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A new comer in the SuprBay forums started a new search engine called SeedNova. The site looks like it is in it’s infant stage but looks like it has potential. It is using AJAX to return search queries and returns them on the fly. As far as I can see, it is extremely fast and can see some benefits to using it. Check it out.

Currently only mininova.org is indexed but it’s said that others like The Pirate Bay and ISOHUNT will soon be indexed as well. I will keep track and post updates later.

Sucks how I missed Mother’s day to write this but how good of a present would pirated material be? Maybe good.

Imagine, receiving an external HD or a CD case full of DVDs? Carefully structured or labeled for you to be able to quickly and easily browse through. On top of that, you have a spare external HD now!

Now, for you next gift to a friends birth day or Christmas, put in that extra care and give him what he/she really wants. I guarantee that your friend will be satisfied.

Other Occasions to Consider

• Anniversary / Valentines Day: Fill it with all your partner’s favorite romantic movies or music. Throw in some pictures while you’re at it. Forget the mixed cds and picture books. Go digital!
• Thanks Giving: Who really gives away presents on this day? Well, I think it’s a perfect day to give thanks through Pirated materials.
• Any Other Occasions?: Please comment. I would like to hear your ideas.

In the first two weeks of Pirater’s Blog’s opening, we’ve explored various tools and methods one can use to pirate. Today I will spill out the various sources available for you to take advantages of those tools and methods. I’d have to say that the last two links have been most useful to me. I highly suggest that you check them out.

This list will be updated regularly and shared with everyone as I find more. If there are other links that you would like to recommend, please share them with us. We would very much appreciate them.

Torrent Sources

1. The Pirate Bay - Great overall tracker
2. ISO Hunt - Another great overall tracker
3. Box Torrents - Great anime tracker
4. You Torrents - Searches through many torrent sites.

P2P Networks

1. eDonkey - Largest P2P network. Check out www.sharethefiles.com with this one.
2. Limewire - Another large P2P network. Known for it’s mp3 directory.

Video Streaming Sites

1. You Tube - Largest Video Streaming website in the world
2. Veoh - Unrestricted video streaming website. Has many movies and animes.
3. Meta Cafe - Like You Tube but more international.
4. You Porn - Free Adult Video Stream. So you don’t have to wait for your porn.
5. Red Porn - Another Free Adult Video Stream

Remember back in the early 90’s? Yea, me neither. But I really remember wanting a Neo-Geo console. Unfortunately my parents weren’t going to spoil me with a $400 console and spend $100 for each game.

Great news! The Neo-Geo emulator has been ported to the Nintendo DS! I know, sounds too good to be true, huh? Nope, absolutely not. The genius behind this amazing creation is Ben Ingram. Despite its recent arrival to the emulation scene, NeoDS build quality is amazingly solid. Most games run at a nice 45/60 frames per second. If you choose to play the games without sound you will get a nearly perfect framerate.

In order to run this marvel creation, you need a development cartridge. You can obtains these from modchip stores online. Nearly all use rely on external memory for storage (MMC, SD, Micro-SD), allowing for cheap and mass storage ^_^. For anyone relatively new to the DS homebrew scene, here is a good place to start. Extensive news and reviews of hardware and the latest home creation.

The latest build of NeoDS is 0.1.1a, released on March 6. It is only its third release. I cannot express how much I am impressed by this! Anyway, hit the link on the bottom, check out his website, try out the latest version if you have a development flash cartridge, and–importantly–show some support!

Link

Here’s a clip of the emulator running King of Fighters 2000. ^_^

At Pirater’s Blog, we love all things hacked and modded. Today, I would like to introduce you to hacked router firmwares and what it can do for you. This is completely legal and safe (ish)–I say this because installing non-supported software will void manufacturer warranty. However, if you have an old router lying around or you just feel like living life on the edge (LOL, not), this guide will introduce you briefly about the possibilities and also available options when it comes to hacking your router.

So why would you want to risk voiding warranty and do such a thing? Well, third party firmwares offers more options than the original software provided by the manufacturer. For one, you have the ability to adjust wifi signal–a nice feature for anyone looking to get better connectivity around the house without spending more money on a new router or buying booster antenna. Another, is the extensive control over bandwidth. With all of these 3rd-party firmwares, you are provided with a far superior QoS manager than the one provided by the manufacturer’s firmware. This allows the user to create extensive rules to allocate bandwidth appropriately for certain services, like bittorrent, or gaming. Overall, these 3rd-party firmwares add flexibility and provide more tools at your disposal to manage your internet.

