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Re: Put.io

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Post by slashdotaccount »

exDM69 wrote: post #170
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…

> The vast majority of people will be using this to watch movies they don't feel like paying for. There's also a huge population of people around the world who get access to movies, TV shows and other media only after a significant delay and use this kind of services to get access to that media on the day it is released. Those living in the US may not realize it but there's no amount of money you can pay to get the h…

Why your torrent service is clumsy? Find one that is better.

Re: Put.io

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Post by ojii »

k-mcgrady wrote: post #187
fauigerzigerk wrote: post #145

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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…

>> "There simply is no Netflix in most parts of the world that gives you reliable access to a huge movie library for peanuts." True but you can still get movies via DVD or VHS is those places. e.g. If I don't have access to Spotify it does't give me a valid excuse to pirate. I can still purchase through iTunes or buy CD's.

I'd not really consider DVD/CDs as the same thing as digital downloads. I'd love to purchase digital movies/music, but there's no way I'll buy a CD/DVD as they're useless to me.

Re: Put.io

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Post by slashdotaccount »

izolate wrote: post #188
mikevm wrote: post #159

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You forgot the best reason: - It links all your downloaded content directly to your credit card, thus incriminating you.

That in itself is the sole reason why I'm out. Put.io in general looks interesting however.

Use BitCoin.

Re: Put.io

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Post by IE5point5 »

neurostimulant wrote: post #48
notfed wrote: post #7

"With put.io...you won't be hogging all the bandwidth." - How could this possibly save bandwidth?

Many people use ISP-provided router that choked when there are a lot of open connections. A torrent client will usually try to open as many connections as possible, pushing the router to the limit. Under that condition, if another user join the network and tried to browse the internet, he'll encounter a lot of connection timeout error. The only way to avoid this issue is to configure the torrent client to play nice (…

Just set a number of connections in your client that the router can handle. Problem solved.

Re: Put.io

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Post by Juice10 »

joris wrote: post #150

I use http://subliss.com and it works pretty great for videos. They offer free trials through this link: https://subliss.com/users/sign_up

Love this service, the UI is pretty slick

Re: Put.io

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Post by leoedin »

ceol wrote: post #182
fauigerzigerk wrote: post #178

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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.

That really does nothing to disprove my point that people who can't afford movies (either purchasing, or importing, or renting in iTunes) are also extremely unlikely to be able to afford broadband internet and a modern computer and be knowledgeable enough to handle a cloud-based torrent client.

The cost of providing an internet connection tends to adjust to the market. There's countless testimonies on this thread to that effect. The different regulatory environment, lower cost of labour and less entrenched monopolies in less developed countries mean that connections are cheaper.

Knowledge is basically free. Anyone with an internet connection and a PC made in the last 10 years (not particularly hard to come by, even with very little money) can be knowledgeable enough. Equating wealth with knowledge is foolish.

Re: Put.io

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Post by supersystem »

hayksaakian wrote: post #160
mayneack wrote: post #91

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

Given that they show episodes and screenshots of TV show torrents on the home page, this throws all plausible deniability out the window.

The episodes in the screenshots are creative commons licensed, distributed by donation based service http://vodo.net

Re: Put.io

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Post by steinnes »

andreasvc wrote: post #185
krisdol wrote: post #149

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Sequential downloading defeats one of the primary goals of torrents: to make rare data common. If only one peer has chunk ae986f6ea789 of a torrent, it makes sense that you'd want to download that chunk first in case the peer disconnects before it's fully seeded. Even with movies/music, 70% of the peers may have the first 70% of the movie downloaded, so if you join the swarm it would make sense to throw you at the fi…

This argument is moot when you're streaming some blockbuster movie, there will not be any rare chunks to speak of. The client could implement a threshold where sequential downloading is only switched on when there are x number of seeders.

But BitTorrent wasn't invented to stream movies.
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