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This is fascinating - can we hear more about the architecture and policies?

We completely protect the anonymity of our users. We do not condone the downloading of illegal content. On the back-end, we run a separate sandboxed instance of transmission-daemon for each download request. Interestingly, although the backend is written in Python, more than half of the code is bash.

You claim to protect the user's anonymity, but your payment provider's only login mechanism is via Facebook. That doesn't feel right.

The payment provider, Minno, is our primary project--we put together TorrentTraveler mostly as a proof of concept for it. We built Minno with an emphasis on user experience and privacy.

Minno only receives information about the size of the download (1GB, 2GB, etc) so that it can charge accordingly. TorrentTraveler deletes all of of its records for each download after 24 hours.

If you have any other questions/comments about Minno, feel free to ping me at calvin [at] minno.co

Do you temporarily cache downloaded data to save bandwidth? And do you continue to seed the torrent after it's downloaded?

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