There are many 3rd-party providers to pick from (DD-wrt, HyperWRT, Sveasoft’s Alchemy ($20 annual membership), Tomato, and variants. Out of all of these, DD-wrt is perhaps one of the most popular, offering a plethora of features, and supports an extensive list of brands. With DD-wrt, you get features like Chillspot, IPv6, OpenVPN, SSH, better UPnP support, MMC/SD Cards (hardware modding necessary), VOIP, and so on. For the sake of simplicity, well, more like I’m too lazy to write a guide for each firmware; I will stick to DD-wrt.

The howto…

Getting these firmware on your router is extremely simple. To get started, you need to see if your device is supported by one of these firmwares. DD-wrt provides a list for you to check. Once you have confirmed that your device is supported, you need to download the appropriate firmware version.

IMPORTANT: (You need to be connected physically to the router, wireless connection will not work and will brick your router).

1. Find your Default Gateway address to access the firmware. (Windows users use ipconfig /all in the command prompt, linux and mac users can use ifconfig -a in the terminal).

2. Open your browser and point to the Gateway address (i.e. 192.168.1.1) and enter the username and password. Unless you have changed it, refer to the manual or manufacturer’s website for the default access information.

3. Go into the firmware upgrade option. For most routers, it will be under the Administration menu; such a case applies to Linksys routers. Some router will have its own menu. It should not be hard to locate. Once you do, hit Browse… and point to the firmware file (*.bin) you had extracted from the archive and proceed with the upgrade. It usually take about 5 minutes to do the upgrade. (NEVER CLOSE YOUR BROWSER OR INTERRUPT THE CONNECTION AT THIS TIME). If something went wrong with the upgrade, linksysinfo is the best place to get some help on how to unbrick the router.

Once upgraded, point your browser to 192.168.1.1, as this is the Gateway address used by DD-wrt. The default login information is username: root // password: admin.

The initial setup…

1. Go to Basic and setup your internet account information. If you are using cable or have internet that doesn’t require a login then skip this part. However, if your internet uses PPPoE, then you will have to enter your login information. To this, inside the Basic tab, select the connection type from automatic to PPoE, input your user name and password and hit save.

Increase WiFI signal…

To increase your signal, select Wireless from the menu tab, then click on Advanced Settings, then find Xmit Power. DD-Wrt recommends 70. However, you can change to whatever is suited for you. Remember that if you increase the signal over 70, more stress will be put on the router and this may potentially decrease the life of the router.

Automatically block unwanted ads websites and ad trackers…

Double-click and other websites are advertisement companies. By blocking these you can get rid of most of the garbage on your screen and also minimize your chance of contracting adwares and malwares. To do this you need to create a startup script. Follow this guide to get started. Inside the startup script you need to paste this code:

logger WAN UP Script Executing
sleep 5
test -s /tmp/dlhosts
if [ $? == 1 ] ; then
    echo -e “#!/bin/sh\nwget -O - http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.txt | grep 127.0.0.1 | sed -e ‘2,\$s/127.0.0.1/0.0.0.0/g’ -e ’s/[[:space:]]*#.*$//’ > /etc/hosts\nlogger DOWNLOADED http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.txt\nkillall -1 dnsmasq” > /tmp/dlhosts
    chmod 777 /tmp/dlhosts
    /tmp/dlhosts
fi
cru a Gethosts “45 23 * * 5 /tmp/dlhosts”

This tells the router to automatically download a list of known adtrackers and malware sites and redirects any client request of these sites to 127.0.0.1, which effectively blocks them from being accessed on your network. A thread regarding this script, which contains the code used above can be found in the linksysinfo forum (link).

Edonkey network is one of the oldest and largest file sharing network available. The biggest advantage that edonkey has over torrents is the availability of older, rarer, files. Also, the client program features a search function so you can search for your files right off the program. You can even specify your search to specific criteria like for videos, audio files, documents, even archive files.

