Most people are familiar with the Lord's Prayer. Less known is the aXXo prayer, dedicated to the popular DVD ripper that goes by this name. Courtesy of "the_dwarfer", who just started a new religion.

"Tracker Checker" is a nifty little program that automatically checks when private trackers are open for registration. A lot of trackers open their doors occasionally, giving you the opportunity to register without an invite. This program helps you yo find out when.

After a sneak peak and trial run last month, the what.cd team has finally made a semi-public release of the Gazelle tracker and site software, by doing its first large scale roll-out on its own site.

OpenBitTorrent (OBT) and PublicBitTorrent (PBT) are back online today after three weeks of protest. On Sunday we reported that the trackers were planning to come back after a much-needed improvement to the BitTorrent protocol, and they’ve kept their word. Thanks to the improvement, which was coined by Pirate Bay co-founder…