PTP made this announcement, sorry for all who never got in and even more sorry to those who must go someone else now.

We bid you farewell! - posted by Dexter 2 hours and 10 mins ago
Dear PTP Users,

It's sad that it's come to this, but after a long discussion and several days of issues with donations and such, we have decided to close our beloved site forever. We are incredibly saddened that circumstances have come to this, and we cannot begin to say how sorry we are about this. This site has become part of our lives. We've gained friends, some knowledge, and of course a good movie or two. There's no good way to write a goodbye news post, and there's definitely not any part of this we enjoy.

We've been through a lot, as a community, and as staff. We've had our ups, our downs, and we've overcame them all. This, sadly, is something we cannot overcome. We simply cannot afford to push on anymore, and we regret to inform you of this decision that has not come lightly.

We love our community, and we cannot begin to express the thanks we have for all of you in your hard work, support of each other and the site itself, and the countless hours most of you have spent on the site making it the great site it has become.

As one last token of our appreciation, we will be enabling site-wide freeleech and keep the site up until the end of our servers billing cycle. This will be essentially until the end of this month. This may seem small in the grand scheme of things, but it's all we can do at this time. We hope you all understand the sadness that comes with this decision, and know it was something we have not taken lightly. Our userbase is incredible, and we hope you find a home after we're gone.

As said, we are so grateful for all of you, and we hope you can see this from our perspective.

In closing, to our userbase, I personally thank you for everything, and hope you take what you've learned here and utilize it wherever life takes you.


We, the owners, have decided this has proven too much for us personally, and have made this decision with our staff. This decision is final.

PassThePopcorn.me Staff

On a side-note, it may help if you screenshot your profile to help your hunt for other sites.

or not... theres a new owner

It all full of drama

PTP: Now under new management! - posted by Cronus 1 hour and 39 mins ago

Update:

PTP: Now under new management! - posted by Cronus 1 hour and 46 mins ago
Z and Dexter were generous enough to transfer the ownership of the site. Please do not speculate on my identity, I will not confirm or deny anything. I do not want it to become a well-known fact.

With that said, the site-wide freeleech will continue for 48 hours as payment of the staff's appreciation for you sticking with us throughout the site's tumultuous times. http://passthepopcorn.me/static/comm...leys/smile.gif

Please do us a favor, and do not hit-and-run the FL torrents. Staff will be checking for this, and unfortunately disciplining those as necessary.

More details to come!

Update on the new management - posted by Cronus 23 hours and 20 mins ago
There has been much debate on PTP along with other websites' forums as to why I am not revealing my identity. Some are speculating that I am pham or spektormax, others have speculated that I am ashamed of my previous username. Neither of these speculations have any merit. The secrecy is for my own protection -- that is all. The fact is my other identity is too easily connected to my actual name. I wish it wasn't the case, but it is. Before criticizing me any further for not revealing my nick, please consider how many sysops/admins of other 19k+ user torrent sites that you know their true identity. I can't think of any and I think you'd all have trouble thinking of them as well.

Concerning the future of this great site, I am pleased to announce the addition of two new staff members. Both have been actively contributing members of PTP for over a year, and both are well-versed in the community.

Voorhees: Will be joining NolimitZ as a Director. Voorhees has experience as an Administrator and Moderator of a variety of private trackers.

J: Will be joining Remy as a Developer. J has experience with the gazelle code base, and extensive experience with php, mysql, and javascript.

In addition to these new staff members, I am excited to announce the promotion of our 5 Torrent Specialists to Assistant Director. We (as staff) have decided to do away with the Torrent Specialist position as we feel it is unnecessary. Given that Elites and above already have the ability to edit all torrents and we already count on you guys to assist us with the moderation duties (and this is where we plan to find any new staff members...) we thought we would take it one step further and give our Torrent Specialist's the privileges required to help out the class above them.

The additional Assistant Directors will help us deal with the large number of users who have problems with their accounts and should be extremely helpful in lowering Staff response time to any and all issues.

Lastly, I want to assure you all that staff is hard at work looking into methods for donations and long-term sustainability of PTP. We thank you for your suggestions, and we are considering all options. Be assured that we will not rest until we find the perfect solution for the long-term success of this tracker.