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Put.io
- esMazer 13y agowhat are they going to do when people download illegal torrents to it?
- tlongren 13y agohttps://put.io/dmca https://put.io/dmca
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- lowglow 13y agoFrom the FAQ (http://faq.put.io/ http://faq.put.io/): > Why are downloads from put.io to my computer slow? > Well the biggest factor is your location. Our servers are in Netherlands. - I guess this is why I torrent. :(
- jamesaguilar 13y agoGets 5 MB/s to me in CA.
- pfisch 13y agoUsenet is like 16+ MB/s What is the point of this?
- silvertab 13y agoOne advantage is to instantly stream video files for most torrents. If someone else on put.io downloaded a given torrent before you, it's available for streaming in mp4 immediately (and that's the case for most torrents I've added to put.io)
- pfisch 13y agoThat is only going to work for a lower quality feed though. Even the best streams from netflix are not as good as an actual 720p high bitrate video. You would need to be able to stream at a consistent 6 mb/s minimum to even start to stream at even 720. If you want a low quality video like what you are talking about you can literally download it in like 1 minute at 16 mb/s so there is really very little reason to stream at all.
- jamesaguilar 13y ago5 MB/s is 40 Mb/s, so put.io is fine for both 720p and 1080p instant streaming on my connection.
- jamesaguilar 13y agoTorrent recall (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precision_and_recall http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precision_and_recall) is much higher than Usenet, even pay service which I used to have. Also, 5 MB/s down is more or less saturating my connection. I have no use for 16 MB/s down.
- maqr 13y agoI don't think most people are aware of what can be done with a good usenet provider and sickbeard. Perhaps it's for the best.
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- nostromo 13y agoI imagine hosting this service in the US would create all sorts of liabilities.
- rmc 13y agoYeah cause there's no copyright law in the Netherlands
- rizalp 13y agoYou can change the where the servers for your downloaded content is. Just take a look at the settings. I live in southeast Asia, and there's even Singapore listed on it. So it's very helpful to speed up the download
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- voltagex_ 13y agoThose seeding rules will get you banned off quite a few trackers.
- Meekro 13y agoThis is a really cool idea, but I'd like a bit more storage, and less cost, before I sign up. If I could get 3TB for $15/mo, I'd be there. 3TB drives can be had for $120, and I'd like my cloud storage to be competitively priced. Offloading my torrent collection into the cloud sounds like a great step forward, but not if it results in me paying more.
- mattparcher 13y agoI’m assuming that the service cost doesn't come primarily from storage, but rather from bandwidth usage, and the increase in hardware requirements for handling a larger number of torrents.
- paulbaumgart 13y agoAmazon's S3, which presumably has scale advantages over put.io, charges $80/TB/month just for storage. put.io charges only 60% of that with data transfer included. Based on that, I doubt your wishes will come true any time soon.
- jonknee 13y agoS3 is one of the most expensive ways to store and transfer stuff though. Not to say the original poster could find that pricing, but if S3 is your benchmark you can save a lot of money.
- notfed 13y ago"With put.io...you won't be hogging all the bandwidth." - How could this possibly save bandwidth?
- tlongren 13y agoNo seeding from your home internet connection.
- notfed 13y agoI don't understand--you can easily turn off seeding from your home internet connection with any torrent software.
- sachingulaya 13y agoMany private rodent does require that you seed to remain in good standing.
- Tarang 13y agoIts not only that, a download over HTTP uses less bandwidth than a download over torrent because of the block overhead. It does end up being quite significant. Additionally you don't need to upload anything at all to be able to download something. Typically when downloading a torrent you do have to upload something for the swarm to prioritize data to you.
