Here are the winners from our Hotfile & Rlslog Giveaway. Congratulations to all of them! We will send them e-mails & instructions how to activate their premium accounts. Winners don’t forget to check your e-mails Expect new giveaway soon (very soon)

List of the winners below:

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Giveaway CLOSED. For further information read THIS post. Winners will be announced there.

Finally we have something good for our Rlslog visitors/users/fans. You are thinking what? A giveaway! Hotfile will give prizes to our luckiest visitors. We are planing to give 10 Hotfile premium accounts. Anyone can participate. You need to do only 2 steps mentioned below. Giveaway will be open only for 3 days to enter so dig in right away.

P.S. Expect more giveaways in the future.

Hotfile
You know everything about Hotfile, but let we remind you. Hotfile is a one click file hosting -sharing site which we at Rlslog like to use. They have great uploading file size limit (up to 400 MB per file even as free user), earn & affiliate program, awesome good deals on premium account pricing and more. Hotfile grows in users & popularity every day. Some of the benefits you get as Premium Member:

How to participate:

First step:
You need to have a Hotfile account to enter this Giveaway. If you already have a Hotfile account you can use that one, if you don’t - register account by clicking on this link.
When you’re done send us your Hotfile username on this e-mail: Giveaway closed!

Second step:
That’s it! Sit and wait… You have entered in Rlslog’s Giveaway. We wish you best of luck!
After 3 days (starting from today) we will accept no entries anymore, and winners will be picked randomly - means, anyone have equal chances to win. Giveaway will be closed on 26.06.09′.

Prizes:

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• Automating IP changes for filehosting downloads
• Print Screen Application
• Problems with new ESET SS 4.0.314
• XP and W7 dual boot
• 360 games on Hard Drive question
• Windows 7 RC Released
• For RLSLog’s IE users.
• Virtual Cdrom for Windows 7
• vista sp1 resources
• Corrupted Word Document
• Windows 7 Build 7048

• Whats your internet speed?

• Zune HD announced!! HD Radio, Web Broswer, More!!
• Windows 7 Shipping Sept/Oct
• Microsoft GIVES you an applet to bypass their WGA!
• Wolfram | Alpha it’s alive!
• RIAA sued for Fraud
• End of the Road for Internet Explorer?

• Jailbreaking the iPod Touch 2G
• NVIDIA’s GeForce GTX 285 coming to Macs in June
• Should I buy an iPhone?
• Which iPod do you own?

• 25 New Private Torrent Trackers
• Torrent Invites/Shares

• Assassin’s Creed 2 Covers
• Show us your Desktop!
• RLSLOG in Russin
• SOTM no.3 ENTRIES

• Name That Movie
• Name That Game
• Other Sites You Use For Downloading
• Drink and drive!
• Downloading risk in United Arab Emirates

• Official English Premier League Thread
• The best goal ever scored

• Angry passerby pushes suicidal man from bridge.
• Swapping files is fair use
• Fast & Furious Skyline stolen from Hollywood garage
• The 10-year-old child star of Slumdog Millionaire ordered out of his home.
• Upcoming Movie Trailers

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It has been a while since we done one of these. A few days ago we upgraded our forum software to the latest IPB, making it a more fun and better experience for you.If you haven’t visited the forums for a while take a look and join in! We got a big community where you can have fun and interact with each other.

• Useful Applications after Reformating
• Gaming News
• Gaming Calender 2009
• Christian Bale as you have never heard him before.
• Useful Applications after Reformating
• XP and W7 dual boot
• Male or Female. What are you?
• The Last Watched Movie
• End of the Road for Internet Explorer?
• Massive Layoffs Hit The RIAA
• Whats your internet speed?
• GTA IV - Official Patch 1.3
• New French Internet Law
• TorrentLeech no longer Safe?
• Anti-Piracy Group ‘BayTSP’ Infiltrates TorrentLeech.org
• Rapidshare Shares Uploader Info with Rights Holders
• Rapidshare Vs Megashares = Expensive Vs Slow
• HD-Bits.ro 10GB accumulated traffic / month.
• 360 games on Hard Drive question
• Best W7 build?
• Best ip-scrambler?
• iPod, iPhones Banned in Bill Gates’ Family
• Sony losing about $40 on each PS3
• SCEA’s Seybold promises one of Sony’s ‘most aggressive marketing plans’ for PS3
• Preserved corpses having sex exhibition opens in Germany
• The Pirate bay trial (updated)
• The best goal ever scored
• Name That Game
• Name That Movie
• Drink and drive!

We’ve got heaps of other threads and posts available. All new registrations must be approved by our staff, so estimated time will be within 15 minutes.

