EZTV Makes Comeback with New and Improved Site
Written by Ernesto on August 03, 2009After nearly six weeks of downtime, the leading TV-torrent release group EZTV has made a comeback with a completely revamped website. The EZTV team has implemented many new features, including detailed information on every released episode and support for customized RSS feeds to replace the now defunct TVRSS website.
Founded in the spring of 2005, EZTV was an attempt to fill the void left behind by several other TV-torrent sites when they were taken offline. In the years that followed, it grew to become the leading TV-torrent release group, with some of the more popular releases being downloaded up to two million times in just one week.
It therefore came as a surprise to many that the site went blank this June. At first rumors surfaced that the site was shut down through legal action, but in reality EZTV was busy transferring the servers to a new location, and working on implementing several new features while they were at it.
EZTV’s Novaking told TorrentFreak that downtime was initially caused by hardware problems, but they decided to take advantage of the situation and relocate all hardware to a new datacenter while implementing several new features.
“It was hard to work on the new features while the site was operational, as I don’t get enough hours in the day to maintain and code a new one,” Novaking told TorrentFreak, explaining why the downtime took longer than expected.
The wait is over though. Today the site has returned with more features than ever before. Aside from getting the forums back online, EZTV now dedicates a full page to each released episode, with download statistics, a sample of the release and several download mirrors.
EZTV’s new episode page
In addition to these episode pages, all the TV shows now have their own page as well as a user generated show rating, a description of the show and related news items and general information.
On top of the changes in the site’s functionality, EZTV has also switched to using the OpenBitTorrent tracker instead of those of The Pirate Bay. “That was a pretty easy decision,” Novaking told us. “With the current sale of TPB it would only be a matter of time before we couldn’t use it anyways, so we made the switch before that happened.
As if that’s not enough good news already, there is even more for TV-torrent addicts. Coinciding with the relaunch of its site, EZTV is launching a replacement for TVRSS, a site where users could generate custom made RSS feeds for their favorite TV-shows.
The new site, named ezRSS, has the same functionality as the TVRSS website that was taken down two months ago, and is compatible with all BitTorrent clients that support RSS downloads.
Novaking said that ezRSS is one of features he’s most excited about, although it’s still uncertain if it will be able to handle the stream of new users without any significant problems. “I’m hoping our servers can handle the load,” he said.
There will be plenty of interest, that’s for sure.
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Your time has come too
Welcome back EZ!
We certainly missed you!
lol, wow they revamp the site… for what? eztv uses tpb tracker for 90% of the torrents, the same tracker that is going to be a honeypot after the sale.
Once again, torrentfreak reports ONLY on public sites. You do know there are news worthy stories about privite sites…(besides OiNK) right?
Makes me wonder if the staff here even have access to privite sites, want an invite? lol
what is the web address for the new EZTV, is it a pay site?
hey nice
Ya era hora.
#3 Anonymous = Fail
TPB servers are now called OpenBitTorrent… so stop yapping about it! TPB is just an indexer now!… or was!… or whatever!
Good to hear they’re back!
I’ll just have to wait for my provider to refresh those DNS’s!
EZTV and OBT FTW!
#3, EPIC FAIL.
eztv.it looks great for tv stuff, i will use it. for everything i use torrentroot.com
i still cannot get EZTV ive done what it said flushing dns and pinging EZTV but still the same message HELP please
LOL Looks like the same old shit!
If your ISP hasn’t updated it DNS records yey, you can use http://ezrss.it/feed/ for now.
Any better solutions?
Wait a couple of days it maybe that your ISP or your DNS server didn’t update the new address yet.
By the way you are using the normal site or the SSL one? the only difference is the normal one starts with “http” and the SSL one starts with “https” if it is the SSL you will have to download the certificates again.
eztv.it
For those who can’t access just yet for some reason or another there is twitter LoL
http://twitter.com/eztv_it
openDNS already updated their servers so people using it will be able to access the site without problems.
http://www.opendns.com/
Just follow the intructions on how to configure the DNS on your OS and you are gold.
Nice with ezRSS, I was hoping something like that would return…
Or just use http://www1.se.eztv.se/
Other Adress, same Site.
More than a month of downtime really sucked, but now they’re back and sexier than ever!
lol @3, no wonder they stayed anon, foo!
@18 thanks MuhKuh the wait is over!!!
Hurrah for EZTV!! I dont even download that many TV shows but EZTV is the king shit of that shit.
3=fail but he had a point, theirs hardly any storys about private trackers…and NO private trackers “low profile” aproach is not a valid reason not to talk about them, it not like you have to be sherlock to find out about the “private scene” sites.
Everyone from TPB users to the RIAA knows…
Awesome! Can’t wait to check out the site. Looks promising. Greetings from Myrtle Beach, South Carolina!
3=fail but he had a point, theirs hardly any storys about private trackers…and NO, private trackers “low profile” aproach is not a valid reason not to talk about them, it not like you have to be sherlock to find out about the “private scene” sites.
Everyone from TPB users to the RIAA knows…
Their intentions are the best, but the new login system is awful. I keep being logged out for no apparent reason, no matter which browser I use, so I can’t use the new features.
But it’s good to see they reopened the forums, although it’s still very simple, so it’s easy to become a mess and be closed again.
@Wesley, the session time limit must be misconfigured.
And YEAH!… 3 minutes ago it stated to load properly… 5 minutes ago was still the same page.
