ImageShack Now Offering Server Side Torrent Downloading
Posted in Cool by Dan at 1:59 pm
This post was published 1 year 11 months 14 days ago which may make its actuality or expire date not be valid anymore. This site is not responsible for any misunderstanding.Not a fan of downloading torrents on your computer? How about let ImageShack do it for you!
ImageShack has taken the wraps off its new, and free, BitTorrent downloading service.
What you have to do with ImageShacks new service is download the .torrent file on your computer and upload it to ImageShack, then ImageShack downloads the file and gives you a link to the full file.
Currently ImageShack’s servers are overwhelmed with new signups they have temporally suspended new signups – but if you are an existing ImageShack member you can enjoy this really cool web app.
thanks a lot for the info BUT
this sound like it might be an easy way for the law to catch ya, no?
@Doc
I was thinking the same thing… the legal loop holes this kind of idea entails is scary, and if you think ImageShack is going to try and defend you in court, or even help… pfft… might as well just write a letter to the MPAA yourself asking if they could sue you when they get a chance in their already busy schedule.
Sounds like this would take twice as long to download anything. Since you wait for ImageShack to download the torrent then you download the finished torrent from their server?
@Andrew
Think about in context of access availability though… example you’re at the air port, and you have a 4 hour flight… and a 5 hour lay over at your next hop… you don’t have time to download the entire torrent because it’s got a bad seed ratio and it’s going to take 2.5 hours to finish, but you board your plane in 30 minutes… enter stage left ImageShack. Now you set their server to download it for you… get off your flight hop on wifi and boom, that new album you wanted is waiting and now you just have to wait the 20-30 minutes it takes to fetch off their server as opposed to firing up your laptop and waiting another 2 hours for your download to finish.
I’m sure their are other examples where this could be equally as useful… I just don’t see how they plan on protecting or getting around the legal repercussions of such a service.
I don’t really know why Image Shack would be doing this, I thought they were an image hosting company, I guess they want to move in another direction.
The thing is they more than likely won’t protect you.
it will be a simple way to get what i want