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Re: Put.io

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Post by sillysaurus2 »

gcb0 wrote: post #126
genu1 wrote: post #121

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I am. Anyone know details about the founders? Are these guys trying to make a statement, or out to make a buck? In which case, selling the data about its users would be a great monetization model.

Like it matters... It could have been founded my mother Theresa. It would still be a sweet place for the MAFIAA tugs to drop DMCA requests, or whatever those abuses are called nowadays, by the truckload on their heads.

It would still be a sweet place for the MAFIAA tugs to drop DMCA requests, or whatever those abuses are called nowadays

How are DMCA requests inherently abuses?

Re: Put.io

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Post by ubercow13 »

diminoten wrote: post #76
baddox wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Took me 3 minutes to get put.io working. Name one seedbox provider that can be set up that quickly.

Most of them. You pay and are chucked straight into a client web UI usually.

Re: Put.io

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Post by yueq »

duochrome wrote: post #47

You never heard of Xunlei? It's a Chinese product and it's like just $20 a year. Xunlei has a huge network and it's very likely the content you want is already in their server and has been encoded.

Glad someone mentioned this company. Their services are banned outside China mainland cause of copyright concerns.

Re: Put.io

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Post by possibilistic »

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.

> 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.

Re: Put.io

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Post by icebraining »

dmix wrote: post #19

Does it support magnet links? This is an issue with remote servers hosting rtorrent.

Why would they have issues? rtorrent has supported magnet links for a long time now.

Re: Put.io

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Post by inanov »

When you have some slow peers along with a lousy internet connection, put.io really helps. with my upload speeds (makes 56K jealous), to seed a torrent up to a meaningful ratio, i should wait forever. put.io helps me with this and many other stuff. besides that, they recently added a server to my city, which boosted my usage.

Besides the torrents, they catch rss feeds, podcasts faster than I do, and I just stream it, if I need any subtitles, I just upload them (or fetch from open subtitles) and there they are.

I love their service and will keep supporting them, and recommend to anyone I know.

Re: Put.io

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Post by pritambaral »

sillysaurus2 wrote: post #131
gcb0 wrote: post #126

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Like it matters... It could have been founded my mother Theresa. It would still be a sweet place for the MAFIAA tugs to drop DMCA requests, or whatever those abuses are called nowadays, by the truckload on their heads.

It would still be a sweet place for the MAFIAA tugs to drop DMCA requests, or whatever those abuses are called nowadays How are DMCA requests inherently abuses?

Because DMCA makes itself easy to be abused. Off the top of my head, I can remember Microsoft asking Google to take down results to OpenOffice[1]. The first Google result for "DMCA Abuse" reveals this:[2]

[1] http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/08/16/microsoft_dmca_taked...

[2] https://www.eff.org/press/releases/fifteen-years-dmca-abuse

EDIT: They aren't "inherently" abuses. They are easily used as such.

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