- neurostimulant 13y agoMany people use ISP-provided router that choked when there are a lot of open connections. A torrent client will usually try to open as many connections as possible, pushing the router to the limit. Under that condition, if another user join the network and tried to browse the internet, he'll encounter a lot of connection timeout error. The only way to avoid this issue is to configure the torrent client to play nice (limit the number of connections) or tweak the router QoS settings to lower priority for torrents traffic (not sure if it's possible with encrypted torrents). source: my apartment shares a single dsl router to all its tenants
- gkoberger 13y agoThis has been around for a few years. It's absolutely amazing -- you can subscribe to RSS, and it makes it dead simple to stream to Roku/etc, too.
- alooPotato 13y agoany chance I'll be able to stream to my chromecast?
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- roberto 13y agoThere's an Android app that is announcing Chromecast support soon.
- RealGeek 13y agoI was disappointed by Put.io in the past, it over promised and under delivered. It seemed like an unstable app with very slow speeds. It looks like they have improved since I last used it, I will give it another try. I use http://www.cloudload.com http://www.cloudload.com, it is a similar app and works like a charm.
- adrinavarro 13y agoI used them before and I'm trying them again. They now seem to allow you to pick the best mirror available for you, so your ISP's peering is no longer a problem.
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- tanga 13y agoI don't understand how this gonna work ? I pay them $0.99 to download files for me. Then how am I going to get it over to my machine ? To get file(s) to my machine would it not cost me same bandwidth as it would if I were to download it myself in first place ? Am I missing something ?
- dmix 13y agoDoes it support magnet links? This is an issue with remote servers hosting rtorrent.
- tlongren 13y agoYah, it does.
- icebraining 13y agoWhy would they have issues? rtorrent has supported magnet links for a long time now.
- baddox 13y agoThis seems like a slightly worse seedbox marketed towards people who haven't heard of seedboxes.
- kennywinker 13y agoOr for people who aren't interested in managing their own box, building / installing / maintaining the control software, etc. Just the same way Dropbox is for people who haven't heard of NASs or Amazon S3.
- baddox 13y agoThere are seedbox providers which require very little knowledge or effort.
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- diminoten 13y agoTook me 3 minutes to get put.io working. Name one seedbox provider that can be set up that quickly.
- ahawkins 13y agoseedbox.cc
- mrmondo 13y ago"Critical Error Could not connect to the database"
- pritambaral 13y agoHN crowd?
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- rpicard 13y agoI have been using put.io for years and I love them! Downloads from their server to me are fast and the torrents themselves are often instant.
- warmwaffles 13y agoSo...crappy seedboxes...no thank you. I'll just go with another provider.
- recursive 13y agoWhat's crappy about this? It sounds pretty cool.
- taternuts 13y agoI'm a fan of http://www.feralhosting.com http://www.feralhosting.com myself. I know http://www.whatbox.ca http://www.whatbox.ca can do similar stuff via an nginx config
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- EGreg 13y agoWhat we could use is a secure cloud like freenet, which: 1) Converts and transcodes files on the client 2) Encrypts them on the client, has diffs and versioning with git 3) Stores encrypted versions in a distributed manner on many servers 4) Uses bitcoins to pay for all the bandwidth, storage 5) Is an autonomous corporation that can't be shut down blabla Maybe in a few years this will exist.
- huhtenberg 13y ago1-3 was done by Wuala and if their history is of any indication, this is an unsustainable model even without added complexity of being fully decentralized, bitcoin-supported community project. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wuala http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wuala
- rmc 13y ago2) Encrypts them on the client, has diffs and versioning with git Minor nitpick, git is actually quite bad at handlying large files. So you shouldn't use git, you should use something git-like
- ukd1 13y agoSounds similar to https://www.streem.com/ https://www.streem.com/ but with less focus on video?
- achalkley 13y agoHas this pivoted?
- uladzislau 13y agoI was using it for some time until they started to use all kind of tricks to force me to upgrade to the more expensive plans. It started from $5, then I was paying $10 and after the next "upgrade or we remove your account", I cancelled.
