Earlier quoted context omitted.
Gets 5 MB/s to me in CA.
Usenet is like 16+ MB/s What is the point of this?
I 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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#112Anyone 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...
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#114It 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 understand the ethically shady bit but... how does it weaken the case against DRM? Surely it just continues to demonstrate how useless it is as a strategy?
He never said it was unethical.
He said that doing illegal things with these torrents will only give the corporations/ones in power more leeway into getting politicians to pass laws that require DRM, violate our privacy, etc.
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#115I 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.
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
[2] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQiC62ig3N0
Edit: wrong url
Re: Put.io
#116It 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.
It honestly is not an issue, in my opinion. put.io just seems like a low-cost seedbox. https://whatbox.ca/ has existed for eons and is primarily used to pirate music and it hasn't been shut down.
Re: Put.io
#117I 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).
Check out XBMCtorrent then :)
http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=174736
EDIT: wrong url
Re: Put.io
#118For 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
[2] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQiC62ig3N0
EDIT: URL was wrong
Re: Put.io
#119Earlier quoted context omitted.
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
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.