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There's just no way in hell I would ever use this without VERY good assurances that my credit card will never be linked to what I download. There's about a billion ways that could happen, EVEN IF put.io has no intention of ever releasing that information. Are they sure they won't be hacked? why? Are they sure they wouldn't have to give up my information based on a public, lawful gov't inquiry? What about a secret, un…
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Bitcoin can be used anonymously (Tor, encryption, mixers). > It not CamelCased either Thanks.
You'll leak somewhere. Everyone does.
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> 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.…
Depends where you are in the world. In my country(Poland) downloading any material for your own use is 100% legal.
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'm pretty sure the legality depends on WHAT you're torrenting. Is it illegal to torrent ubuntu anywhere?
how are the dealing with legal issues?
Wait, I don't get it. This is basically the same as running a server with a torrent daemon (like Transmission) on it, except you pay them instead of get your own server? Also their arguments are somewhat invalid: > People sharing your internet connection. They hate you! With put.io, you won't disturb them, because you won't be hogging all the bandwidth. It doesn't matter whether I download 18GB from http(s) or from a…
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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)
I guess they would, but this is a matter of providing that speed. I don't think 128+ Mb/s is very common, usually caps around 100 Mb/s in a lot of areas.
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so, you have like a 128 Mb/s connection or something?..
Fast internet is not uncommon in The Netherlands. UPC[1] have 50, 120 and 200 Mb/s internet connections. [1]: http://www.upc.nl/internet/abonnementen/