- silvertab 13y agoWow, a bit surprised to hear that! What kind of tricks are we talking about? I've been on their $5 plan for over a year and have never heard anything from them about upgrading!
- lelandbatey 13y agoHow do you have a $5 plan? I don't see it listed anywhere on the pricing page: http://puu.sh/6Jlp8.png http://puu.sh/6Jlp8.png
- silvertab 13y agoInteresting, they used to offer a 10GB plan for $5 (which I've always been on: http://d.pr/i/WDEK http://d.pr/i/WDEK ) . Apparently it's not available anymore! However, I was never asked to upgrade my plan (I didn't even know the plan I was on didn't exist anymore before today!)
- larrybolt 13y agoI was as well on the $5/month plan, I suspended my account for a little while due to exams, and tried re-activating it just to notice the $5 plan was gone. A few mails with support later they provided me a link to re-activate my 5$ plan. I didn't use it that much though, merely for shows in combination with showRSS. I have had contact with the support of put.io more than once, and they were always very friendly and helpful. (even if some of the request were things such as "add play.fm support"). The big advantage over anything else I've seen with putio is that populair torrents are downloaded in a matter of seconds (due to someone else already having downloaded it) and the mp4-conversion. Btw, a small tip, instead of using the site itself for watching media which is downloaded, you can stream it directly into VLC or MPlayerX (the later also support streaming youtube video's I believe) which is very very handy! Just noticed, there is an option for the legacy 10G $5/month account: http://lry.be/WRxO http://lry.be/WRxO
- gfunk911 13y agoI use and love put.io. Completely hassle free. I'd never go back. The killer feature is instant completion of torrents if someone else has already downloaded them. I can be watching a movie 60 seconds after thinking of it.
- steeve 13y agoThen you might want to try XBMCtorrent [1]. (disclosure: I wrote it) Select a torrent, watch it. [1] http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=174736 http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=174736 [2] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQiC62ig3N0 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQiC62ig3N0 Edit: wrong url
- aabalkan 13y agoUseless for US citizens who are not using private VPN, since it downloads torrents on your machine, which tells legal institutions that your IP address is downloading that movie using torrent.
- forty2 13y agoSo far guys I'm using StreamNation.com (http://www.streamnation.com http://www.streamnation.com), way better than put.io, their UI is amazing, they offer way more features and their iOS app is a killer with an offline mode. Last the pricing: they are 10 times less expensive. Plus they transcode all videos and stream them, and they support magnets! You should try my friends, no-brainer!
- Ecio78 13y agoIt's interesting that they don't talk about torrent anywhere on the pages, in order to verify that they support it I had to search on their blog for word like "magnet". I guess they probably prefer to have a low profile approach and use generic sentences like "your ripped DVDs, video files and web clips"
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- motyar 13y agoI have been using put.io, Its osm. [They closed all free accounts]
- duochrome 13y agoYou never heard of Xunlei? It's a Chinese product and it's like just $20 a year. Xunlei has a huge network and it's very likely the content you want is already in their server and has been encoded.
- yueq 13y agoGlad someone mentioned this company. Their services are banned outside China mainland cause of copyright concerns.
- xerophtye 13y agoUmm... maybe i am misunderstanding their service, but i fail to see the point. With put.io, a server can torrent the file for me. And then... i stream it from the server... So, my pc still needs that gigabits of transfer, at my usual net speed. Where was the gain? Couldn't i have used the same time to torrent it? In fact i would have to torrent it ONCE, but with put.io i have to stream (and thus effectively download that data) each time i want to view that file...
- cloudwalking 13y ago- You don't need to seed. - Your ISP won't throttle your torrent packets.
- foobarqux 13y agoYou can also stream immediately without waiting for the torrent to complete.
