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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 pistoriusp »

mtgx wrote: post #102
nostromo wrote: post #83

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Images that are 2048x2048 and below don't consume space on Google drive.

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Post by Xanza »

Honestly, I really don't think BTSync should be compared to dropbox, it sends the wrong message. When people say 'dropbox alternative' people immediately think "Oh cool, so it can do everything dropbox can do?" Which we all know isn't the case here.

The best thing about BTSync is it's basically zero configuration. I have it running on 10 of my boxes so far, and it's working amazingly. Far better than dropbox -- however, I only need it to sync files between hardware, not for anything else, like photo sharing, or advanced configuration based sharing. I just want file A, to be on all configured servers.

TL;DR: Don't compare BTSync to Dropbox, it's not a dropbox alternative. It's something completely different, entirely.

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buro9 wrote: post #84
niels_olson wrote: post #66

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Re: BitTorrent’s Secure Dropbox Alternative Goes Public

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Post by muyuu »

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…

It's dropbox but without all the features that creep the fuck out of me and that I need to carefully disable or block.

Dropbox for privacy minded people if you will.

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Post by pessimizer »

mcintyre1994 wrote: post #59
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…

Dropbox's core offering boils down to file sync + cloud sync. There's many use cases where that's what you want - access on whatever devices you have the app installed on, and also over the web. Cloud sync leads to storage limits (which don't make sense as a consumer for file sync, but are necessary for large scale cloud sync) and centralisation (desirable for vast access, not so much for some situations). BT sync is…

Is there anyone interested in cloud sync for its own sake? In other words, if the entire thing works seamlessly and identically in-house, and assuming a disciplined backup strategy, is there anybody going "But if it were in someone else's data center, that'd be so much better!"

BT sync sounds like a complete replacement for dropbox for people with the skills and willingness to set it up.

Re: BitTorrent’s Secure Dropbox Alternative Goes Public

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Post by afterburner »

tteam wrote: post #135
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…

If you are a photographer, Our Tonido ( http://www.tonido.com ) solution is simply perfect. It is not expensive as dropbox, and no storage limits, supports variety of photo formats (JPEG, PNG, GIF, CR2, NEF, CRW and more). As dropbox, we have good mobile apps for all the popular platforms. Pretty much majority of our paid users are photographers.

Oh, it's "unlimited storage" because it's remotely accessing your computer, so your computer is the storage. An interesting workaround.

Re: BitTorrent’s Secure Dropbox Alternative Goes Public

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Post by alyandon »

Dropbox is the only cloud sync client that I've found so far that has decent support for hosting TrueCrypt containers. It's unfortunate that my particular use case is so narrow because I can't really consider something to be a dropbox replacement unless it:

1) has a fully supported client on Windows, OS X and Linux

2) has that capability to sync with mobile devices

3) uses the native file system apis available on each platform to avoid doing scans on large numbers of files looking for changes by the last modified timestamp (so I don't have to disable the TrueCrypt feature that avoids updating the timestamp on containers)

4) transmits only the changed content of the file instead of the entire file (so I don't have to transmit the entire TrueCrypt container when only some blocks in the container have been modified)

Has anyone ran across a service that would allow me to utilize TrueCrypt volumes as easily as DropBox does across the major desktop operating systems?

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Post by twoodfin »

joshaidan wrote: post #109

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…

This is indeed a great technology. The "push" analog to the original BitTorrent's "pull". But there's also potential for abuse (or greater freedom depending on how you look at it!). Say I create a sync folder containing a bunch of popular films and then widely distribute the read-only key. Thousands subscribe. Now I have access to what amounts to a botnet that will widely distribute whatever content I see fit to deposit, more or less untraceably because the P2P network is so huge, and I or my co-conspirators can insert or retrieve content from any part of it.

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Post by afterburner »

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…

224 photos?

I need a solution for on the order of 40,000... for which Flickr is perfect, since there is no storage limit, just a very small flat fee.

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