Get Direct Links for torrents through Imageshack.us

Posted by aravind jose in Sunday, March 30th 2008

Topics: Internet, Reviews & Tips, Tutorials
Tags: imageshack torrent, Review, Tutorial

This needs attention. Imageshack.us, the leader in image hosting, today added a great new feature to their ‘already-nice’ feature-set: “Online Torrenting”.

What Is It?

It’s a cutting-edge technology by which you can download the contents of a torrent file to imageshack.us’s clustered servers and download it to your computer through direct links.

That means, you literally need no torrent clients or p2p clients running in the background, hogging your resources. Just add the torrent file at imageshack and let them do the torrenting for you. And, once it’s finished you can download the files as direct links. Sounds great, isn’t it !!!

Specs

You get 15GB Storage Space & 15GB Bandwidth

How To?

The service is still in the early BETA and requires you to register for an account at imageshack.us
After Registering, LogIn and Go to Imageshack Torrents’ Home.
You can either upload a .torrent file from your computer or else provide the URL to the .torrent file. Click GO
That’s it. Now, Imageshack starts torrenting for you and you may shut the computer and have a good night’s sleep.
Nothing is downloaded to your computer, NOW.
When you check back, it might be finished or else you can see the status of the given torrent download.
In the torrents’ homepage, you get to control torrenting, like, Start, Stop, Download, Delete etc. (screenshot below)
Clicking on “Download” will take you to a file listing page. (screenshot below)
If you are downloading a torrent with many sub-files, you can download the individual files in the order of finishing. That means, if your torrent contains 50 files and only 25 of them are finished at the time you check, you can download those 25 files individually while the torrenting proceeds in the background.

You might’ve used BitLet, which allow you to download the torrent files to your computer without a torrent client. But, Imageshack has gone one more step ahead, and downloads it to their servers to provide you with DIRECT LINKS.

Screenshots

Showing Status of torrents

(This one facilitates HTTP downloading of Torrents!!)
What do you think about this cool, new service?

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34 Comments

At 2008.04.01 06:41, Alex Levin said:

Your article mentions .com, but that is not correct, it should be .us.

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- At 2008.04.01 07:32, aravind jose said:
  
  Sorry Alex for that mistake from my part.
  I’ve duly changed all .com to .us.
  My Apologies.
  
  A great thanks for stopping by my blog and commenting on it.
  Thanks.
  
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At 2008.04.04 03:25, Sebastian said:

When I clicked on the link to Imageshack Torrent’s Home, it said “Unable to identify you. Please login first,” when I was CLEARLY signed in already (the top right of the page told me so).

I couldn’t even find Imageshack Torrent’s Home without the link you provided and now I’m wondering whether it exists anymore…. help!

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At 2008.04.04 06:56, aravind jose said:

@ Sebastian
That could be a temporary problem. Try again as it is working fine for me. just give it another try.

Yups. That’s true. ImageShack doesn’t have any links to this service in their homepage. That means, they have not releases it completely/officially. While i was going through their site, i noticed a simple line: “Download Torrents Now”. I clicked on that and found this.

I found it interesting, so i blogged. Now, it seems that many are interested. (Thanks to WP-Stats!!!)

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At 2008.04.04 11:28, Aravind said:

Woo it works! Thanks for the share!

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At 2008.04.04 11:30, Sathya said:

^^ Sorry about putting your name

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- At 2008.04.04 15:04, aravind jose said:
  
  It’s okay.
  Thanks for the reply.
  
  Come back for more such inside scoops..
  
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At 2008.04.04 13:22, Zulu said:

Wow! it really works! Beautiful! Thank you very much for the share!

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- At 2008.04.04 15:05, aravind jose said:
  
  It’s great to hear that my post helped you great ppl.
  See You Again.
  
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At 2008.04.04 15:31, stiltwalker said:

yea early signs show it to be fine cheers

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- At 2008.04.04 15:39, aravind jose said:
  
  These are some interesting comments i got from Xarious (http://xarious.stumbleupon.com/) and Gorbichov (http://gorbichov.stumbleupon.com/) >>
  
  “”I’m willing to bet some corporation like Microsoft or Adobe put them up to this so they can track software pirates. That is, if this isn’t some kind of strange prank.”"
  
  “”This sounds great, except there is now a middle man spying on what you’re downloading. They can release this information to whomever, whenever they please.”"
  
