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Coinado – Cloud torrenting for command line fans

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I've spent the last few months talking to artists, and I've managed to convince a B of people to release stuff into the creative commons.

see: http://mercbay.com/#search/gendale

The films are now on BitTorrent, and all include both license information and BitCoin addresses where you can pay the artist.

I'd like to use a service like this to provide streaming of these files. But I don't want to use a service that has a business model that relies on transferring copyrighted files.

I wouldn't mind self hosting this, because the data transfer should be relatively low, and all the content would be legal. Does anybody have any input in this regard?

Self host + CloudFlare in front of it? They don't limit your bandwidth and will cache what you have. Plus that way you don't have to explain to your potential users how to torrent. They likely already know how to use a browser.

"Strict no log policy" That's a great thing for many of us.

But the price is quite high with 90$ (currently) per Terabyte.

If the legal situation in your country allows you to download things like Movies, Computer Games and Software without legal consequences and your downloads are also available on a hosting site, you would be cheaper of this way.

If you either depend on privacy or using torrents, this might be a great service for you.

> "Strict no log policy"

That's meaningless. You can say it but you can't prove it.

> That's a great thing for many of us.

If you need to rely on that to keep you out of trouble then don't.

Usually I like to argue alot, but I have to agree with you.

http://www.alotisnotaword.com/images/ALOT6.png

http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.se/2010/04/alot-is-better-...

Thank you for sharing the source, I will be taking a lot more care from now on.

Yeah, too expensive. You can get competing services for about $10-15 per TB IIRC, they just have a set of Java utilities instead of the fancy Web 3.0 frontend.

The only new thing is command line. There are plenty of sites that offer this; see filestream.me, btcloud.io, zbigz.com, boxopus.com

Hosted in Latvia. This won't last long.

Already down for me in the UK.

edit: 20 mins later and it's back

Seems a bit like put.io. Companies that make money purely by supporting copyright fraud historically have faced a lot of problems, though.

Put.io has a big advantage in that it streams the files to you via the browser. You don't need to download the whole file locally in order to watch it. If needed it even converts to mp4 and adds subtitles.

http://popcorninyourbrowser.net/ uses coinado.io to stream videos in your browser.

Very nice, they even make the torrents healthier by seeding:

"We ensure that every torrent downloaded through Coinado is seeded to a ratio of 2 or up to 36 hours, whichever happens first."

36 hours doesn't seem long enough to me, according to my experience.

It would be nice if you could pay x bitcoins and have it seed to y ratio or mb.

interesting idea, but its currently slow... the demo url they give, you would expect to be fast... i got the first 1024k and its been waiting since... ETA started at 39 min, its now at over 12h... would definatly be interesting if it worked as expected, and maybe a little cheaper as @radle mentions, but interesting none the less...

Unfortunately, hosting this on a single domain will give ISPs and sys admins a very easy target to block.

Browser version of Popcorn Time use it.

Anyone have any issues with this on OS X? I get a `--content-disposition` not valid error

Is the code on github?

Why must everything be a cloud service?

Also, I doubt this could be used with private trackers (if one values their account, anyway)

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