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BitTorrent’s Secure Dropbox Alternative Goes Public

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Re: BitTorrent’s Secure Dropbox Alternative Goes Public

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Post by deelowe »

k2enemy wrote: post #98
buro9 wrote: post #9

Really nice, but the thing is... Dropbox has gone beyond just file sharing. One example: I used to use Flickr for photo sharing, but cameras got better, images got bigger, and I have a lot of photos. I moved from Flickr to Picasa as it could cope with the directories full of photos and I didn't have to manually upload them and Google's storage space was cheaper. Then I ran out of space... over 100GB of photos, where…

> And consumers are not thinking in terms of encrypted sync, they're just thinking in terms of "I just want to do X, why is it so hard", and so I can't see this (very nice) solution really solving the problems that consumers have, that will make them prioritise security. I have a use case that is pretty common among my peer group and BT Sync has been the best solution I've been able to find. In a nutshell, I need to…

What about crashplan?

Re: BitTorrent’s Secure Dropbox Alternative Goes Public

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Post by mtgx »

nostromo wrote: post #83
buro9 wrote: post #9

Really nice, but the thing is... Dropbox has gone beyond just file sharing. One example: I used to use Flickr for photo sharing, but cameras got better, images got bigger, and I have a lot of photos. I moved from Flickr to Picasa as it could cope with the directories full of photos and I didn't have to manually upload them and Google's storage space was cheaper. Then I ran out of space... over 100GB of photos, where…

Sharing photos was solved for the 99% by Facebook & Apple & Google. If you're a photographer with gobs of high resolution photos Dropbox is perfect for you, but I imagine that is a niche pain point. What is a much bigger opportunity is a way that easily lets groups share music and movies. This cannot be solved by a centralized service like Dropbox for legal reasons. This is what would concern me if I was Dropbox; BTS…

You can auto-sync high-res photos in Google+, too, but it ounts in the 5 GB free storage you have.

Re: BitTorrent’s Secure Dropbox Alternative Goes Public

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Post by manishsharan »

jmillikin wrote: post #80
manishsharan wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I would respectfully disagree with what you seem to be implying. This service would mostly be used by us who are wary about trusting Google/Microsoft/Dropbox and the judgement of their automated decision systems with our life . Yesterday there was a HN story about a guy who got kicked off Google Docs because an automated program was trolling/mining through their users files and its judgement was not to be questioned…

> Yesterday there was a HN story about a guy who got > kicked off Google Docs because an automated program was > trolling/mining through their users files and its > judgement was not to be questioned by mere mortals. Wasn't that the user who was using a Docs form/spreadsheet to collect passwords from his customers? Google has stated that such forms are reviewed manually after being reported (for example, http://produ…

I think you have your facts wrong. The topic I mentioned about the Google Docs user being summarily ejected was discussed here : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5591133

The link you submitted was a genuine scammer issue which was reported by users and dealt with correctly by Google.

Re: BitTorrent’s Secure Dropbox Alternative Goes Public

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Post by mtgx »

webwanderings wrote: post #71
buro9 wrote: post #9

Really nice, but the thing is... Dropbox has gone beyond just file sharing. One example: I used to use Flickr for photo sharing, but cameras got better, images got bigger, and I have a lot of photos. I moved from Flickr to Picasa as it could cope with the directories full of photos and I didn't have to manually upload them and Google's storage space was cheaper. Then I ran out of space... over 100GB of photos, where…

I pretty much agree. Correct me if I'm wrong but Dropbox were the first to have come up with Camera Upload feature, which basically makes any average user go trouble free with their cellphones, tablets, snapping away photographs knowing that they will be ready on their desktop to view if they want to. Google+ does that too now, but this is in fact a killer feature which has been adopted well by the average folks out…

Unless it was launched more than 2 years ago, then the Google+ app had it first.

Re: BitTorrent’s Secure Dropbox Alternative Goes Public

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Post by pwelch »

gdw2 wrote: post #28

I'm excited that they support ARM so that we can install it on raspberries, routers, etc.

Agreed. I think that is a pretty good move for adoption. My QNAP NAS has always played well with bittorrent and backups. Adding ARM support means you can use this in a bunch of low power devices.

Re: BitTorrent’s Secure Dropbox Alternative Goes Public

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Post by kzrdude »

namityadav wrote: post #5

We're looking at AeroFS and BitTorrent Sync for sharing sensitive files with our team members. We're leaning towards BS mainly because this feels completely P2P, whereas AeroFS may become useless if the company shuts down. Is that right? I'd love to hear from someone who has used both of these about stability, sync conflicts, CPU load etc. Also would love to hear about plans to open source BS.

Did you look at git-annex? Its developer is working on an easier to use multiplatform UI.

Re: BitTorrent’s Secure Dropbox Alternative Goes Public

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Post by ekimekim »

AnthonyMouse wrote: post #81
slg wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That might very well rule Sync out for personal use by the general public. The benefit of Dropbox (and similar server backed services) is that the most up-to-date version of a file is simply there as soon as you are connected to the Internet. Most people who have two computers won’t be using them both at the same time. For example, a common use case for these services is syncing files while you are traveling. Requiri…

I haven't yet looked to see how this service works so correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems that you could solve this problem by either leaving the desktop turned on (so that it syncs immediately whenever the laptop changes), or coordinating with the IT department and having them do the same using a file server the desktop will have access to (which IT departments will like because it makes it easier to centralize ba…

This is indeed the solution. If you need the feature "needs to work without needing both computers on at the same time", add a third computer that IS always on. Might cost you a small amount of money on say EC2 or something, but probably cheaper than drop box.

Re: BitTorrent’s Secure Dropbox Alternative Goes Public

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Post by joshaidan »

What I think will be an interesting use case for this technology is public file sharing.

If I want to share files with the general public I could just give them a read-only key and then they'll have a folder that syncs with whatever files I put into it. It's a new way of content distribution.

Will this be how people distribute music and TV shows?

Will this be the way people subscribe to content in the future?

I could be a game developer, and I could give my users a read-only key to download my game and at the same time they'll receive any updates I make to the game when I update the files in the folder.

Re: BitTorrent’s Secure Dropbox Alternative Goes Public

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Post by jmillikin »

manishsharan wrote: post #103
jmillikin wrote: post #80

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Yesterday there was a HN story about a guy who got > kicked off Google Docs because an automated program was > trolling/mining through their users files and its > judgement was not to be questioned by mere mortals. Wasn't that the user who was using a Docs form/spreadsheet to collect passwords from his customers? Google has stated that such forms are reviewed manually after being reported (for example, http://produ…

I think you have your facts wrong. The topic I mentioned about the Google Docs user being summarily ejected was discussed here : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5591133 The link you submitted was a genuine scammer issue which was reported by users and dealt with correctly by Google.

That is the story I was talking about.

The link in my post is just a citation as evidence that account suspension is a manual process.

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