Disadvantages of using the edonkey network is that it can be a bit slow in regards to downloads. Although it offers unlimited download speed as long as you upload 10 kb/sec, it is not ideal for single file downloads. The best way to utilize the power of the edonkey network is to queue up a large number of files. For instance, let us say that I want to download a whole TV series. I would not just select one episode to download at a time but rather the whole season. Queuing up as many files as possible increases the global download rate.

There are many different edonkey client software you can use. I personally recommend using the emule software which you can get for free here. You can get all the tech support you need to get your client running in the emule website. They even offer tech support for various router problems you may have regarding port forwarding.

Another neat feature that the edonkey network offers is the ability to queue up a file you want just by clicking on a link on a site. For instance, sharethefiles.com offers literally hundreds of pages of links to various files found in the edonkey network. Check out the site for yourself and see the millions of files available. Search the forum for the files you want and simply click on the link to queue it up on your edonkey client.

There are pros and cons to all file sharing networks. The edonkey network has its own share of flaws but the file availability and the ability to queue up hundreds of files at once makes it one of the most powerful file sharing networks available today.

Why stream? As mentioned above, for instant satisfaction. Yes, the quality of the video isn’t going to be as high, and yes, you’d probably rather wait for the download. But for those special occasions when you do not want to wait, why not keep the option open.

As a pirater, you’ll most likely have enough content to entertain yourself for weeks. However in situations where you weren’t prepared and you just can’t wait for a download to complete, streaming is a great option. For me, this mostly occurs when I finish a TV series and I just have to start the next. So where’s a great place to stream?

You Tube? Yes, if want to be bombarded with kids and amateur script makers. I’m not saying YouTube is a bad place to go but that they may not have what you are looking for. YouTube being as large as it is, are very strict on copy righted materials. Pirated content is very rare and it won’t be up much longer if it is.

Luckily for us, YouTube isn’t the only island in the world. Check out www.veoh.com. They will host full movies and as far as I know, I have not seen them take any content down. Just as an example, search for, “The Great Debater” on veoh. If you haven’t watched it, enjoy… Veoh does require you to download their application to watch anything longer than 20 or 25 minutes. The application has been tested for spyware / malware and it will not harm your system. It’s actually a pretty decent application.

Welcome back mate. If you are new to pirating, you need to go through my guide below before you can join me on my journey. Experience it first hand and understand why we pirate. I guarantee that you will understand.

To become a pirate in the digital world, the only requirements are that you have a ship (Internet) to take you across the world wide web and bring you back the data that you want. Once you have the ship, the tools and sources can be acquired through the web. I will provide the maps and tools for you go and open your first chest.

Torrent Download

What is a torrent and what does it mean to download a torrent? Torrent is the latest P2P Sharing technology that is allowing pirates to share data easily and massively. Torrents automatically link you to other people with the information in which you download from. Basically, instead of downloading from a central source, you download from a distributed network of sources.

Requirements

1. Internet: Since you are reading this, I’m assuming you have access to an internet. However, I hope that you have access to hi-speed internet, as this excersize may otherwise be painful. If not anything else, if you haven’t switched to hi-speed internet yet, the reason to pirate will.
2. Application: uTorrent is the best torrent application available. Easy to use, straight to the point user interface and utilizes small amounts of system resources. You can download uTorrent by going to utorrent.com/download.php and clicking on the download link.

Now the fun and easy part.

The Pirate Bay

The Pirate Bay is the most notorious website out their known for it’s massive amount of torrent availability. Here you can practically find anything that you’d want. You do not even need to know what you are looking for. The site provides you with a directory list of all the different categories and even gives you the top 100 hot items for each of those categories.

As a starter, I recommend you click on the TOP 100 link located next to the search bar. Browse through where ever your heart takes you. When an item finds your interest, just click on it and download the torrent. I recommend downloading a torrent with higher “seed” counts.

Now all you have to do is wait for uTorrent to extract and share for you. uTorrent will by itself, connect you to others, and download and share for you. Once completed, enjoy your first pirated experience.

How does it feel?

Please comment on questions and your experience.

and it is open for everyone to take. As long as you have a ship that can swim in the waters of the Internet, the chests are only a click away. All you need are the tools and treasure maps to extract them. Treasures of the digital world are unlimited and unlike the old days, pirates of the digital world gain wealth by sharing their treasures.