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Re: Put.io

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Post by jamesaguilar »

pfisch wrote: post #86
silvertab wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

One advantage is to instantly stream video files for most torrents. If someone else on put.io downloaded a given torrent before you, it's available for streaming in mp4 immediately (and that's the case for most torrents I've added to put.io)

That is only going to work for a lower quality feed though. Even the best streams from netflix are not as good as an actual 720p high bitrate video. You would need to be able to stream at a consistent 6 mb/s minimum to even start to stream at even 720. If you want a low quality video like what you are talking about you can literally download it in like 1 minute at 16 mb/s so there is really very little reason to stre…

5 MB/s is 40 Mb/s, so put.io is fine for both 720p and 1080p instant streaming on my connection.

Re: Put.io

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Post by gcb0 »

krisdol wrote: post #149
gcb0 wrote: post #119

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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 sequenti…

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…

So people with non-sequential download would get the end first and have the higher share ratio on the tracker.

why enforce it though? Leechers will be leechers.

Re: Put.io

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Post by PhearTheCeal »

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.

Buy a pre-paid Visa card with cash.

Re: Put.io

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Post by merry-year »

jmagoon wrote: post #260
merry-year wrote: post #251

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Enjoyment >> freedom /s Plus the artists who create the content get a miniscule part of your purchase money.

So they should get none instead?

There are alternatives - e.g. instead of band albums buy overpriced T-Shirts on their official web site.

Re: Put.io

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Post by foobarqux »

steelaz wrote: post #107
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.

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).

Unfortunately most videos available via torrent typically aren't designed to be streamed. Bitrate and seeking are the two big problems.

Enabling seeking requires logic on the client side to retrieve seek tables as well as encoding that facilitates seeking when streaming.

Re: Put.io

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Post by dfc »

parandroid wrote: post #205
ceol wrote: post #181

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If a $20 DVD isn't affordable, $20/mo internet isn't. (I'm also fairly skeptical that your average DVD movie is $20, as though that's the absolute lowest you'll ever pay.) Movies aren't a God-given right, so it's not like you deserve a set amount of movies per month. Even then, while that situation is certainly more excusable, you're still the minority . That site isn't made for the Eastern European lower class who c…

I have a cheap internet connection (16Mbit, ~$13/month), and I'm not a minority. In my country, having an internet connection that's speedy enough for video streaming is not a luxury. And yet, I can't even buy anything off iTunes, Google Play Store, not to mention Netflix and other similar services. In fact, we even got PayPal only in mid 2013 (and not even the full service - we can only send money and can't receive…

Is there a discipline that starts footnotes at 0?

Re: Put.io

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Post by x0054 »

For $15 a year you can get a crappy little VPS with 20 gigs of disk and 200GB/month connection. Install transmission on it and use it as a seed box. On popular torrents you can get 4-7mbps transfer speeds. Have the files saved once done to a folder that you share via BT Sync, and the files will automatically move to your computer once done. Just another solution.

Re: Put.io

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Post by elwell »

fauigerzigerk wrote: post #145
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.

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…

So you if you can't afford it, you're allowed to steal it. That makes sense.

Re: Put.io

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Post by tr4656 »

x0054 wrote: post #278

For $15 a year you can get a crappy little VPS with 20 gigs of disk and 200GB/month connection. Install transmission on it and use it as a seed box. On popular torrents you can get 4-7mbps transfer speeds. Have the files saved once done to a folder that you share via BT Sync, and the files will automatically move to your computer once done. Just another solution.

Might as well pay a bit more and get a seedbox. Most VPS won't all you to torrent in their TOS.
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