- lispsil 13y agoYou also avoid nasty letters from copyright lawyers, which can get you kicked off campus at some universities or even kicked out of school sadly. Of course a vpn also avoids this, or a seedbox, or newsgroups
- GigabyteCoin 13y agoIf I understand this correctly... You're paying 0.99/mo to ensure that you get top speeds of all torrents downloaded all the time. Sometimes you can't get the best seeder because more powerful seeders are taking your priority. put.io is always that more powerful seeder.
- aroman 13y agoIt's much more expensive than $0.99/mo. That's just for a one-day trial. The cheapest plan they offer is $10/month.
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- msoad 13y agoThese are the reasons put.io is awesome: - It caches torrents that other people downloaded(popular torrents) so if you add them, they are in your library immediately - You can subscribe to RSS feeds of TV shows from showrss.info without needing to download every show individually - You can install the XBMC app to access you content there - A REST API? Yup! They have it! - It converts videos to MP4 on their cloud - You can use multi-connection downloaders to reach to speeds like 30Mbps - There are many apps to use with put.io
- mikevm 13y agoYou forgot the best reason: - It links all your downloaded content directly to your credit card, thus incriminating you.
- izolate 13y agoThat in itself is the sole reason why I'm out. Put.io in general looks interesting however.
- slashdotaccount 13y agoUse BitCoin.
- pekk 13y agoI see this as a mechanism for diffusing liability. Users who would otherwise be legally liable for seeding copyrighted content can instead use put.io, which "seeds" for them without their involvement and just lets them download as if they were only leeching. As long as nobody gets a legal beatdown for using put.io...
- judk 13y agoDiffusing, or centralizing at put.io? (How are they not shut down yet?) And the law takes a dim view of conspiracy as well...
- ferongr 13y ago>Huge torrents are hard to get I'm not sure about this claim. From personal experience using ADSL, a 3G USB stick, my uni's 100Mbps connection back in the day and lowly 128k ISDN, I'd say that a torrent can either saturate one's connection with a healthy swarm or be slow as molasses due to the lack of seeds. I'm not sure how a seedbox can bypass the inherent mode of operation of the Bittorent protocol.
- voltagex_ 13y agoIsn't there a weighting mechanism that if you're uploading fast, you'll get prioritized for new pieces?
- hhw 13y agoSimple, seedboxes tend to be close to other seedboxes. They then potentially talk to each other over the same network, or a nearby one they peer with, meaning bits generally have less distance to travel and over bigger pipes. A disproportionately large number of seedboxes are hosted on OVH's network. The capacity from the seedboxes back to you might not be that great, but it doesn't matter because your home connection is so slow in comparison that it can still easily be saturated.
- notastartup 13y agoThis is great but how long until it gets shut down by RIAA or it's posse crew members and the founder gets slapped with a huge fine? If anything they should operate in a country where US does not have a good expedition treaty.
- fmax30 13y agoHow is it different from http://boxopus.com/ http://boxopus.com/ , boxopus at least has a free tier , put.io doesn't.
- aluhut 13y agoDoesn't anymore. They had one then closed it down saying that: "it didn't work out for them". I guess it was good enough when they were new. I'm curious how they made it on top of HN today. They are not new, the concept is not new. Nothing is really innovative about it. Still they are topic No. 1 today.
- n1ghtmare_ 13y agoWell it looks like a cool service, not sure how to sign up though ? I don't have a facebook account and there is a link to use email instead that doesn't seem to work.
- rsoto 13y agoI was a costumer, before focusing entirely on torrents, they also provided downloads for Rapidshare-like-sites, where you could download one file every two or three hours, which was pretty inconvenient. Put.io had a few premium accounts, so they downloaded that for you. I guess then the premium accounts were suspended as it was hurting Rapidshare's sales and Put.io stopped offering that service. Put.io is awesome, it's a very good and very well executed idea, but it was even more awesome a few years ago, and less expensive.
