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Upload files using torrents to your personal space with Put.io
- obilgic 14y agoGreat landing page.
- salman89 14y agoSo what happens when copyright holders see a bunch of put.io IP addresses connected to the bit torrent swarm? Or will it be a game of whack a mole? Just interested in the general legality. I suppose no one can really monitor the downloads from random sites like megaupload... will sites like that begin to actively monitor and disable downloads from services like these (as they circumvent the ads)..?
- doppel 14y agoMost likely put.io will receive any DMCA-notices and will have to comply with these and take down the offending files to remain legal? I used to operate a tor exit-node and my hosting provider wasn't really interested in whether I was infringing or not; If the data looked to be going to my server, I was responsible so in the end I had no option but to operate as a non-exit node. Put.io will most likely be hosting their own data (or in the cload), so this might not be an issue.
- aam1r 14y agoI am wondering the same thing. Another thing to consider is the scenario that copyright holders start going after Put.io like they did for Megaupload. If they were to get their hands on the database, they will have a record of exactly what each user has downloaded/shared. I wonder what that would mean for the user in terms of legalities and may be even penalties?
- erenemre 14y agoThis is their DMCA policy https://put.io/dmca https://put.io/dmca
- therealarmen 14y agoJust FYI, on the register pages (http://put.io/register/BASIC http://put.io/register/BASIC) you display the SSL Verified seal but the form isn't actually sent via SSL. You might want to fix that.
- elithrar 14y agoThere appears to be a HTTPS version of the site, but it's not asking for it by default/redirecting from HTTP: https://put.io/register/BASIC https://put.io/register/BASIC
- khet 14y agoI didn't build the app - just submitted it to HN. Feedback is valid nonetheless.
- FooVio 14y agoThank you for the heads up. Fixed immediately.
- bryanh 14y agoCareful with the .io domain, though I've never heard of them shutting down a startup over content, their rules do state: No .IO domain may be used, directly or indirectly, for any purpose that is sexual or pornographic or that is against the statutory laws of any Nation. The "laws of any Nation" could be a rather onerous clause one hopes never gets called upon. It has happened for .ly domains...
- roryokane 14y agoLink to those rules: http://www.nic.io/rules.html http://www.nic.io/rules.html
- sunsetandlabrea 14y agoI own the putio.com domain and they approached me when they first launched to buy it, presumably to redirect to put.io but maybe because of these rules.
- digitalengineer 14y agoSo either they didn't want to pay what you asked or you've got your own plans for putio.com?
- sunsetandlabrea 14y agoI haven't got any plans for it as a website, I use the domain for email. Putio is how my son used to pronounce computer when he was small. I asked what they were offering, it was a token amount and I preferred to keep it.
- digitalengineer 14y agoGood for you ;-) Nice story about your son. I do suspect you might get some mail from put.io if you have a catch-all emailaccount activated.
- username3 14y ago
- orta 14y agoI love Put.IO, and so I made a cool iOS app for it: http://awesomeputioapp.com http://awesomeputioapp.com
- primitur 14y agoI love put.io app, and thank you as an avid user! One thing would be nice to know: you mention its open source? {Another thing that would be nice to know is a set of fat rss feeds, but I'll reserve that question for elsewhere.. hint hint}
- orta 14y agohttps://github.com/orta/Puttio/ https://github.com/orta/Puttio/ - I should add a link in the site The app uses a collection of sources of torrents, I've only found the native RSS feeds functionality of Put.IO to be useful for [pod/vid]casts
- primitur 14y agoThis is really nice, I hope you know you've won a fan today! :)
- li-ch 14y agoIn fact, Xunlei, the download software that has most users in the world, does a much better job for a much lower price (10GB for 15 USD per year). But you have to be able to read Chinese...http://vip.xunlei.com/freedom/lixian.html http://vip.xunlei.com/freedom/lixian.html
- aluhut 14y agoI'm ok with the free account on put.io. I use torrent only for foreign tv shows. They are not that big anymore. 1gig will be enough because I don't plan to store the stuff.
- veermishra0803 14y agoNice concept and the home page looks nice
- haldean 14y agoThe torrents I add aren't being downloaded; they've been stuck at 0% for around 20 minutes now. Is it just under heavier-than-usual load? Edit: never mind, working as expected now.
- onursenture 14y agoi have done an internship at put.io so seeing them in frontpage of hackernews is awesome. :)
- fwr 14y ago"Le media"?
- sgdesign 14y agoWhat I like about put.io is that if somebody else already downloaded the same torrent, your download is instantaneous. Of course, you still have to download the file from put.io, which can itself takes ages (at least from here in Japan). I guess you'll always have bottlenecks somewhere…
- sparkinson 14y agoOne thing, they have an upper limit of 25 characters for the password. Sometimes that's ok, but not always a good sign for how they store passwords.
