Download Torrents Instantly with Instant-Torrents
Written by Ernesto on September 05, 2008Instant-Torrents is a new service that allows people to download, find, and share torrents on a private network. Users can download torrents via the site, and direct downloads are available when others have downloaded the torrent before.
Lately we’ve seen quite a few new sites that let you download torrents to their servers. Not just the traditional seedbox providers, but also services such as those from Imageshack and Torrent-Relay. Instant-Torrents is another ‘torrent download’ service, but with some distinctive features that set it apart from the rest.
Like the other sites we mentioned, Instant-Torrents downloads the torrents to their servers. When the download is finished, users can download it to their computer. What’s different is that once a torrent is downloaded to Instant-Torrent, it will stay hosted on the server, and other users can find the files via the site’s search, and download them instantly.
Instant-Torrents is still low on content, but with enough users it will become unnecessary to add torrents by yourself, since most popular files will be hosted on the server anyway. The downside for the owners is of course that the MPAA, IFPI and RIAA will be keeping an eye on it as well.
Instant-Torrents shares all torrents till they have uploaded what they have downloaded, which makes it ’share friendly’. Users are allowed to have 5 torrents running at the same time, and there is no limit in size or numbers for completed torrents. “As long as there’s enough disk space, people can download as much as they want,” ‘Zero Endorphine’, one of the Instant-Torrents co-founders told us.
Instant-Torrents
The service also has an option to make a watch list, to downloads torrents based on specific keywords, as soon as they are available. In addition, the site has lists of the last added, most downloaded and most recommended torrents, and it allows users to recommend torrents to their friends.
Instant-Torrents is itself a free service, but in order to download you’ll have to get a VPN account at Ivacy. This is because the files can only be downloaded to your PC if you’re connected to the (private) Ivacy network. There is a free 1GB trial available, so potential users can play around with it for free. A paid account costs 0.50 Euro ($0.70) per GB, or 10 Euro ($14.20) a month for unlimited bandwidth.
‘Zero Endorphine’, one of the Instant-Torrents co-founders told us that they get a revenue share from Ivacy, to cover the expenses they incur, such as bandwidth and server costs. The site has only been up and running for a few weeks, and ‘Zero Endorphine’ ensured us that they will add more innovative features in the near future.
“We already added Usenet support, in a few days we will support Rapidshare downloads as well, and we’re also working on integrated BitTorrent tracker search,” ‘Zero Endorphine’ said. Instant-Torrents offers an interesting addition to the most basic BitTorrent download services. Although we prefer BitTorrent to be free, the private nature of the site, and the instant downloads might make it worthwhile for some.
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56 Responses
Sounds good
damn im liking this service
I see its hosted in Germany….and here I thought they were cracking down on file sharing there.
Great site for the admins (whoever they might be) to collect info’s such as IP’s, url’s, etc….
And yeah… hosted in Germany. Fail.
yep, sounds good. i’m wondering how long will it take for this service to dissapear due to high bandwidth costs.
Sounds pretty damn illegal
would sound pretty damm good if i could be sure of the intents behind it… i think the frontpage is a bit too direct about “illegalz” stuffs which can be seen as suspicious…
“The downside for the owners is of course that the MPAA, IFPI and RIAA will be keeping an eye on it as well.”
I think thats putting it mildly, those sons of bitches wont be keeping an eye on it… i’m betting they are themselves going to add a torrent of theirs so that the ‘copyrighted material’ will be copied onto the servers… then they can jump in and “save the day”.
That is if the above comments fears of it not being a setup to collect user data is wrong in the first place… if its true, the MAFIAA dont have to do sh!t but just sit back and submit their details to be sued later on…
The whole deal/service sounds a bit too good to be true…
Just my $0.02
Ryan
http://www.eZee.se
“downloads the torrents to their servers” - isn’t this shooting yourself with the silver bullet and driving the stake through your own heart? After all, the defense of all the torrent index and search engines is that they just provide a search function like Google and don’t have any of the actual files. If you have the actual files, you’ll be inviting a thermonuclear lawyer bombing that will wipe you off the planet.
currently trying to download 4 files
seems to fail for bigger files
also one torrent has 26k (yes 26000) seeders and the speed is… like none! ;(
6h:15m left
for a 175mb file… wow
I would avoid this!
