[Turkey] Until now, there’s been a lot of chatter about Put.io in the Turkish tech scene – but no-one had seen it. Today they’ve let us in to have a look at the service.
So imagine a service that downloads files from Rapidshare for you, then saves them on your 50GB Put.io account. Or forget about Rapidshare, maybe it collects files from Bittorrent automatically. Here’s an another example. Put.io lets you watch a DivX video online, without downloading it to your computer, in high quality, and listen to your music files inside your browser.
Put.io will be launched as a paid service. The service is in private beta right now, but they soon plan to accept beta users.
And what if I told you that the service will automatically follow RSS feeds that you give it and save the torrents, MP3 and AVI files included in those feeds automatically? The service works totally on the server side, so its download performance is higher than home connections. Put.io downloads 700 MB files in a few minutes and lets you watch them online.
We tried this. So for instance you can paste a link like this into the servie and store the file
http://rapidshare.com/files/140596948/HD.Wallpaper.Huge.Pack-iAPULA.Tahir.part01.rar
A divx fetch test:
http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.avi/bitcast-a.bitgravity.com/revision3/web/diggnation/0224/diggnation–0224–darkside–large.xvid.avi
A torrent:
http://www.legaltorrents.com/get/91-elephants-dream-1024.torrent
Or some RSS feeds:
http://www.legaltorrents.com/feeds/cat/music.rss
http://revision3.com/diggnation/feed/Xvid-Large
You can reach your files on put.io via iPhone, iPod Touch, all kinds of smart phones, PSP and PlayStation 3, and even convert video files into MP4 format automatically and watch them with your iPhone if you like.
It’s also social in that it lets you share your files on put.io.
As far as I know the closest other product would be Wuala. But, they’ll probably be competing with box.net, BitTorrent and even P2P clients.
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It so makes me smile when I see a new use of technology that makes life easier for consumers *and* will probably make the RIAA and MPAA pop a blood vessel.
If the pricing is competitive then these guys could pick up a whole bunch of subscribers. It’s like a torrent seed box but with added Rapidshare harvester. Nice.
How can we get a beta account? And when the files are downloaded from Rapidshare/torrent to the Put.io database, can we still download the files to our desktop?
It’s now in private beta and yes we’ll be able to download files directly to our computers
Do you have a ball park of what the prices of the services will be like?
You can also download/stream iphone compatible mp4 versions.. brilliant idea!.
I thing there have to be an option for android compatible versions.)
Won’t it be illegal if it copies movies from bittorrents.
Brilliant idea. Actually I thought about it a couple of years ago to (no..really I did!) but gave it up as a life that would spent surrounded by lawyers….
If this gets traction, it will get sooo much heat. Its like the pirateBay on steriods. Imagine being able to remotely download torrents to a remote account..at the end of the day someone is responsible for owning the downloaded content…..
Put.io should provide a paid option to load that 50GB onto a memory stick and mail it. Would be faster than my home broadband.
Actually, I’ve been using Put.io as a beta tester for like a month now,.. Adding new downloads and checking the old ones and putting them in right folders used to take a good one hour of my day,.. Now, I scan good ol’ mininova for like a five minutes and I’m all set for the day.
this definitely innovation and definitely will make a pirateted media consumer’s life easier
now when the technology is ready the team should start thinking about coming up with a way to solve the copyright problem. they should take a look at joost model.
Besides the lawyers, would the Rapidshare “harvester” require paid Rapidshare account too ? Because if not, I’m sure Rapidshare wouldn’t like it too that peoples can freely download file from their servers like that.
nice idea, but guys, do you honestly think you could use this for illegal downloads? as put.io would be reponsible for that data they wont alow you to do that for a long time, and if they do this will be closed down faster as you can blink.
Also das rapidshare feature wont work for long, as rapidshare earns their money by people actually visiting the side, not downloading remotly.
Is this legal? I don’t think so…
Shame about the name……it sounds very similar to a spanish word starting with put…..
drop.io has an ‘upload via url’ function that works the same way… funny that they are using the .io domain name also
“The service works totally on the server side, so its download performance is higher than home connections. Put.io downloads 700 MB files in a few minutes and lets you watch them online”
That’s a silly statement – in order for you to watch/stream it you have to download it to your computer anyways – i.e. Put.io, although attractive does nothing to help improve slow home connections…it sounds to me like a suped-up RapidShare….meh
It cuts down the first downloading process. If your bandwith is enough for streaming, you’ll be enjoying your video in no time,..
Check Binfire.com, http://www.binfire.com . It does a great job with cloud storage and adds collaboration tools on top of that. The basic version is free!
actually a 2mbit connection is enough to stream most HDTV content without disruption. if they get the file fast like they say you’d be able to watch it on a crappy connection
are you crazy ? 2mbit is 250kb/s which is nowhere near HDTV quality. 1080p streaming over my lan is more like 6mbps
i meant those divx’s with the HDTV in the filename. you know 350mb ones.
Hmm – interesting choice of name. Connections to prostitution in several european languages….given the service, maybe it’s deliberate
Apart from the lovely illustration there is no new offerings here – humyo.com has offered all these features for months.
Although do excuse me if they actually download the files from a torrent, from how i gathered it just downloaded the torrent itself for you.
It is very nice and innovative idea. But in Turkey, people don’t think about internet as it has to be a legal media. But they should have been asked legal ways before publishing.
I think this is legal. Storage and lockers like this helps me daily.
Well, imageshack (a US company) downloads torrents without apparent legal problems. This certainly looks like a better service. We’ll see.
Founders of put.io if you see this messege please contact me . E-Mail you can find on our site. I would like to take a little of your time to discuss details that may eventually lead to a proposal.
Yes HD needs something like a whole dedicated 8mbit. You can watch Divx movies in 2mbit.
Put.io seems interesting. But I still wonder the legal part of it.
Everheard of screenshots? These pics you have of it look like they got taken from a computer screen with a camera. Sad. Expected better from TC.
@Anonymous,
Yep. Screenshots ;
http://www.webrazzi.com/2009/10/23/put-ionun-yeni-ekran-goruntuleri-ve-ozel-beta-davetiyeleri/
I am wondering why the author or other supervisor of put.io project are ignoring the questions about law part of it.
I’m a fan of these type of services, the interesting part about this service is that this is already in use by private bit-torrent trackers, users of private tracker websites have been using Bit-torrent seed box to speed up the downloading by using a remote machine, installed in a 100 mbits VPS Linux server with a bit-torrent client called r-torrent or transmission client with web Interface enabled so you can access the bit-torrent GUI through http ! from here you only need to provide the .torrent file thus you get fast download, when download completes you can just use sFTP or through http to download your videos, Put.io is the same service as offered in seed box’s the only difference I see is the user interface of put.io is really beautiful, but remember you only get to enjoy this type of service if your home connection to the internet is fast enough to pull the downloads from your put.io account through http.
you can look up bit-torrent seed box you would find its entirely the same set-up.
anyway put.io provides a pretty UI which makes things interesting.
good luck on pirating LOL