- aes256 14y agoMy (unique) passwords are always more than 25 characters, and it really irks me when websites place maximum limits on the length. Worse still is when they don't even tell you about the maximum limit, so you paste your 25+ character password in, fire the registration form off thinking everything is fine, only to find they'd only taken the first 10/15/20 characters and the full length password you gave them doesn't work.
- FooVio 14y agoFixed, sir. All the passwords are hashed and salted, btw. No worries.
- sparkinson 14y agoThat's some fast turn around you have for fixes, thanks! Now time to change the password.
- jQueryIsAwesome 14y agoI really hope you are not trying to reach the spanish market... because "Putio" sounds way too much like an spanish slang word (hard to explain, lets says its a verbalized version of what in english would be "b*tch"). Something similar happened with "webOS" and every spanish forum were making jokes about it.
- shanelja 14y agoIn which way is Putio similar to Puta other than that they both start with the same three letters? The pronunciation is completely different, Puta is pronounced 'pooh - ta' where as Putio is 'put - eye - oh' or if pronounced by a native spanish person 'pooh - tee - oh' (in which case the 'tee' would be pronounced extremely quickly.) I honestly believe this is a false concern. Source: Lived in Spain for 2 years up until 7 months ago, spent months there at a time previously.
- jaimebuelta 14y agoPutio could be pronounced very similarly to "Puto", which is a swear word in Spanish. It can have different meanings depending where you are, but in Mexico it can be used directly as an insult.
- jaimebuelta 14y agoJust read below that a comment said "X uses the Put.io API", in my (Spanish) head, it sounds like "X uses the F*ing API" ;-)
- thepumpkin1979 14y agoUs hispanic people should pronounce it in English("Pout-ai-ou"), same with webOS("web-ou-es"). Only moronic people Makes jokes on things like this. On the other hand, Colors is something that UX/UI designers should take more seriously: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_symbolism http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_symbolism
- StavrosK 14y ago
- sturmeh 14y agoSo it's a seedbox?
- rgbrgb 14y agoThat's what it looks like to me, but other people here seem to be pretty enthusiastic about it. If it's not just a seedbox, ca someone explain it to me?
- sparkinson 14y agoWithout the seed aspect I'd imagine. I could be wrong though but seems kinda pointless/risky for the company to actually seed.
- ya3r 14y agoI've noticed they don't fetch popular files twice from torrents that they already have them!
- pault 14y agoCan I pause and resume downloads?
- louisdorard 14y agohttp://movies.io http://movies.io uses the put.io API!
- fatih_b 14y agoput.io is the best start-up which I have joined as a customer. Cheap, fast and simple service. Also, put.io accepts free users for 1G. Everybody must try.
- codedreamer 14y agodo you work for them much?
- StavrosK 14y agoI don't understand these services. If I'm going to have to download the thing anyway, why put another layer in the middle? It's always going to take less time to download directly.
- adrianN 14y agoYou let the service download the slow torrent over night and then use a fast download from their servers to transfer it to your computer. This way you don't have to have a running computer in your room all that time.
- StavrosK 14y agoHmm, I forgot that not all people have a computer running 24/7. I haven't seen many slow torrents, but I guess they exist. Thanks for the explanation!
- j_s 14y agoOne reason is that these services provide a much better upstream/outbound connection than most consumer ISPs.
- napierzaza 14y agoSo I can use the most blocked and filtered protocol on the planet to do regular stuff? Great. That will work out. As long as I never try it from my office where it's banned. Or from my house where it's purposely slowed down.
- rainboiboi 14y agoI don't understand how they made the service so blazing fast so much so that the moment I pasted a magnet link in, the next second I could direct download from it.
- phpnode 14y agodeduplication. Likely someone else had already downloaded that file so put.io just serves you the copy they already have.
- hnriot 14y agoEither I missed it, or am a little dim this monday morning but it took me reading the whole landing page to actually figure out what it did. A "torrent gofer". I am confused at the value though except for the remote control aspect. I can torrent at speeds that saturate my ISP or I can download from put.io and saturate my channel, either way it amounts to the same time. And I have to pay for the intermediate storage? The one benefit I see is when a torrent is slow and the person wanting the file doesn't have a computer available to cover the download period, put.io act as a store and forward server. Possibly if the client->put.io is https then this solves a problem whereby ISP's track the port usage. I suppose torrent->https is an advantage for some.
- Karunamon 14y agoWow, the content filtering nazis didn't take too long to get at this. Websense'd as "file sharing" :(
- davidbanham 14y agoSeems like they're solving a similar problem to what I'm trying to with ntor. This is obviously way more built out and polished, though. https://github.com/davidbanham/ntor https://github.com/davidbanham/ntor I'm very keen to check out their social sharing aspects. Pity they don't seem to have a mechanism for ad-hoc search.
- alexu 14y agoAwesome. Went from free plan to basic and then to $10/month in 30 minutes. Integration with movies.io is amazing. And they will automatically download Daily Show from rss feed... Already downgraded my netflix to 1 movie.
- danjessen 14y agoNow make it work on xbmc …