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Re: Put.io

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Post by tomp »

aragot wrote: post #142
Nursie wrote: post #123

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No he said it would weaken the case, I was wondering how. If piracy stops people will say DRM works and they need more powers to really cement it in place. If piracy continues then people will say they need more DRM to stop it. I cannot see how the existence of this site (or other torrent services) weakens the case against DRM.

If there is piracy, more laws will be passed, possibly ending up axing every category of Internet usage.

But that is making the case against such laws stronger!

Re: Put.io

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Post by woodylondon »

My concern with this is that they will have your credit card details / address information. At a later stage should they have a big legal problem (which I suspect they will) the lawyers will come directly after you. It's a great idea, and if it was for legal use only, but you know what people are really going to use it for!

Re: Put.io

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Post by ceol »

delackner wrote: post #168
ceol wrote: post #161

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Let's not delude ourselves into thinking the people who are in group (b) are the ones who have enough money to afford a high-bandwidth internet connection, a modern computer, and the knowledge to know what torrents and the accompanying technology are. The vast majority of people will be using this to watch movies they don't feel like paying for. There might be a handful who genuinely can't access it, who have no way…

How we treat minority groups is important in part because they are so easily ignored. There are real people around the world who yes, have reliable fast internet (something much more common outside the US) and yet are denied legal access to the media they would happily pay for. Now, you can suggest that they should just not consume content that is not available to them, but that is like saying just don't participate…

Yes, it is important, which is why affluent first worlders shouldn't hold them up as poster children for their pet cause of not wanting to purchase things.

Re: Put.io

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Post by adrinavarro »

msoad wrote: post #58

These are the reasons put.io is awesome: - It caches torrents that other people downloaded(popular torrents) so if you add them, they are in your library immediately - You can subscribe to RSS feeds of TV shows from showrss.info without needing to download every show individually - You can install the XBMC app to access you content there - A REST API? Yup! They have it! - It converts videos to MP4 on their cloud - Yo…

Hey! Someone uses showRSS! Glad you like it :D

Re: Put.io

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Post by rplnt »

Tehnix wrote: post #127
pfisch wrote: post #44

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

so, you have like a 128 Mb/s connection or something?..

Would it be that strange for HN folks? I'd imagine people from this community would be willing to get the best, or at least the fastest connection available.

(I think I'm an exception, I have the lowest available option from my ISP, 40MBit)

Re: Put.io

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Post by adrinavarro »

RealGeek wrote: post #15

I was disappointed by Put.io in the past, it over promised and under delivered. It seemed like an unstable app with very slow speeds. It looks like they have improved since I last used it, I will give it another try. I use http://www.cloudload.com , it is a similar app and works like a charm.

I used them before and I'm trying them again. They now seem to allow you to pick the best mirror available for you, so your ISP's peering is no longer a problem.

Re: Put.io

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Post by fauigerzigerk »

ceol wrote: post #161
fauigerzigerk wrote: post #145

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So there are two groups of people on this planet: (a) Those who download stuff illegally instead of paying like 0.01% of their disposable income per year for it whilst making about as much money as those who have created the content. (b) Those who download stuff illegally instead of having no access at all or paying completely unaffordable fantasy prices for it whilst making only a fraction of those who have created…

Let's not delude ourselves into thinking the people who are in group (b) are the ones who have enough money to afford a high-bandwidth internet connection, a modern computer, and the knowledge to know what torrents and the accompanying technology are. The vast majority of people will be using this to watch movies they don't feel like paying for. There might be a handful who genuinely can't access it, who have no way…

Here's a list of countries by number of broadband internet connections: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_number_of_...

Now, if you like you can work out the intersection with countries that have access to a similarly complete selection of movies at comparable cost to what Netflix offers in the U.S.

You will quickly find out that your "handful" of people is in fact hundereds of millions of people.

Re: Put.io

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Post by antr »

ceol wrote: post #161
fauigerzigerk wrote: post #145

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So there are two groups of people on this planet: (a) Those who download stuff illegally instead of paying like 0.01% of their disposable income per year for it whilst making about as much money as those who have created the content. (b) Those who download stuff illegally instead of having no access at all or paying completely unaffordable fantasy prices for it whilst making only a fraction of those who have created…

Let's not delude ourselves into thinking the people who are in group (b) are the ones who have enough money to afford a high-bandwidth internet connection, a modern computer, and the knowledge to know what torrents and the accompanying technology are. The vast majority of people will be using this to watch movies they don't feel like paying for. There might be a handful who genuinely can't access it, who have no way…

money/income != access to content

Re: Put.io

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Post by esolyt »

xerophtye wrote: post #55

Umm... maybe i am misunderstanding their service, but i fail to see the point. With put.io, a server can torrent the file for me. And then... i stream it from the server... So, my pc still needs that gigabits of transfer, at my usual net speed. Where was the gain? Couldn't i have used the same time to torrent it? In fact i would have to torrent it ONCE, but with put.io i have to stream (and thus effectively download…

> Couldn't i have used the same time to torrent it?

You start streaming immediately if another put.io user already downloaded the same torrent.

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