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Dear friends,
As you know, we are still working on releasing the ipernity API. Almost 80% is done but it's time consuming and while working on this project, we cannot progress on other improvements and new features (remember we are only 2 programmers). So we decided to make a short coffee-break last week to complete one of our "secret" projects ;)... BitTorrent!
As from now, ipernity proposes a solution to share voluminous contents such as full-lenght personal videos or entire folders of thousands photos, using BitTorrent peer-to-peer protocol and the new ipernity tracker.
For those who don't know anything about BitTorrent and how to use it, there are dozens of tutorials on the net. Of course, we won't let you down: Lea is writing a new FAQ entry and will put it online in a couple of days.
How does it work?
-- from ipernity, go to the upload page: you'll find a new "BitTorrent" section and your personal ipernity tracker URL. Keep this address in mind.
-- from your computer, open your BitTorrent client and make a .torrent of the file(s) you want to share, specifying your personal ipernity tracker. Then start seeding this torrent to make it active.
-- from ipernity, go back to the upload page, BitTorrent section, and import your .torrent file in your ipernity space
-- that's all!
Your .torrent file is considered as a doc in ipernity. You'll find it in "your docs" page, "others" section. Like all the other docs, it can be added to albums, posted in groups, faved, commented, tagged... and of course you can decide who can access your .torrent (friends, family or every members).
On the .torrent doc page, you'll find specific information: torrent status, seeds/leechers, name and size of source file(s)...
Authorized members who want to leech your content must download the related .torrent file and open it with a BitTorrent client. Of course you must keep your .torrent file active until at least one leecher completed the download.
We hope that solution will give you more ways to share personal videos and 100MB+ contents.
Innovative isn't it?
The ipernity team.
PS: if you are asking "Next steps?", here is the official answer for the next weeks: API, albums grouping and ordering, password access.... and more ;-)
Doomshammer says:
fractalium★i love fractals http://photo.ehrenheim.compro replies:
This solution works only if you have your PC running. When you shot down your computer nobody can load your film.
Only after a while if many load it (while your PC is running) the people that watched your film for example will redistribute it (if they don't turn off their PC etc.)
IPERNITY does NOT save your file but only a reference.
Hey IT-FREAKS, please correct me if I am wrong !
assbachpro replies:
fractalium★i love fractals http://photo.ehrenheim.compro replies:
Ger & Mat replies:
Geesus...
Mathias, yes you are correct!
Mat
Hannes Trapppro says:
P'tit Jopro says:
Anthony le Bourlierpro says:
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Seen in anthony.lebourlier home page (?)
Xav says:
Chat Loupe says:
Just an idea : What about an RSS reader integrated in ipernity ? It could be useful to follow our groups et our networks.
And a feature request (pendant que j'y suis ^_^) : IMHO, search by tag should not be sensitive to uppercase and to accents. For example, the two following searches should give the same result :
www.ipernity.com/explore/KEYWORD/Grenoble
www.ipernity.com/explore/KEYWORD/grenoble
Don't you think ?
Team ipernitypro replies:
Team ipernity edited this comment 15 months ago.
Chat Loupe replies:
Dominik [ corcordis.de ]pro says:
If you followed the last months in the IT news and read about what happened to many "only" Torrent tracker websites world wide I'm a little afraid to lose this wonderful community here ...
Dominik [ corcordis.de ] edited this comment 15 months ago.
Team ipernitypro replies:
IMHO, It's not because P2P protocols are mainly used to share illegal contents, that we must not consider them as a solution to share voluminous "legal" contents such as full-lenght personal videos...
Of course we'll monitor that new way of sharing and will tune our system to prevent illegal uses.
Dominik [ corcordis.de ]pro replies:
Chat Loupe replies:
assbachpro replies:
Danypro says:
forteller says:
"There is no member seeding this torrent right now. You may start downloading but you'll have to wait at least a seeder to complete your download."
It should be:
"...you'll have to wait for at least one seeder..."
Team ipernitypro replies:
Roberto Ballerini - travelingpro says:
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Seen on Ipernity home page (?)
Team ipernitypro replies:
Roberto Ballerini - travelingpro replies:
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Seen in my account recent activity (?)
Alex Boros replies:
Anyway, this feature is not really helping me at this moment, since one needs to sign up in order to download a torrent and almost no one in my family has (or is willing to sign up for) an account here.
Christel Ehretsmannpro says:
*Reinhard*pro says:
Thanks a lot for your short coffee-break! ;-)
Team ipernitypro replies:
Ger & Mat replies:
Pope Guido Alexander Waldenmeier Spe Salvi Facti Sumus says:
anyone there life in germany are crazy if put a torrent client on the computer
after to new law from goverment about file sharing
start on 09 01 2008
Doomshammer replies:
Pope Guido Alexander Waldenmeier Spe Salvi Facti Sumus replies:
but think about peoples they not that "freak"
or if you have kids in the house
boy oh boy
echox replies:
If your kids using your computer you should teach them how to use it right.
A installed torrent client isn't really a problem. Would be easier for the kids to use Google to download illegal content / pr0n / etc.
And for the people which are not "that freak" the client shouldn't also be a problem if they keep a eye on the content they consume and share...
Hermes says:
Ger & Mat replies:
LaPingvinopro replies:
forteller says:
Team ipernitypro replies:
assbachpro says:
Team ipernitypro replies:
Maya Eidolonpro says:
Team ipernitypro replies:
Marcos A.T. Silva says:
Even to send a "package" with more than 90 Mb's of photos and/or videos?
If so, how would be the management of the documents uploaded through .torrent, regarding its insertion on albums, etc? Can this be automatically done, by the same way when I upload through jUploadr?
Regards.
LaPingvinopro replies:
Marcos A.T. Silva says:
Thank you LaPingvino,
I will take a look. :)
Have a nice day.
Marcos
Adrienpro says: