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Re: Put.io

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Post by larrybolt »

adrinavarro wrote: post #236
larrybolt wrote: post #215

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I loved it! And still do, but sadly I moved to a RPi/XBMC/transmission/SickBeard/Couchpotato setup which was very easy to setup using xbian, thus not using showRSS anymore. The raspberry is a bit underpowered (according to me) though, so I'm thinking about replacing SickBeard with showRSS again. Pitty there isn't a good & easy way to do it. (not that I'm afraid of doing it all manually). Perhaps also interesting, bef…

ShowRSS right now works as a piece in the workflow for many people: feed what aired a few hours ago to another system. It hasn't got an archive and it doesn't serve as one. Thus, no option to do what you say… it's meant for the last week or so, not a lot more. It does what it does pretty well, though. The new system reads a few sources (not just EZTV) and picks the best releases. So, 720p for everyone in a matter of…

I agree, it does what it does very very well! And it's not meant as a show-organizer.

minidlna seems like something I'm going to be looking into, thanks! And for dns, I use a domain which I manage using cloudflare and a script [1] which gets run by cron and updates the cloudflare entry every day or so. Didn't wrote the script though, found it somewhere and had to edit it a bit to work again.

Something else I have been looking into is splitting up the load, using the RPi only for streaming and xbmc; and handling downloading and NAS capabilities using a different device, such as a MIKROTIK RouterBOARD (which I'm afraid isn't going to work).

[1]: https://gist.github.com/larrybolt/6295160

Re: Put.io

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Post by brador »

slashdotaccount wrote: post #208
nkuttler wrote: post #199

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Don't overestimate bitcoin's anonymity. Because it's not anonymous. It not CamelCased either. Oh well.

Bitcoin can be used anonymously (Tor, encryption, mixers). > It not CamelCased either Thanks.

You'll leak somewhere. Everyone does.

Re: Put.io

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Post by chippy »

scrabble wrote: post #237

It seems that the company would have a higher level of plausible deniability of their screenshots didn't display torrents of material under copyright.

The materials are released under CC licences.

Re: Put.io

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Post by acdha »

Anderkent wrote: post #202
nkuttler wrote: post #199

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Don't overestimate bitcoin's anonymity. Because it's not anonymous. It not CamelCased either. Oh well.

Uh, you can just push your payment through a mixer and it's effectively anonymous.

Theoretically, assuming that the mixer is perfectly implemented and law enforcement never uses their legal authority to compromise it, and that your records are never acquired by law enforcement.

There's no reason to believe any of those assumptions are true – and once any of them fail, you've helpfully given the prosecutor a detailed, hard-to-deny log of your every transaction.

Re: Put.io

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Post by potato »

scrabble wrote: post #237

It seems that the company would have a higher level of plausible deniability of their screenshots didn't display torrents of material under copyright.

Happy not to see Big Buck Bunny though.

Re: Put.io

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Post by RankingMember »

brador wrote: post #239
edraferi wrote: post #219

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I have to agree. the service clearly targets people who want to access consumer video torrents, and much of that content is pirated. they avoid some problems by requiring everyone to pay directly. Megaupload really got into trouble for their affiliate programs, which essentially paid people to upload pirated content. Those programs drove a whole industry in Vietnam. They clearly keep track of unique torrents across u…

Are they seeding too? or just leaching?

Very good question. I have a feeling it's the latter, because what's in it for them?

Re: Put.io

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Post by larrybolt »

uladzislau wrote: post #42

I was using it for some time until they started to use all kind of tricks to force me to upgrade to the more expensive plans. It started from $5, then I was paying $10 and after the next "upgrade or we remove your account", I cancelled.

I was as well on the $5/month plan, I suspended my account for a little while due to exams, and tried re-activating it just to notice the $5 plan was gone. A few mails with support later they provided me a link to re-activate my 5$ plan. I didn't use it that much though, merely for shows in combination with showRSS.

I have had contact with the support of put.io more than once, and they were always very friendly and helpful. (even if some of the request were things such as "add play.fm support").

The big advantage over anything else I've seen with putio is that populair torrents are downloaded in a matter of seconds (due to someone else already having downloaded it) and the mp4-conversion. Btw, a small tip, instead of using the site itself for watching media which is downloaded, you can stream it directly into VLC or MPlayerX (the later also support streaming youtube video's I believe) which is very very handy!

Just noticed, there is an option for the legacy 10G $5/month account: http://lry.be/WRxO

Re: Put.io

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Post by SimpleXYZ »

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 think the real case should be against anti-piracy. The music and movie industries punish people because they don't like their business model or their product. Copyright laws were created when books were the medium. This is the fundamental key: I can not create 300,000 physical books with three mouse gestures.

Think about how common piracy is. They demand what? 250k for each song downloaded. Multiplied by the number of songs downloaded illegally per day... they feel they are entitled to 600 trillion dollars per year. Does that sound right to you?

Piracy is our new eighteenth amendment.

Re: Put.io

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Post by FredericJ »

kang wrote: post #158
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.

movies.io integrates great with put.io. Watch a trailer, click, watch the movie!

Hey, I was one of the movies.io guys. We did remove the torrenting part of the website more than a year ago.

Before that, you could indeed pick a film, download the torrent in the cloud and directly stream it from our web interface.

Good old days but we all moved on to new challenges.

Re: Put.io

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Post by antjanus »

RankingMember wrote: post #246
brador wrote: post #239

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Are they seeding too? or just leaching?

Very good question. I have a feeling it's the latter, because what's in it for them?

They seed automatically. Based on what subscription you have, they'll maintain a specific ratio. Minimum is 2.0 ratio but better accounts have a 20.0. https://put.io/plans?select=1.1
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