Team ipernity Published on September 9, 2008
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Share your personal videos and other big files, using BitTorrent and the new ipernity tracker ;-)

Tuesday September 9, 2008 at 12:34PM

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 ;-)

45 Comments / add your comment?

Doomshammer says:
Nice feature. Good work!
Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink )
fractalium★i love fractals http://photo.ehrenheim.compro replies:
A LITTLE ADVISE FOR NON-IT-FREAKS.
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 !
Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink )
assbachpro replies:
not restricted to PCs . every OS with a torrent client works ... ;) i am using azureus on a Mac.
Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink )
fractalium★i love fractals http://photo.ehrenheim.compro replies:
I didn't doubt that. Did you get my point ?
Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink )
Ger & Mat replies:
thats real nit-picking assbach!
Geesus...
Mathias, yes you are correct!
Mat
Posted 13 months ago. ( permalink )
Hannes Trapppro says:
cool stuff
Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink )
P'tit Jopro says:
cool feature
Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink )
Anthony le Bourlierpro says:
Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink )
Xav says:
Well done guys..
Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink / translate )
Chat Loupe says:
Cool :)

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 ?
Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink )
Team ipernitypro replies:
Full text tag search is case insensitive but indeed tag browsing is case sensitive. We know that problem but it's not simple to solve. This is one of the various improvements we plan to do within the next weeks.
Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink )
Team ipernity edited this comment 14 months ago.
Chat Loupe replies:
Well, thanks for your answer. I wish you good luck to solve this problem :-)
Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink )
Dominik [ corcordis.de ]pro says:
I'm not sure if I really like it ... how do you make sure that this Torrent tracking on ipernity is not used for sharing illegal or copyrighted content?
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 ...
Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink )
Dominik [ corcordis.de ] edited this comment 14 months ago.
Team ipernitypro replies:
Our BitTorrent tracker is private and reserved to ipernity members only. Since there are dozens of famous BitTorrent sites indexing illegal contents and proposing public trackers, there is no reason ipernity becomes a new place for illegal sharing.

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.
Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink )
Dominik [ corcordis.de ]pro replies:
Thank you for that fast answer :-)
Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink )
Chat Loupe replies:
It's so nice to hear that ! Usually, P2P is so demonized...
Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink )
assbachpro replies:
i agree
Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink / translate )
Danypro says:
cool , du beau travail
Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink / translate )
forteller says:
Typo in the message:

"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..."
Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink )
Team ipernitypro replies:
Ooops, thank you! English is not our mother tongue so please continue to notify us typos...
Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink )
Roberto Ballerini - travelingpro says:
Great! I hope this doesn't waste too much server bandwidth...

--
Seen on Ipernity home page (?)
Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink )
Team ipernitypro replies:
Absolutely not! This is the main advantage of P2P protocol: no centralization. It means we only host small files (.torrent) describing related sources and places where they can be downloaded (partly or entirely). Sources files stay on seeders'PC and a direct link is made between seeders and leechers when downloading.
Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink )
Roberto Ballerini - travelingpro replies:
Ops! I misunderstood your post: I thought that Ipernity site wasn't only the host for the .torrent files (as any standard BitTorrent server), but acted also as a BitTorrent client to phisically host a repository of the files. Thanks for the explanation.

--
Seen in my account recent activity (?)
Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink )
Alex Boros replies:
Yeah, that's what I understood too at first...
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.
Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink )
Christel Ehretsmannpro says:
I'll have to experiment this : sounds nice but not so easy : thank you
Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink )
*Reinhard*pro says:
I hope one day someone can explain it in German, so I can understand everything!
Thanks a lot for your short coffee-break! ;-)
Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink )
Team ipernitypro replies:
Les is preparing a FAQ about BitTorrent, available in all ipernity languages including German. Hope it could help.
Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink )
Ger & Mat replies:
'Hope it will help.'
Posted 13 months ago. ( permalink )
Pope Guido Alexander Waldenmeier Spe Salvi Facti Sumus says:
to late
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
Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink )
Doomshammer replies:
Bosh! That's absolute nonsense. Using Bittorrent not automatically means you using it for illegal file sharing. And I haven't seen a law yet, saying "you are not allowed to install and/or use a bittorrent client"
Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink )
Pope Guido Alexander Waldenmeier Spe Salvi Facti Sumus replies:
you as a professionell know what you do

but think about peoples they not that "freak"
or if you have kids in the house

boy oh boy
Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink )
echox replies:
Ah come on...

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...
Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink )
Hermes says:
bonne nouvelle, vivement l'aide car pour le moment je ne suis pas capable d'envoyer par bit torrent malgré que j'ai un logiciel
Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink / translate )
Ger & Mat replies:
The english translation doesn't make any sense at all!!! Could someone translate this for us please? Thank you. Or is the above text incomplete?
Posted 13 months ago. ( permalink )
LaPingvinopro replies:
"Good news. Thanks for the help because for the moment I'm not capable of sending things with BitTorrent, although I have software for it."
Posted 13 months ago. ( permalink )
forteller says:
Hey. I told TorrentFreak about this, and now they have an article up. It's also being Digged quite well.
Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink )
Team ipernitypro replies:
Absolutely! Thank you forteller ;-))
Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink )
assbachpro says:
nice for geeks like me, i will test it as soon as possible and hopefully make a quick screencast showing what it's good for. yes it is innovative ! a different but cool way. just too "difficult" for some i think... :)
Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink )
Team ipernitypro replies:
We agree. BitTorrent protocol is not the most user-friendly. Later, we could imagine our iperUpload software becomes a BitTorrent client too. Adding a bulky content through iperUpload will automatically produce a .torrent file including the ipernity tracker, will import that .torrent in ipernity (rather than the source file) and will automatically start seeding the source file. One project more in our full-busy todo list ;-)))
Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink )
Maya Eidolonpro says:
How big can the file be?
Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink )
Team ipernitypro replies:
No limitation ;-) from 1 KB to xxxxx GB ;-)
Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink )
Marcos A.T. Silva says:
Can I use this new feature to send files larger than the actual 90 Mb upload limit?

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.
Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink )
LaPingvinopro replies:
With torrents you can send packages as a whole directly to your friends, whenever they want to download it. The contents of the torrent though WON'T appear in ipernity itself (only as a list at the torrent's page). You have to be online and seeding at first for others to be able to download your torrent. If there are more people who have downloaded it, they already help seeding and your file will be more accessible. Take a look at my docs, I've got two torrents for download, you could play a bit with them to see how it works client-side.
Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink )
Marcos A.T. Silva says:
Hi,

Thank you LaPingvino,

I will take a look. :)

Have a nice day.


Marcos
Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink )
Adrienpro says:
Haha can't wait for the next steps laught
Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink )

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