- posborne 13y agoI wrote this (https://github.com/posborne/putio-sync https://github.com/posborne/putio-sync) a few weekends ago for automatically grabbing content from put.io using their API (https://put.io/v2/docs/index.html https://put.io/v2/docs/index.html). Pretty handy and performs downloads quickly by doing multi-segment downloads. Pure python and MIT licensed -- should be pip installable from pypi. I string this together with another script to rename content and it drops right into my Plex library.
- talonstriker 13y agoIt'd be really cool if one of these websites integrated with Amazon S3 (i.e. download it and store in one of my buckets). I don't need the storage, just the bandwidth.
- Orangeair 13y agoSo as far as I understand, this service basically just equates to a way to download torrents faster. Sometimes much faster, but still, that doesn't seem super important. Also, can someone explain to me what kind of torrents people would actually use this for? They seem to have a huge emphasis on videos, but they also say that they don't allow copyrighted content. Maybe I just don't know much about torrents (I mostly use them for things like downloading Ubuntu), but I don't understand what kind of legal videos people would be torrenting so frequently that they need this.
- zmk_ 13y agoThey don't even pretend outside of TOS. On the main page in the examples there is copyrighted material. Also, how is paying somebody to brake the law for you not breaking the law as well? Out of all the ways to get "videos" of the Internet this must be the least secure nowadays.
- TallGuyShort 13y agoIt seems as though the primary use case being discussed and implied is torrenting of media that is not legal (however ethical you feel it may be) to torrent in many countries. Please remember that when you do so, you weaken the case the rest of us have against the same laws you're ignoring, against DRM, against intrusions into our privacy, and against unfair ISP practices.
- mayneack 13y agoI'm pretty sure the legality depends on WHAT you're torrenting. Is it illegal to torrent ubuntu anywhere?
- Nursie 13y agoI was going to say the same, but the page does talk about media and mp4s in particular. I'm not sure the set of legal mp4 torrents is very large.
- patio11 13y agoI'm sure their customers are enthusiastically paying $5 a month for fast downloads of their 3 TB of personally customized Ubuntu distributions, and that the numerous references to music and video on this page are all to Creative Commons licensed remixes of Jonathan Coulton songs.
- hayksaakian 13y agoGiven that they show episodes and screenshots of TV show torrents on the home page, this throws all plausible deniability out the window.
- supersystem 13y agoThe episodes in the screenshots are creative commons licensed, distributed by donation based service http://vodo.net http://vodo.net
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- lispsil 13y agoSomebody tell these guys to use mandatory encryption with all their staff internal communications. Would have saved Megaupload a lot of hassle
- homakov 13y agoNo word about security hah. I'd expect it <h1>! Will "NSA"/etc know what torrents I downloaded?
- mayneack 13y agoHow does this save bandwidth? Let's say I want to watch a 4gb 720p movie? If I use this, won't I just then be streaming that much data or losing quality? Torrenting generally is better for slow connections than streaming because you can torrent and then play offline instead of having to worry about buffering and a consistent connection.
- Nursie 13y agoNo uploading or torrent protocol overhead?
- zmk_ 13y agoI thinke they meant that they are caching caching stuff on the backend so the downloads "finish" faster if they are other people on the service downloading the same files.
- craigmccaskill 13y agoIt saves bandwidth because a lot of ISPs track upload and download towards your bandwidth limit. This removes the upload component completely.
- blahbl4hblahtoo 13y agoThis is dumb. Using a service to pirate material? Jesus? Another day another dumb dot eye oh...
- pacifi30 13y agoThe name in itself is so beautiful.
- warrenmiller 13y agoAnyone else worried a list of all your torrens is kept in one place and can be tied directly back to you via you Credit card, unless you pay via bitcoins. They might not do anything with this data but when pressed by Mr big Coporation they may have no choice...
- genu1 13y agoI am. Anyone know details about the founders? Are these guys trying to make a statement, or out to make a buck? In which case, selling the data about its users would be a great monetization model.
