Making 1GB downloads easier to swallow

[insi]

Pando Networks is going to try to make it easier for friends to send video to one other.

The start-up last week kicked off a public beta of its service, a peer-to-peer network that lets participants swap large files with one other through e-mail--without choking their computers. The files can be up to 1GB in size, can be sent to multiple participants at once, and can consist of music, video, pictures or other files.

Several hardware and software companies are currently working on ways to make video and photo swapping easier. Who will win the competition remains difficult to predict, but Pando at least can brag of a good number of early beta testers.

So far, about 650,000 people have downloaded the client and around one-third of them use it roughly twice or more a month, Pando CEO Robert Levitan said.

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[tylerdurden]

Yes its free. I'm using it for some time now.

You choose the files you want to upload, inserting your friends emails,
so it sends them a email with a .pando attachment (just like .torrent)
for them to download the files you've already uploaded in pando's servers.

It's working very well, the only thing i'm worried is the email thingy.
Knowing that this email upped that file, those emails downloaded that
files etc

 

[now9]

http://www.pando.com/beta/

 

[LinuxPoser]

ive been using it for a few monthes now, used it to transfer nacho libre and the da vinci code to a friend who is sick in the hospital getting bone marrow transplants

 

[Pickle]

ive been using it for a few monthes now, used it to transfer nacho libre and the da vinci code to a friend who is sick in the hospital getting bone marrow transplants

i hope he would be ok.

pando wants me to login or create an acoount to use it.i dont trust them and i dont use it.Why should i create an account,why do they want to see my mail traffic also uploads and downloads.:eek13:

 

[bratao]

I don´t like it, it too centralized to me !
But good speed i got !

 

[pupudada]

i hope he would be ok.

pando wants me to login or create an acoount to use it.i dont trust them and i dont use it.Why should i create an account,why do they want to see my mail traffic also uploads and downloads.:eek13:

No tensions brother, just keep a stock of dummy email accounts and you are safe. I always sign up to any new provider with a dummy (extra and disposable) email account and on being sure that it is a genuine stuff, change the email id in my preferences. I remember very well that when I first tried signing up to `Usenext', the glossy text in the 1st page was too luring. When I completed the 1st page of the form (username, password, email id), it took me to another page where it askd me for my credit card details.. I ditched the whole thing right there.. let them sell and spam my dummy email account.

As far as these services asking for email accounts is concerned, even `yousendit' had started a service some time back, where you could upload a file and send the details to various email ids in one shot.. that service required you to sign up with them.. quite some services are genuine, and some are fake.. dummy email accounts come useful in this regard.

 

[RyuKakashi]

oh this is wonderful! now that yousendit decided to suck, this is perfect.

 

[donjuandan]

oh god this is facking amazing news... i always hafta send a lot of files and shit

 

[DigitalDJ]

Are there any limitations?

 

[Morpitus]

People should use more torrents!!!
If everyone does then they can't arrest everyone

 

[Aternus]

They can still arrest you if they find it on your hard drive... oh well FTP always was a great thing... private, secure, and dont require you to give your credit card lol