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As most of you noticed, RLSLOG has been kind of upside down, or to be more exact, right to left. Of course this was a small April Fool’s joke. We had prepared something much bigger but it failed at the very last second because of someone else who was involved.

Anyway, I believe you enjoyed enough of right-to-left reading so I switched the design back to original. To have some more fun, I compiled this list of nice pranks created by other websites.

April Fool’s Day list:

• YouTube - completely reverted site including videos. If you remove flip=1 from URL, it goes back to normal design.
• Njection - BBC to stream Top Gun for free on Hulu
• Smashing Magazine - Internet Explorer 8.1 code name “Eagle Eyes” released
• Google gBall - football ball with built-in GPS module and motion sensor
• ThePirateBay - Warner Bros bought Pirate Bay
• Guardian - British newspaper stops print version and conitnues only on Twitter
• Woot - bag of crap for $3 and $1,000,000 shipping
• Gmail - new Auto-response feature
• Reddit - new “Digg-like” design, renamed to Reddigg
• BBC - Earth population exceeds limits
• KegWorks - Insta-beer - just add water
• Sitepoint - internet reboots today at 11.59 UTC

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The tough month of January meant some downtime and legal problems for RLSLOG, but that’s all history, we are running fine and the site is stable now. The problem is, we missed the day of RLSLOG’s 3rd Birthday! And although I could easily skip this and wait for next year, it’s a great chance to give away some cool prizes to you, our readers… and I am sure you don’t want to miss that either.

Our last Birthday competition was quite a success with prizes worth few thousand dollars. All you had to was send an original piece of graphic with RLSLOG theme and if your entry was good enough, you had a chance to win some nice prizes. I won’t uncover what you will need to do in order to win yet, but I can promise you some cool prizes once again.

We will sponsor and offer numerous prizes, but the biggest part relies upon you. If you have something to offer, we would be really happy if you could sponsor our 3rd Birthday Competition with a nice prize. You can submit basically anything including Premium download accounts (Rapidshare, Megaupload, …), webhosting, domain names, gift certificates, membership accounts, cash (PayPal), software or hardware (you need to be able to ship it worldwide though). If you have something to offer, don’t wait any longer and send us an email with more details!

You probably ask what you will get in return. Well, we will mention you here at Releaselog in a special post, together with URL and description you provide. Each sponsor will be mentioned at least two times, in two separate posts. Considering the massive readership we have, I can guarantee you at least few thousand visitors sent to your website. This is also a great chance to do some branding and spread the word about your service through our site. The deadline for sponsorship offers is Friday 13 - the competition will start on the following weekend. Looking forward to the next weekend!

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Facebook is becoming the real hit all over the world and that was the reason why I created a special group there. It’s called RLSLOG Fanclub and it’s obviously made for all fans and readers of our site. There are currently 42 members and I assume that few hours after this post, this number will skyrocket to hundreds. We don’t really have any big plans with that group, it’s just a small gig to unite all fans of Releaselog. And if I already write about social networks, you might also appreciate our Twitter feed, which works basically as RSS feed, informing about all posts right after they got published on the site.

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• Windows 7 Build 7022 Screenshots (legit)
• G9 vs Lachesis
• User Gallery - Home Theater System
• Super Hi-Vision 4320p
• Windows 7: DRM Nightmare!
• Microsoft announce it plans to open its own stores.
• Panasonic open 3D Blu-ray labs
• Google Maps photographer hits baby deer!
• PlayStation 2 most played console of 2008
• GeForce GTS 240 Reference PCB Schematics Surface
• Leaked Photos of Next Generation iPhone?
• Article: Exploiting Peer-to-Peer Networking
• The ‘Official’ Man Utd Supporters Thread
• Myp2p.eu pending legal proceedings.
• Which X-men character would you like to be if you got the chance?
• The Pirate bay trial (updated)
• Nasa Satellite crashes after launch.
• 3 men of a maximum security prison resign after breakout
• Actor with ‘Wrestler’ drug role accused of dealing steroids
• Woman gives birth to octuplets (8)
• Remains of 5 year old found in stomach of Crocodile
• Baby-faced boy Alfie Patten is father at 13
• How to install Warhammer_40000_Dawn_of_War_2-rFORCE
• How to install & play F.E.A.R Project Origin
• Quake Live Beta Opening Next Week
• Lost Planet 2 Officially Announced
• Oscars 2009 Results
• 2009 Movie Trailers - YoutubeHD

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I finally finished the move of RLSLOG to new servers. You could have noticed few posts about this a week or two ago, but we couldn’t finish it until now due to certain hardware issues. The server move should result in better loading speed of Releaselog and more stability. We changed our hosting provider and upgraded hardware as well. The new host also has much better support and seems to be less ignorant about takedown requests. For all you tech geeks, our current setup is:

HTTP Server
Quad Core Xeon X3320, 2.5GHz, 2×3MB, 1333FSB
4GB (2×2GB Dual Rank DIMMs) 667MHz
500 GB SATA2 HDD

SQL Server
PE R200 Dual Core Xeon 3065 (2.33GHz, 4MB, 1333MHz FSB)
4GB (2×2GB Dual Rank DIMMs) 667MHz
500 GB SATA2 HDD

+ terabytes of bandwith…

This is a significant upgrade of both servers from our previous Core2Duo and Athlon X2 setup. The new servers might need a bit of tweaking and finetuning but it’s already much faster, as the hardware performance almost doubled with the new setup. Enjoy it!