So wait… typically, each ISP does a DNS refresh in 24h.
Yep, it is “EZ” which is why it’s probabaly so popular with it’s users. Going out to the store and buying something would take effort.
Yeah I love you EZTV and we have missed you alot
The eztv site is still lame, i’ll just keep following them on tpb :P
shame their logo still looks like it was designed by a 4 year old with some crayons! PLEASE update it :)
Great one EZTV, was starting to worry you guys were going to down for a good while!
Thanks for the extra editions
EZTV are not a release group, they are the same as other torrent sites. They just add their eztv tag to scene releases
The new site layout SUCKS! It’s cramped as they shrunk the width size. What the hell for?
And the login info isn’t accepted anymore… tried using the same password as always and it wont accept and of course you can’t reset your login password b/c you don’t need email to register.
FAIL FAIL FAIL!!!
5 weeks was absolutely ridiculous and embarrassing.
#34 anon
but their rsses have been updating the whole tiem :/
i never even go to their website, just autodl
this: “EZTV are not a release group, they are the same as other torrent sites. They just add their eztv tag to scene releases”
they are a distribution group at best
oh look its even in their faq lol
“eztv caps no shows, it is a distribution group only. The shows are capped by other
release groups over whom eztv has no control (or communication).”
glorified seeders, hahaaa
Good stuff, EZTV, though it felt like 10,000 years you were offline. ;)
THANK FRACK! welcome back lads….. all i can say is “you dont realise what you got, till its gone”
EZTV is a simple php/mysql delivery system.
The fact that they were down for over a month and had to relaunch means they had no backup and was a total lost.
A simple 200mb backup would save the day and relaunch on any cheap host of their choice within days.
NovaKing has always been arrogant, so it was fun seeing them make rookie mistakes.
Lol, bunch of noobs.
There is a cancer in torrents, it us called ‘haters’
These people do nothing for the community but simply spend their time attacking the efforts of others.
Cut them out and burn them, they make me sick
yo Reventon,u speak the truth.
@38
“glorified seeders”
Indeed. They deserve some glory. What’s the point of capping and releasing if there is no distribution? EZTV is where I go to find stuff. I don’t want to dig around in the dungeons of the Internet to find stuff directly from intentionally obscure release groups. I have better things to do with my time. A major distribution site is both a necessary component of the total system, and worthy of praise.
Yeah….Kill them all with fire..
@41
Fail.
They moved to a new datacenter. Physically ordering new servers and having them delivered.
It’s better to be thought an idiot, than open your mouth and remove all doubt.
To those talking about private sites…
Maybe, just maybe, they don’t bother referring to private sites as that would merely be spamming advertising for those “closed” communities.
If you are a member, good for you, i am too on some of the best, doesn’t mean jack to the uninvited masses, and reporting on crap that has little bearing for most of them would be a complete waste of everyone’s time.
please help i cant acess the new eztv site.
I could get on last night but all I now get is “403 – Forbidden”
Just go to tvrss.net … it autoforwards
Wow! You would have thought that if it was sooooooo easy to create such a website, all these whiners would have done it already! All talk, and absolutely no action. Pathetic.
Ignore these idiots, EZTV. You’ve done a fantastic job, guys. Thanks for all your time and effort.
How to make your own website in a beat tutorial LoL
- Download Qemu or any other virtual machine that you like.
- Download Xampp or any other ready LAMP that you like.
- Download Joomla or any other content manager that you like.
- Download GIT or your preferred digital document manager.
Use your text editor of preference to code HTML, CSS, javascript and put it in your Joomla LoL
Now that people know how to make a webserver and say it is easy please do backup EZTV and show it to us how easy it is LoL
@46
rofl, only noobs takes 5 weeks downtime to move a site as simple as eztv
eztv is run by noobs
and you know jack shit
/me hands .neo.styles|nvDX the nobel prize for finally figuring out that downloading is easier then going to some stupid store with a very limited selection
PS. Dear .neo.styles|nvDX, when was the last time you went to a store and bought an episode of a tv show exactly?
Haha EPIC FAIL goes to EZTV DNS admins and their huge TTL :-D
@44
word
I dont know about “improved”, since there is still a lag of a few hours between when torrents appear on the main sites and when they appear on eztv.
Frankly with all the time using sites like mininova I see no reason to go back to somthing that takes longer to post torrents.
Seeing so many people bitching, whining and hating only shows to everyone they´re fools who don´t know what they´re talking about, eztv is the best website for tv content distribution and it really makes me sad to see so many stupidity and childlike complains in these posts…
It´s this kinda shit that makes all of us look bad.. no respect for these fools. You guys know who you are.
long life to eztv…
None the less, eztv stoped working for me 24h ago, for no reason, I guess it will be back later – or it wont.. there is no news related to it anywhere :/
Same here, unable to access EZTV or Piratebay within the last 12 hours.
I was able to access eztv yesterday, why can’t I do so now…?>
my system just times out when i try?
I thought it was weird too.. google sent me here.. guess eztv and pirate are offline? dns works, but .. servers are gone?
same here. can’t access
ARMAGEDON!!!
Same here tho, eztv n tpg are not accessible.
Humm, they go offline and then come back long after they were suposed too with enough cash to buy new servers and space.
Its kinda like they found a way to suddenly get cash, like say, offering to share downloaders info with the IP holders?
@ 66 smith
get that tinfoil hat off man…..
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