- gcb0 13y agoLike it matters... It could have been founded my mother Theresa. It would still be a sweet place for the MAFIAA tugs to drop DMCA requests, or whatever those abuses are called nowadays, by the truckload on their heads.
- sillysaurus2 13y agoIt would still be a sweet place for the MAFIAA tugs to drop DMCA requests, or whatever those abuses are called nowadays How are DMCA requests inherently abuses?
- pritambaral 13y agoBecause DMCA makes itself easy to be abused. Off the top of my head, I can remember Microsoft asking Google to take down results to OpenOffice[1]. The first Google result for "DMCA Abuse" reveals this:[2] [1] http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/08/16/microsoft_dmca_takedown_requests_targeting_openoffice/ http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/08/16/microsoft_dmca_taked... [2] https://www.eff.org/press/releases/fifteen-years-dmca-abuse https://www.eff.org/press/releases/fifteen-years-dmca-abuse EDIT: They aren't "inherently" abuses. They are easily used as such.
- steeve 13y agoFor those of you using XBMC, you might want to check out XBMCtorrent then [1]. It does exactly what the name says, while not depending on a service to do the download: select a torrent, watch it. Disclosure: I'm the author [1] http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=174736 http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=174736 [2] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQiC62ig3N0 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQiC62ig3N0 EDIT: URL was wrong
- inanov 13y agoWhen you have some slow peers along with a lousy internet connection, put.io really helps. with my upload speeds (makes 56K jealous), to seed a torrent up to a meaningful ratio, i should wait forever. put.io helps me with this and many other stuff. besides that, they recently added a server to my city, which boosted my usage. Besides the torrents, they catch rss feeds, podcasts faster than I do, and I just stream it, if I need any subtitles, I just upload them (or fetch from open subtitles) and there they are. I love their service and will keep supporting them, and recommend to anyone I know.
- Kiro 13y agoHow can this be legal?
- Kiro 13y agoIsn't this just another seedbox or how is it different?
- mindcrash 13y agoInteresting proposition, but: "Our servers are in Netherlands" Are they insane? If there's any country hostile to these kinds of services it's the Netherlands. The copyright outfit BREIN is taking down Usenet providers (if they can proof they are willingly providing access to pirated material), Usenet communities and Torrent communities housed in the Netherlands left and right; I can't imagine they would leave something screaming that it basically is intended for violating copyright and with rising popularity like put.io alone for long.
- avodonosov 13y agoAll download data flows to put.io and don't take your bandwidth. But then you download it via http - the same files. What's the point? You only save bandwidth avoiding torrent seeding. Is it so significant to worry about it?
- PsychoBilly 13y agoI'd rather commit sepukku than paying a web-service that charges 10$/month to seed for just 2 days until 2 ratio. I'll go with a cheap debian server + apt-get install transmission-cli
- PsychoBilly 13y ago... or a hidden raspberry stuffed near a hotspot
- joris 13y agoI use http://subliss.com http://subliss.com and it works pretty great for videos. They offer free trials through this link: https://subliss.com/users/sign_up https://subliss.com/users/sign_up
- kayoone 13y agoI really dont get this. The use case must be to download copyright protected stuff, otherwise no one would pay for this, but isnt it pretty dangerous to hand all your download history and stuff like that to a 3rd party ? That opposed to an unlimited Usenet Subscription for $10/mo with SSL encryption and no user traceable data.
- jgreen10 13y agoI expect this is a very temporary service.
- TheSmoke 13y agoit's been ~4 years since put.io opened its doors.
- sorpaas 13y agoIf you live in China, you will find Xunlei(lixian.xunlei.com) and Xuanfeng(lixian.qq.com) all have similar functions.
- scrrr 13y agoIf you're downloading copyrighted movies, it seems to be a slightly silly idea to supply anyone with a list. And your payment information.
- codecoda 13y agoam not going to use or support put.io - wtf, they want money..??!!