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[BUMPED Due to forum and site going offline, updated list.] Well it’s been a while since we have done one of these. The two weeks were pretty rough for RLSLOG after we were offline and the forums been acting up. It has been a bit more than a month since we launched the forums and it has been a very fast growing community. The forum also played a big role in informing you about the latest releases when the main site was down. We have also gotten heaps of new fresh members and reached 20k posts, not bad for a month. We are soon to be upgraded to the latest version of our forums software, making your experience better in many ways. We have also added two new sections. The first one is for all the Apple fans and users. The second is News and Current Affairs, where you could discuss all the latest stories and what’s going around in the world.

Discussions

• Optimze 1080p video for Youtube upload
• 22 year-old female selling her virginity at auction
• Google Search Tips
• Make the most of an ADSL2+ connection
• Ubuntu Or Vista Or Windows 7 Or Xp
• Google Gdrive
• PS3 vs PC
• Ubisoft: New Consoles Coming 2011, 2012
• Western Digital to Unveil 2 TB HDD
• “Hunting aXXo”
• Should I buy an iPhone?
• best p2p software for mac?
• English Premier League
• India plans ‘10 dollar’ Laptops
  
• NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250 to Make Its Debut
• Apple teams up with Adobe for iPhone Flash
• Rubik’s Cube inventor is back with Rubik’s 360
• ISP Eircom Capitulates to IRMA - disconnect ‘pirates’
• Christian Bale goes crazy
  

Releases

• 2009 Movie Calender (A must read)
• The Opensource/Freeware Game Topic
• What’s your most anticipated movie for 2009
• Lost
• Gears of War trilogy in the works.
• The Torrent Scene Jargon Language
• Microsoft.Windows.7.Beta.1.Build.7000.x86.DVD.REPACK-WinBeta
• Burnout Paradise - CRASHING on launch
• Godfather 2 Delayed
• 3 New Need For Speed Titles Scheduled For This Year
• Uncracked Gears Of War For PC Is Not Working Anymore

Any problems or questions about the forums please email forum.rlslog.v2@gmail.com

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As you probably just noticed, I’ve (finally) added a new category called  BDRip. BDRip has been introduced to the scene some time ago, and some of you might remember the release by DMT for Zack And Miri Make A Porno. This movie was first released as a BDRip, and later we received the  traditional DVDRip.

But what is BDRip and why should I care?

First of all, you probably noticed that lately Blu Ray versions are being released before the actual DVDRip popped up. Groups like DMT saw that and released a ‘BDRip’ version of that movie. BDRip is basically just the same thing as a DVDRip, but it uses the Blu Ray as source. BDRip also uses the Xvid codec, and has the same rules concerning multiple CD’s.

You should ‘care’ about this since the quality is a bit better and you can watch the movie most of the time earlier. DMT proposed the following rules:

-BluRay may be used as source only if no DVDRip has already been released.
-Such releases must be tagged .BDRip.
-Reencoding xvids using x264 releases is strictly forbidden.
-BDRip dupes DVDRip, and vice versa, DVDRip dupes BDRip.

Some examples so you can compare:

Screenshots compared:

Traditional DVDRip

New BDRip

Video samples compared
Zack And Miri Make A Porno BDRIP XviD-DMT

Zack.And.Miri.Make.A.Porno.2008.DVDRip.XviD-COCAIN

So I hope you like my idea of bringing you BDRips. Let’s hope other scene groups will follow and that the scene rules get updated:) . Have a nice day.

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Just a quick note to let you know RLSLOG is online again after cca 24 hour downtime. The reason was much more simple this time, we performed a server upgrade, updated to latest kernel and this version was little problematic as it didn’t like our hardware/network card, so there had to be some changes made.

By the way, we know about the DVDRiP/Music Albums links problem, it’s caused by our caching software and we work with the developer of it on a fix. You don’t have to send any more emails about that issue. Thanks.

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Wow. So we are back online and in full strength again. But it was a long fight. I will disclose few details and what was really going on from my point of view. It’s been a really unusual downtime, considering both its reason and its length. But let’s start from the beginning.

