Careful with the .io domain, though I've never heard of them shutting down a startup over content, their rules do state:<p><pre><code> 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.
</code></pre>
The "laws of any Nation" could be a rather onerous clause one <i>hopes</i> never gets called upon. It has happened for .ly domains...
Just FYI, on the register pages (<a href="http://put.io/register/BASIC" rel="nofollow">http://put.io/register/BASIC</a>) you display the SSL Verified seal but the form isn't actually sent via SSL. You might want to fix that.
So what happens when copyright holders see a bunch of put.io IP addresses connected to the bit torrent swarm? Or will it be a game of whack a mole? Just interested in the general legality. I suppose no one can really monitor the downloads from random sites like megaupload... will sites like that begin to actively monitor and disable downloads from services like these (as they circumvent the ads)..?
In fact, Xunlei, the download software that has most users in the world, does a much better job for a much lower price (10GB for 15 USD per year). But you have to be able to read Chinese...<a href="http://vip.xunlei.com/freedom/lixian.html" rel="nofollow">http://vip.xunlei.com/freedom/lixian.html</a>
What I like about put.io is that if somebody else already downloaded the same torrent, your download is instantaneous.<p>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…
Either I missed it, or am a little dim this monday morning but it took me reading the whole landing page to actually figure out what it did. A "torrent gofer".<p>I am confused at the value though except for the remote control aspect. I can torrent at speeds that saturate my ISP or I can download from put.io and saturate my channel, either way it amounts to the same time. And I have to pay for the intermediate storage? The one benefit I see is when a torrent is slow and the person wanting the file doesn't have a computer available to cover the download period, put.io act as a store and forward server. Possibly if the client->put.io is https then this solves a problem whereby ISP's track the port usage. I suppose torrent->https is an advantage for some.
Seems like they're solving a similar problem to what I'm trying to with ntor. This is obviously way more built out and polished, though.<p><a href="https://github.com/davidbanham/ntor" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/davidbanham/ntor</a><p>I'm very keen to check out their social sharing aspects. Pity they don't seem to have a mechanism for ad-hoc search.
Awesome. Went from free plan to basic and then to $10/month in 30 minutes.<p>Integration with movies.io is amazing. And they will automatically download Daily Show from rss feed...<p>Already downgraded my netflix to 1 movie.
I don't understand these services. If I'm going to have to download the thing anyway, why put another layer in the middle? It's always going to take less time to download directly.
I don't understand how they made the service so blazing fast so much so that the moment I pasted a magnet link in, the next second I could direct download from it.
The torrents I add aren't being downloaded; they've been stuck at 0% for around 20 minutes now. Is it just under heavier-than-usual load?<p>Edit: never mind, working as expected now.
put.io is the best start-up which I have joined as a customer. Cheap, fast and simple service. Also, put.io accepts free users for 1G. Everybody must try.
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").<p>Something similar happened with "webOS" and every spanish forum were making jokes about it.