- woodylondon 13y agoMy concern with this is that they will have your credit card details / address information. At a later stage should they have a big legal problem (which I suspect they will) the lawyers will come directly after you. It's a great idea, and if it was for legal use only, but you know what people are really going to use it for!
- stigi 13y agoI don't want to be offensive, but what's the news in this post? Why is it no 1 on HN right now?
- leoplct 13y agoIs not illegal downloading torrent?
- melloclello 13y agoThrice today I've clicked on a link to put.io (which was upvoted on a number of sites), scrolled around absentmindedly for a bit, and left. It was only just now that I thought, 'wait a second' and clicked back, to realise that your site is a bittorrent service (and one that I may actually use since my free EC2 instance (which I was using as a torrent box) just expired). I guess what I'm saying is, you might want to unbold 'Hassle-free' and embolden the word 'torrenting' in your byline. Or something like that. Here's what my brain saw when I went to your site: http://i.imgur.com/9D78Bx9.png http://i.imgur.com/9D78Bx9.png I'm not being snarky, but I am trying to help you see into the mind of a disinterested internet user in the midst of a mild social media daze.
- tbarbugli 13y agoTo me it sounds very scary to make profit with something related to torrents. If I was the founder of put.io I would spend most of the time looking at the window expecting an FBI helicopter to land on my garden at any time.
- gerjomarty 13y agoDoes anyone know how good the transcoding is on the stream? I torrent a lot of x264 video with multiple complex ASS subtitles in the MKV container, so it'd be nice if it handled those.
- lucb1e 13y agoWait, I don't get it. This is basically the same as running a server with a torrent daemon (like Transmission) on it, except you pay them instead of get your own server? Also their arguments are somewhat invalid: > People sharing your internet connection. They hate you! With put.io, you won't disturb them, because you won't be hogging all the bandwidth. It doesn't matter whether I download 18GB from http(s) or from a torrent, the data remains the same size, except you can usually limit the torrent traffic whereas most people wouldn't know how to limit http(s) traffic in their browser. > Watch RSS feeds My torrent server does that too, but I never use it anyway > Huge torrents are hard to get Why? > Get to your files from anywhere Okay this is the only advantage if you don't have your own server.
- babby 13y ago>It doesn't matter whether I download 18GB from http(s) or from a torrent, the data remains the same size Incorrect. For starters, torrent overhead is much higher than http traffic and so the transfer is actually cheaper for http. More critically is the fact that high connection count, as associated with torrents, results in connection saturation on 90% of consumer routers thus crippling all traffic, especially sensitive stuff like gaming, for everyone involved. Other than that yeah, but this isn't for people like us. This is actually perfect for people like my father; he comes around every week to grab TV and Movies off me. I could remotely manage his account until he figured it out himself. The thing that could make this service much better would be a feature to LAN sync content, so that one doesn't need to pull down from the internet when the file is avaliable over the LAN. Kind of like how Dropbox-esque services do it.
- actsasbuffoon 13y agoI think the primary benefit is plausible deniability. Such a service wouldn't make it impossible to be legally targeted, but it could make it sufficiently unpleasant that they decide to target a more brazen offender. It's a bit like fleeing from a bear; you don't need to be the fastest runner, you just have to be a little faster than the slowest person. Having the server in someone else's name provides a slight buffer, but is hardly insurmountable. If the server belongs to a company in another country then that could make it difficult for a local court to issue a subpoena that's enforceable in said company's jurisdiction. If you are one of a dozen users of a given server then that could hypothetically make it harder to prove which user was the infringer. All of that is obviously hypothetical, I am not a lawyer, and I certainly don't have expertise in international law. These are simply the musings of my groggy brain first thing in the morning. Anyone who isn't half asleep care to weigh in?
- sturmeh 13y agoPlease reconsider using an flipped beats logo (cringe).