Almost a week ago, we (and many others) received a takedown request from infamous Web Sherrif. The release in question was Franz Ferdinand’s new album Tonight. That itself is a delicate case: Franz Ferdinand is a Scottish band which encouraged piracy few years ago. They specifically mentioned Limewire and other p2p applications and offered few tracks for free. They also said they themselves download illegal stuff from internet. Now, they (or their distributor Domino Records ot be exact) hire Web Sherrif to pursue everyone who would want to share their newest leaked album. Talk about turnaround.

This takedown request from Web Sherrif was a one big joke from the very beginning. As you probably know, we do not host any content on our servers and we do not offer anything for download. Therefore we have nothing to remove. We only inform about new releases and eventually link to third party servers where you can download them (the very same thing Google does and noone cares). Most of the download links is posted by our readers anyway. The quote in the request ("your web-site has published and is digitally distributing“) is therefore completely false. We didn’t publish anything. We just wrote about it.

Another funny thing about the takedown notice was they couldn’t even write our URL properly. They wrote "rslog.net" instead of our proper URL, so I replied to them I don’t own this website. They didn’t get it and stepped up their idocy: "you must also arrange for the following apology to be published on the relevant page of the site for a period of seven (7) days :“RSLOG wishes to apologies to Franz Ferdinand, Domino Records and Web Sheriff for the disruption caused to their sales, marketing and promotion plans by our publishing of pirate file details relating to the unreleased album “Tonight”.”

I couldn’t help myself but reply in a similarly stupid manner: “Thanks for good laugh. once again, learn to type instead of drinking brandy in saloon. Yours Old Shaterhand." This was the very last piece of communication we had with Web Sherrif. I guess they got pissed and realized this won’t really work. So they moved to higher level. They contacted our host, which kindly asked us to remove download links from the article, which we really did (Google Cache). One would think this is the end of the story.

But it wasn’t. Instead, suddenly our website stopped working. It came like a complete surprise with no explanation. Of course, I inquired with our host what’s going on, but they seemed to not really care about replying fast. Their usual response time is circa 24 hours and even more during weekends, which is one of the reasons why I’ve been thinking about moving away from them for a long time - but never actually did it. After a day of struggling, they finally replied: Web Sherrif sent the very same request to their bandwidth provider and they, instead of protecting the rights of their customers or analyzing anything, completely shut down the servers and nullrouted the IPs. Fair enough.

So for the rest of the time, I’ve been trying to find out what to do next and instantly started negotiating with different hosting companies about new servers. Don’t be fooled - RLSLOG is terribly huge and I found out almost no hosting is able to have servers for us ready in acceptable time span. The communication was also very scarce because of the weekend and tens of international calls I made didn’t really help. Day after day continued with no replies and no good news. And then, out of sudden, yesterday shortly before midnight, a miracle email came: “Your servers are online.” No explanation, no details, nothing.

This whole thing taught me a few things. For starters, you can’t believe anyone unless you know him personally and even then things may screw up. Second, hosting companies are scared shitless, slow with replies and don’t really care about their customers, although we didn’t do anything illegal or wrong. Third, it’s always good to have a backup plan (in our case, backup servers ready to host the site in case of something similar happens), because it takes many days before hosting companies set you up with something.

If you take it from the other side, we did our best to get over it. We moved the domain to a temp server to at least inform you what’s going on. We made a private temporary blog and prepared all posts there to have them ready when we get back online. We informed you about new releases at our forums. We mailed Franz Ferdinand and asked them if they are happy now. And we still rock. Thanks everyone who offered me help during the tough time, it was extremely stressful period of time for me. Let’s hope this was the last portion of bad luck in 2009. And let’s hope assholes like Web Sherrif will rot in hell. They deserve it.

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It’s been quite a while since the latest thread picks post so I decided to write a new one now. There’s a great reason to do so as well: we converted the board to different software - legal version of Invision Power Board. The difference in skin is quite huge and we are still finetuning certain details but the forums work in the same way and all posts and users were restored. If you have problems logging in, generate a new password please and enjoy RLSLTALK!

Discussions

• RapidShare Free Download Mgr
• Best Program To Convert AVI To DVD
• How Fast Is Windows 7? Faster Than You Think!
• Usenet Client
• What car do you drive?
• Christiano Ronaldo - World’s best footballer
• How to install DirectX 10 on Windows XP
• Tutorial Burning Xbox 360 Games

Releases

• Adobe Master collection CS4
• Great Games That Don’t Require Great Hardware
• COD6 Modern Warfare 2 Announced??
• Your top 10 bands
• Heavy Rain, best looking graphics ever?

P.S. If you still can’t connect to our Forums, try this trick to make it work again.

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Sorry for the long annoying downtime, forums are back up just the way you left it Enjoy!

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