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Re: Put.io

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Post by patio11 »

mayneack wrote: post #91
TallGuyShort wrote: post #82

It 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.

I'm pretty sure the legality depends on WHAT you're torrenting. Is it illegal to torrent ubuntu anywhere?

I'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.

Re: Put.io

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Post by craigmccaskill »

mayneack wrote: post #95

How 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.

It saves bandwidth because a lot of ISPs track upload and download towards your bandwidth limit. This removes the upload component completely.

Re: Put.io

#104

Post by zmk_ »

Orangeair wrote: post #81

So 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…

They 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.

Re: Put.io

#106

Post by jamesaguilar »

pfisch wrote: post #44
jamesaguilar wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Gets 5 MB/s to me in CA.

Usenet is like 16+ MB/s What is the point of this?

Torrent 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.

Re: Put.io

#107

Post by steelaz »

gfunk911 wrote: post #45

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.

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).

Re: Put.io

#108

Post by lukeholder »

baddox wrote: post #30
kennywinker wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Or 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.

There are seedbox providers which require very little knowledge or effort.

i'll leave this here: what box

Re: Put.io

#109

Post by modo_ »

steelaz wrote: post #107
gfunk911 wrote: post #45

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.

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).

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 [2] https://trac.transmissionbt.com/ticket/452

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