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I 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 t

I 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 ago
Then 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 ago
  Useless 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 ago
    So 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 ago
      It'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"
gramsey 13y ago
I will also heartily voice my love of this service. It has totally changed the way I view movies and TV shows. I'm a technically-inclined person, but I really don't want to spend hours fiddling with torrents. The instant torrent completion is an absolutely killer feature. The UI is easy to use and dead simple. The developers regularly update the site and let us know when there are disruptions. I'm a "broke" college student, and to be honest, out of all of the online services I pay money for, this is the one I think the least about before purchasing.
steelaz 13y ago
A lot of people mention ability to almost instantly stream the movie you want, but you can already do that using torrents. It's called sequential downloading. After buffering a few % of the whole torrent, you can start watching it with VLC (not sure if other players support it).
- modo_ 13y ago
  Sequential downloading is considered by many to be bad for the health of the torrent [1], and many developers refuse to implement it into their software/libraries [2]. [1] http://wiki.vuze.com/w/Sequential_downloading_is_bad http://wiki.vuze.com/w/Sequential_downloading_is_bad [2] https://trac.transmissionbt.com/ticket/452 https://trac.transmissionbt.com/ticket/452
  - gcb0 13y ago
    That is just silly. It will make the download slower for the majority of people in some weird cases (i.e. bastards that download and stop right away when done, making the end of the files really rare) That said, I have 7 torrents of pretty uncommon data that is lingering with missing parts. none of the movies, so i doubt it is because someone used sequential download. Point being, for movies and music, where sequential download would make sense, there is lots of interest so it is harder to be missing pieces.
    - krisdol 13y ago
      Sequential downloading defeats one of the primary goals of torrents: to make rare data common. If only one peer has chunk ae986f6ea789 of a torrent, it makes sense that you'd want to download that chunk first in case the peer disconnects before it's fully seeded. Even with movies/music, 70% of the peers may have the first 70% of the movie downloaded, so if you join the swarm it would make sense to throw you at the final 30% in order to increase potential bandwidth to those chunks. I also see overall speed going down as too many peers are requesting the same chunks, when they could be getting other chunks at higher speeds
      - 13y ago
possibilistic 13y ago
> I can be watching a movie 60 seconds after thinking of it. Is that at all legal? Unless you mean films that have fallen into the public domain or that remain unlicensed in your nation or jurisdiction, I'm pretty sure this is unlawful. If there aren't laws on the books yet concerning a 3rd party service downloading or hosting pirated content on one's behalf yet, I would still consider this to be unethical behavior. Does put.io intend to share the business tactics of MegaUpload? (ie. looking the other way concerning how many users will make use of the service?) I don't mean to sound belligerent. I feel this is an angle that would be good to discuss.
- chc 13y ago
  Considering it probably wouldn't be any more legal the slower way, I can't see how that question is salient.
  - RexRollman 13y ago
    Because instead of an annonymous user, there is now a company to sue. I don't see them lasting unless they create copyright controls that will make most people not want to use them.
    - cx42net 13y ago
      They exists for over 4-5 years now (I don't remember exactly the first time I discovered this service, but it was around that time). I believe the are located in an area where legislations are less strict and they can do this without having any problems.
      - RexRollman 13y ago
        That would explain it. Thank you.
- edraferi 13y ago
  I have to agree. the service clearly targets people who want to access consumer video torrents, and much of that content is pirated. they avoid some problems by requiring everyone to pay directly. Megaupload really got into trouble for their affiliate programs, which essentially paid people to upload pirated content. Those programs drove a whole industry in Vietnam. They clearly keep track of unique torrents across users because they provide the instant download feature. Thus they should be able to respond to DMCA requests quickly. By the same token, they may come under legal pressure to disclose user information about accounts that accessed successfully DMCA'd files. There are legitimate uses for Bit torrent though, and this service seems like it would benefit the health of ecosystem as a whole. They'll probably seed a lot of data, maybe especially rare data. That would be helpful for things like big scientific datasets that often end up hosted on some .edu FTP site.
kang 13y ago
movies.io integrates great with put.io. Watch a trailer, click, watch the movie!
- lectrick 13y ago
  how, exactly?
- FredericJ 13y ago
  Hey, I was one of the movies.io guys. We did remove the torrenting part of the website more than a year ago. Before that, you could indeed pick a film, download the torrent in the cloud and directly stream it from our web interface. Good old days but we all moved on to new challenges.
- carbuncle 13y ago
  What special development is required to get a site working with put.io, isn't that the job of the chrome plugin ? I would love to make http://tormovies.org/ http://tormovies.org/ compatible for registered put.io users

steeve 13y ago

Then 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 ago
Useless 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 ago
  So 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 ago
    It'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"

gramsey 13y ago

I will also heartily voice my love of this service. It has totally changed the way I view movies and TV shows. I'm a technically-inclined person, but I really don't want to spend hours fiddling with torrents. The instant torrent completion is an absolutely killer feature. The UI is easy to use and dead simple. The developers regularly update the site and let us know when there are disruptions. I'm a "broke" college student, and to be honest, out of all of the online services I pay money for, this is the one I think the least about before purchasing.