- martincerdeira 13y agoThe name "putio" sucks. It's sounds like the spanish word "puto" (that means faggot) I think the service is great, though
- rburhum 13y agoI saw the HN post 6 times today and every single time I read puto. Not trying to troll, just being honest about the name.
- randomthought 13y agohow are the dealing with legal issues?
- lurkinggrue 13y agoI think the answer is... They aren't.
- qwwqww 13y agoseems like whatbox.ca offers a way better service. They got way more storage for less money and they are fast as fuck. Only down thing is no instant completion, but if you got enough seeders on your tracker, than every torrent would be finished in less than 5 minutes
- progamler 13y agoalready postet 1395 days ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1255277 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1255277
- nly 13y agobitfetch is a similar service, but requires no registration and uses bitcoin for payment exclusively. https://bitfetch.com/ https://bitfetch.com/
- scrabble 13y agoIt seems that the company would have a higher level of plausible deniability of their screenshots didn't display torrents of material under copyright.
- gfalcao 13y agoI've been using put.io for 3 or 4 years now, it truly hassle free and I literally can not understand why it wasn't featured in HN before. I have upgraded and downgraded my plan many times, depending on my own needs, it's been years I don't use a torrent client. This is how you download torrents blazingly fast: Download firefox + DownThemAll! extension, configure downthemall enabling all the maximum of speeds go to http://put.io http://put.io, add a torrent in the download queue, it will probably be done within minutes, if not seconds (no exaggeration), then download them straight to your computer through downthemall
- ests 13y agoWow. This is brilliant.
- pWneD 13y agoSo, is it a seedbox?
- x0054 13y agoFor $15 a year you can get a crappy little VPS with 20 gigs of disk and 200GB/month connection. Install transmission on it and use it as a seed box. On popular torrents you can get 4-7mbps transfer speeds. Have the files saved once done to a folder that you share via BT Sync, and the files will automatically move to your computer once done. Just another solution.
- badman_ting 13y agoBut what if you want the stuff on your computer? I'm guessing you have to download it from the cloud, so… I don't get the point? Help me out here. Edit: Well, I guess you still get the benefit of them doing the seeding instead of your home connection… That's more attractive to some than others I suppose.
- djtriptych 13y agoThere's just no way in hell I would ever use this without VERY good assurances that my credit card will never be linked to what I download. There's about a billion ways that could happen, EVEN IF put.io has no intention of ever releasing that information. Are they sure they won't be hacked? why? Are they sure they wouldn't have to give up my information based on a public, lawful gov't inquiry? What about a secret, unlawful inquiry? Are they sure about that case? How they can launch this with ZERO information about steps they've taken to protect anonymity is mind-boggling to me. I'm about to send out a note to my less technical friends to avoid this like the plague.
- voxic11 13y agoWhy not use bitcoin then?
- lurkinggrue 13y agoWow, What a strange place to torrent: http://i.imgur.com/2S3YeYW.png http://i.imgur.com/2S3YeYW.png
- kkitay 13y agoNever heard of this before; paid the $0.99 and couldn't believe how awesome it was. What a killer service.
- forty2 13y agoSo far guys I'm using StreamNation.com (http://www.streamnation.com http://www.streamnation.com), way better than put.io, their UI is amazing, they offer way more features and their iOS app is a killer with an offline mode. Last the pricing: they are 10 times less expensive. You should try my friends!
- forty2 13y agoPlus they transcode all videos so you can stream to any device. 20GB of free storage and support for magnets.
- akumen 13y agoHmm ... so the service looks to target what would be considered illegal in most countries yet has no meaningful way to hide the user's identity? Using a VPN will not help when subpoenas are coming down for release of CC/payment details with names, billing address etc. Am I missing something?
- jarnix 13y agoThere are other websites for this usage, did anyone try the others sites mentioned here : http://www.noobstogeek.com/free-online-torrent-downloader/ http://www.noobstogeek.com/free-online-torrent-downloader/ ?