  What do you think?
  
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At 2008.04.04 21:12, Sathya said:

I’d agree. I dont think the MPAA and RIAA would be too happy and sit idle.
PS: Remove the screenie you d/l *ahem* music and put a screenie of you d/ling a Linux distro, just to be on the safe side.

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- At 2008.04.04 21:33, aravind jose said:
  
  Yups. Will change ‘em.
  Thatz true.
  
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At 2008.04.05 07:59, aravind jose said:

“Oracle GreenDiamond” (http://oraclegd.com/) said:
But does it seed?

@ Oracle
I dont think it will do seeding. Thus, it’s against the concept of p2p/file sharing

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At 2008.04.05 08:39, TechEnclave said:

Download TORRENTS as DIRECT LINKS thorugh IMAGESHACK.US…

This one seems very interesting.

ImageShack has started a new feature by which you can download torrents contents from direct HTTP links.

This service has not yet been announced, but, i saw this on ……

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At 2008.04.05 18:33, Mayank said:

This is awesome…great news

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At 2008.04.07 00:13, ImageShack Torrent Scoop | The Fact Sheet | | aravindjose.com said:

would’ve read my first ever scoop which was on ImageShack launching a new Torrent Service. I blogged it on 30th March and till then a …

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At 2008.04.08 21:37, Daniel said:

I like the ‘classic’ torrent.
This - at this moment - seems only a file hosting.

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- At 2008.04.09 07:39, aravind jose said:
  
  Anyway, this offered us some entertainment.
  Many are of the opinion that, ImageShack will run into Copyright issues.
  
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At 2008.04.10 11:52, nauman said:

Can I get such an imageshack account with 15GB storage? Currently, imageshack has limited it down to 5GB for new signups. Somebody help me plz.

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- At 2008.04.10 12:01, aravind jose said:
  
  Oh.
  At the time of launch, they offered 15 GB storage.
  Sorry to know that they’ve limited it to 5GB for new signups.
  I’m sorry/ There is no way by which you could get a 15GB account unless you pay.
  
  They might’ve been forced to do that since the service got wide acceptance and users rushed in.
  
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At 2008.04.10 12:11, nauman said:

I would like to state that while searching extensively for imageshack torrent accounts with 15GB quota, I have learned that this service was reported on this blog first. This is for record correction purpose. Try Google cache for confirmation. –peace

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At 2008.04.14 04:06, Jaxx89 said:

now this is something awesome.
would be good if there were something like this for http an ftp downloads too(my F#$kin ISP blocks a lot of ports)

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At 2008.04.14 04:09, Jaxx89 said:

update
Disk Space 5.00GB
Bandwidth 10.00GB/mo

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- At 2008.04.14 07:19, aravind jose said:
  
  Thanks for the update
  
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At 2008.04.17 15:20, Sathya said:

When I signed up, I had 15GB Diskspace & BW. Even mine has been downgraded now. And now “rpemium” services are available

http://img329.imageshack.us/my.php?image=istorgo9.png

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- At 2008.04.17 20:07, aravind jose said:
  
  Yes. You are right.
  My account too is now downgraded.
  They could’ve not done this since i’ve blogged it.
  
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At 2008.05.09 11:21, genco said:

Thinks my university now will suffer because of me

by the way I have create a second account
but they didn’t give me any Disk Space and Bandwidth tried to create 3 other account using different email but still the same no disk no bandwidth

any suggestion

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- At 2008.05.13 15:01, aravind jose said:
  
  This might be because that all computers on your university shares the same IP and your university has a Static IP.
  
  ImageShack provides only one account per IP.
  Deleting and managing the cookies may solve the problem.
  
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At 2008.05.14 04:01, genco said:

think u i will register through using your-freedom
and c what will happen

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At 2008.05.14 04:08, genco said:

It will be helpful if some1
create an account and sent me the username and the pass to
my email gencoemenco@gmail.com

if u need a temp email
http://10minutemail.com

Thanks in advance

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At 2008.07.12 11:11, Balraj said:

Brother…
I ABSOLUTELY LOVE YOU!

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At 2008.07.12 17:05, Woof Wuf said:

This is piece of news made by day man!

Thanx alot for sharing the link. Grateful as hell to u

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At 2008.07.13 15:58, aravind jose said:

@Balraj & @Woof Wuf
You made me happier.
Great to hear that this helped you.

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