steelaz 13y ago

A lot of people mention ability to almost instantly stream the movie you want, but you can already do that using torrents. It's called sequential downloading. After buffering a few % of the whole torrent, you can start watching it with VLC (not sure if other players support it).

modo_ 13y ago
Sequential downloading is considered by many to be bad for the health of the torrent [1], and many developers refuse to implement it into their software/libraries [2]. [1] http://wiki.vuze.com/w/Sequential_downloading_is_bad http://wiki.vuze.com/w/Sequential_downloading_is_bad [2] https://trac.transmissionbt.com/ticket/452 https://trac.transmissionbt.com/ticket/452
- gcb0 13y ago
  That is just silly. It will make the download slower for the majority of people in some weird cases (i.e. bastards that download and stop right away when done, making the end of the files really rare) That said, I have 7 torrents of pretty uncommon data that is lingering with missing parts. none of the movies, so i doubt it is because someone used sequential download. Point being, for movies and music, where sequential download would make sense, there is lots of interest so it is harder to be missing pieces.
  - krisdol 13y ago
    Sequential downloading defeats one of the primary goals of torrents: to make rare data common. If only one peer has chunk ae986f6ea789 of a torrent, it makes sense that you'd want to download that chunk first in case the peer disconnects before it's fully seeded. Even with movies/music, 70% of the peers may have the first 70% of the movie downloaded, so if you join the swarm it would make sense to throw you at the final 30% in order to increase potential bandwidth to those chunks. I also see overall speed going down as too many peers are requesting the same chunks, when they could be getting other chunks at higher speeds
    - 13y ago

possibilistic 13y ago

> I can be watching a movie 60 seconds after thinking of it. Is that at all legal? Unless you mean films that have fallen into the public domain or that remain unlicensed in your nation or jurisdiction, I'm pretty sure this is unlawful. If there aren't laws on the books yet concerning a 3rd party service downloading or hosting pirated content on one's behalf yet, I would still consider this to be unethical behavior. Does put.io intend to share the business tactics of MegaUpload? (ie. looking the other way concerning how many users will make use of the service?) I don't mean to sound belligerent. I feel this is an angle that would be good to discuss.

chc 13y ago
Considering it probably wouldn't be any more legal the slower way, I can't see how that question is salient.
- RexRollman 13y ago
  Because instead of an annonymous user, there is now a company to sue. I don't see them lasting unless they create copyright controls that will make most people not want to use them.
  - cx42net 13y ago
    They exists for over 4-5 years now (I don't remember exactly the first time I discovered this service, but it was around that time). I believe the are located in an area where legislations are less strict and they can do this without having any problems.
    - RexRollman 13y ago
      That would explain it. Thank you.
edraferi 13y ago
I have to agree. the service clearly targets people who want to access consumer video torrents, and much of that content is pirated. they avoid some problems by requiring everyone to pay directly. Megaupload really got into trouble for their affiliate programs, which essentially paid people to upload pirated content. Those programs drove a whole industry in Vietnam. They clearly keep track of unique torrents across users because they provide the instant download feature. Thus they should be able to respond to DMCA requests quickly. By the same token, they may come under legal pressure to disclose user information about accounts that accessed successfully DMCA'd files. There are legitimate uses for Bit torrent though, and this service seems like it would benefit the health of ecosystem as a whole. They'll probably seed a lot of data, maybe especially rare data. That would be helpful for things like big scientific datasets that often end up hosted on some .edu FTP site.

kang 13y ago

movies.io integrates great with put.io. Watch a trailer, click, watch the movie!

lectrick 13y ago
how, exactly?
FredericJ 13y ago
Hey, I was one of the movies.io guys. We did remove the torrenting part of the website more than a year ago. Before that, you could indeed pick a film, download the torrent in the cloud and directly stream it from our web interface. Good old days but we all moved on to new challenges.
carbuncle 13y ago
What special development is required to get a site working with put.io, isn't that the job of the chrome plugin ? I would love to make http://tormovies.org/ http://tormovies.org/ compatible for registered put.io users