I'm not sure if they gain much traction without some sort of "free" account level (say 50M or less).

Not even a video demo or trial account.

I use YouTube on my iphone to queue up and listen to songs I want to hear. TO find songs I want to hear while driving I speak into Google, "Artist, Song, Youtube," to bring up the result, click & listen.

You can find some decent quality sounding versions of songs you want to hear; albeit some are crappy quality too. You can later access those songs in your YouTube iPhone app history.

This put.io sounds cool, but for me I dont download mp3s anymore and when I had a hard drive full of them I did upload them once to streamload.com but that took forever.

Good luck!

Putting the number of 'slots' available on the signup page is interesting. I wonder what the rationale for this is ... and it lets you infer what rate of signups they are getting (assuming it isn't just a marketing gimmick).

The fact that premium is just twice the pro limits but costs slightly more than 2x premium stands out as a little odd. Why not offer incremental storage capacity in the same way as bandwidth?

I wonder what the legal implications of this are. Here in the NL, downloading movies/music is legal, but uploading can cause you trouble. If put.io seeds a movie torrent for you, can you get into trouble?

from their faq

Your files are your business. We do not log your location, isp or ip address.

http://help.put.io/faqs/security-privacy/is-putio-reliable-s...

That's not really an answer (and, btw, not really honest -- location, isp and ip don't matter if they have your email address). Just because something can't be tracked doesn't mean it's legal.

Actually, it's hard to be caught when nothing is public.

Their "speedtest.bin" file downloads at 175 KB/s for me on my 2 MB/s connection, so no deal. Granted I'm in Australia, but using Rapidshare or Usenet directly I can max out my connection.

From Europe/Estonia it was roughly 5--6MiB/s. They definitely have the width, it's just the distance that matters in this case.

This is pretty awesome.

I slapped together a private solution on slicehost that pretty much does the same thing, but this is much cheaper.

It'll be good until it gets shutdown.

PS. I wish it did Usenet though.

A word of warning: their servers are in Europe, so if you happen to be far from the Netherlands, it might be slow.