Category Archives: Tutorials

Seedbox FAQ

The Non-Owner FAQ So you are curious about seedboxes but not sure where to start? This is information collected to help you understand how they work before jumping into the swarm. What is a seedbox? A seedbox is the term for when users of the torrent community use a dedicated server or VPS to increase … Continue reading

How To Cross Seed Safely

Recently some members have been banned for ratio cheating, claiming to have messed up cross seeding. So here’s how to do it, and more importantly, keep your account. The most important section here is section 2. So Section 1(letter here) is about the specific genre, and section 2 is about safety. Section 1() – Cross-Seeding … Continue reading

A Newbie Guide To Using BitTorrent

In the comment section of every torrent site are always the same questions, “How do I install this game?” Or, “Whats an iso file?”  It seems the word on downloading torrents is spreading, but the way to do it isn’t.  This is a step-by-step guide for people who have no idea what to do.  Keep … Continue reading

Security When Using BitTorrent

Today I am going to do a guide on bittorrent paranoia. I have searched far and wide for a “completely safe” solution to bittorent. I have found… there is none. There are different paranoias… discovery by ISP, discovery by MPAA/RIAA, and even discovery by family. I would like to cover a few things to reduce … Continue reading

How To Upload Torrents On What.cd

Almost all torrent-related forums have a thread titled Which tracker is hardest to seed on? or something similar. Across the vast majority of these forums, the same trackers are brought up constantly in these type of threads, one of which is the popular music tracker What.cd. Along with it’s rival Waffles, What was one of … Continue reading

Guide to Seeding & Improving Your Ratio

As i’m sure most of you have experienced, seeding on some of the fast pirate trackers can be difficult and sometimes made even harder by restrictions that they impose on the new people (revtt waiting times comes to mind). so here is a guide to help you guys out, who are having seeding/ration problems, or … Continue reading

Facts You May Not Know About Seedboxes

Maybe you’ve heard the term ‘seedbox’ being used lately but aren’t sure what one is, or maybe you’ve decided to start one but don’t know where to start. the goal of this guide is to familiarize you with the basic steps needed to rent, setup, administer and use a seedbox from start to finish. to … Continue reading

BitTorrent: Protect Your Privacy

Any time you’re making connections to anything outside of your network, security should be a concern, and this is doubly true for users of BitTorrent, who are getting data from all sorts of unknown sources. Here’s how to protect yourself. Encryption One way to help alleviate these problems is to enable encryption for your connections. … Continue reading

How To Get Unlimited Downloads From Rapidshare

If you run into a multi-part file hosted on rapidshare and don’t have/want a premium account. If you’re like me you don’t want to wait all week to download it and you don’t need to. Just click the link to the files and when the Browser window opens in rapidshare click on the link under … Continue reading