Put.io is an innovative new cloud storage service
by Arda Kutsal
on October 15, 2009

[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.

You can follow them via Twitter.

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  • Frank

    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.

  • Alvin

    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?

  • Yogesh

    Won’t it be illegal if it copies movies from bittorrents.

  • Neil Bryant

    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…..

  • http://www.uguraydogdu.com Uğur Aydoğdu (jnbn)

    It’s now in private beta and yes we’ll be able to download files directly to our computers ;)

  • http://www.ozancaglargil.com Ozan

    You can also download/stream iphone compatible mp4 versions.. brilliant idea!.

  • Alvin

    Do you have a ball park of what the prices of the services will be like?

  • Pete Austin

    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.

  • http://ozumdencoksevmektir.blogspot.com Aycan

    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.

  • elvirs

    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.

  • http://wir-sprechen-online.com/2009/10/15/put-io/ Put.io « Wir sprechen Online.

    [...] in private beta, Put.io will offer a paid storage service for fetching + streaming media files; http://j.mp/1IgzJi [...]

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Lois_Arnando/1015190671 <fb:name linked="false" useyou="false" uid="1015190671">Lois Arnando</fb:name>

    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.

  • kayoone

    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.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Nral_Tataolu/715357705 <fb:name linked="false" useyou="false" uid="715357705">Nüral Tataoğlu</fb:name>

    I thing there have to be an option for android compatible versions.)

  • Tiago

    Is this legal? I don’t think so…

  • Paul

    Shame about the name……it sounds very similar to a spanish word starting with put…..

  • mike adams

    drop.io has an ‘upload via url’ function that works the same way… funny that they are using the .io domain name also

  • person3

    “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

  • http://ozumdencoksevmektir.blogspot.com Aycan

    It cuts down the first downloading process. If your bandwith is enough for streaming, you’ll be enjoying your video in no time,..

  • http://www.binfire.com/ david robins

    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!

  • williegarwin

    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

  • kayoone

    are you crazy ? 2mbit is 250kb/s which is nowhere near HDTV quality. 1080p streaming over my lan is more like 6mbps

  • williegarvin

    i meant those divx’s with the HDTV in the filename. you know 350mb ones.

  • http://antyweb.pl/put-io-sciagnie-za-nas-film-i-pozwoli-obejrzec-go-online/ AntyWeb | » Put.io – ściągnie za nas film i pozwoli obejrzeć go online!

    [...] W Turcji powstaje startup, który ma szanse stać się małą rewolucją jeśli chodzi o online storage. Serwis ten będzie potrafił ściągnąć automatycznie wskazane przez nas treści z miejsc takich jak Rapidshare czy z P2P (Bittorrent) i umieścić je w naszej 50 GB przestrzeni jaką będziemy mogli w Put.io wykupić. To jeszcze nie wszystko oprócz pobierania za nas filmów i muzyki (bo umówmy się, że to głównie ściąga się z Torrentów i Rapidshare) Put.io pozwoli nam je również obejrzeć / odsłuchać bez potrzeby ściągania ich na dysk naszego komputera. [...]

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  • Ian T

    Hmm – interesting choice of name. Connections to prostitution in several european languages….given the service, maybe it’s deliberate ;-)

  • http://phunky.co.uk Phunky

    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.

  • C.b.

    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.

  • http://www.linklockers.co.uk David Kitchenham

    I think this is legal. Storage and lockers like this helps me daily.

  • jacob derwahl

    Well, imageshack (a US company) downloads torrents without apparent legal problems. This certainly looks like a better service. We’ll see.

  • http://tria.webcompany.com.ua/ Max Anter

    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.

  • http://www.emrahsaglik.com Emrah Saglik

    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.

  • http://www.webrazzi.com/2009/10/23/put-ionun-yeni-ekran-goruntuleri-ve-ozel-beta-davetiyeleri/ Put.io’nun Yeni Ekran Görüntüleri ve Özel Beta Davetiyeleri | Webrazzi

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  • Anonymous

    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.

  • gio
  • http://www.tetrop.com Mert

    I am wondering why the author or other supervisor of put.io project are ignoring the questions about law part of it.

  • http://www.mysoogal.com mysoogal

    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

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  • StRiKeR

    It’s a great service. It starts with an invitation but unfortunately I don’t have an invitation right now. It’s free now but it will be payable service. It let’s you to download rapidshare links in seconds, connects the parts in second and streams them. You can download it with 1 simple link. I can pay for put.io too. It’s really great and I am very proud that its original is from Turkey :)

  • redzking

    http://top-redzking.com is best site for getting an invite for private trackers !

  • Rabbit80

    Actually, its brilliant for me since my ISP throttles everything except http!

  • dragonAMD

    well it has already been done, but now it seam like there making with more bells lol I`v been using furk.net for 6months now its just a bitTorrent proxy server, works good love the fact i can get my torrent at my maximum speed threw https a lot more scecure and much faster :P
    looking forward to trying this service, just hope they fix issue with private trackers, being the torrent you upload to this type a service then gets publish on the web.. not good if you need to keep good share ratio lol..

  • Martin
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  • http://www.retardia.ru serg

    put.io has been just released in full (paid) version, you don’t need the invites anymore :-)

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