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Re: Upload files using torrents to your personal space with Put.io

#15
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Careful with the .io domain, though I've never heard of them shutting down a startup over content, their rules do state: No .IO domain may be used, directly or indirectly, for any purpose that is sexual or pornographic or that is against the statutory laws of any Nation. The "laws of any Nation" could be a rather onerous clause one hopes never gets called upon. It has happened for .ly domains...

Link to those rules: http://www.nic.io/rules.html

Re: Upload files using torrents to your personal space with Put.io

#17
post #5

Careful with the .io domain, though I've never heard of them shutting down a startup over content, their rules do state: No .IO domain may be used, directly or indirectly, for any purpose that is sexual or pornographic or that is against the statutory laws of any Nation. The "laws of any Nation" could be a rather onerous clause one hopes never gets called upon. It has happened for .ly domains...

I own the putio.com domain and they approached me when they first launched to buy it, presumably to redirect to put.io but maybe because of these rules.

Re: Upload files using torrents to your personal space with Put.io

#18
What I like about put.io is that if somebody else already downloaded the same torrent, your download is instantaneous.

Of course, you still have to download the file from put.io, which can itself takes ages (at least from here in Japan). I guess you'll always have bottlenecks somewhere…

Re: Upload files using torrents to your personal space with Put.io

#20
I really hope you are not trying to reach the spanish market... because "Putio" sounds way too much like an spanish slang word (hard to explain, lets says its a verbalized version of what in english would be "b*tch").

Something similar happened with "webOS" and every spanish forum were making jokes about it.

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