I will be soon away, dont invest in such lamer… Germany is not secure any more! collecting IPs starts soon… even outside Germany they will help RIAA MPAA and other fucks!
If you pay them money… is this REALLY file sharing? They want your credit card number AND tie it to all your downloads. You will be billed by the MPAA/BMI/ASCAP one day.
SCAM! SCAM! SCAM!
yet another service that takes torrents away from everyone and only allows the few who pay to use.
as usual its all about what money they can make just like many other private sites!!
bittorrent is free and open to all not just the few …
its about time ppl stopped beleiveing the hype about private being more secure!! (oink!!)
well done for another bullshit service that is as far from bittorrent as you can get.
Yes do not even bother with this. Their method of downloading the torrent after it is completed, requires the user to either A:) set up a VPN on their system, or B:) Download and installed a VPN client called Ivacy. Ivacy is a paid VPN service. So you do the math. I’ll stick with the normal method of downloading torrents.
“I see its hosted in Germany….and here I thought they were cracking down on file sharing there.”
maybe there neighbours have a really good wifi spot, lol.
This sounds pretty good, just forgetting about the torrent system, a unlimited bandwidth VPN for 10 euros seems a really good offer from my perspective.
as awesome as this sounds.. surely they will be pwned by the dick head powers that be..
they have got to be crazy.
“I see its hosted in Germany….”
Just like rapidshare, netload and numberless smaller file hoster. But i don’t see them going down mhhhh
I smell a honeypot… LOL
not free 1gb bonus :/
nice ad douche
so is torrent freak basically an advertising service now? Seems to be alot of these ‘reviews’ that are merely advertisements for pay services.
Anyone making money from piracy is in the wrong, and is the sole reason the rest of us downloaders are being harassed like we’re terrorists.
@phishybongwaters
It’s not exactly advertising in the Bernays sense. It’s not like they’re implying that you somehow need the service to complete your life, or that the site will allow you to express your individuality better.
I think the test is if they get paid for it. If so, then PHAIL, if not, they’re being fairly charitable, I think.
I Dont Get It .
TPB has always said like … they dont host any copy righted material on their servers … only meta data..
This Things seems to be like …
1. bittorrent 2 server
2.server 2 u
so Copy righted Material Is Hosted in the server rite ?
And the whole thing is lil too good to be true ..
Correct me if im wrong.
@Pedant
well put. Doesn’t change my opinion of the fact that this torrent news site seems to post a lot of articles that i would classify as ‘paid reviews’ selling you a service.
you’d have to be mildly retarded to pay for that service in the first place, and secondly, not only does it offer NO protection, it’s mostly likely a honey pot.
Think about it, you pay this company to download illegal content, then log in and download it to your machine. That company, regardless of what they want to say in their disclaimer, is not only helping you pirate, it’s cashing in from it.
Beyond that, isps and sites are being legally compelled to hand over user data. A system like this would be the mpaa’s dream. not only do they get you for downloading it, they nail you for sharing it, because once it’s on the server, anyone can download it.
Anyone thinking about this service stop and think long and hard before you make a horrible mistake.
As long as torrent indexing sites, sites without a tracker, are being nailed, no one is safe, and this seems to just be asking for trouble.
Also, has anyone taken a look at their vpn clients code? Who’s to say it isn’t a morpheus style scam (google stealth p2p network) or even worse
this defeats the purpose of the bittorent protocol.
this site will go the way of stage6.com for the same reason
Sounds just like the private usenet services that many folks already pay for, only with a wider scope that includes torrents. I like any concept put forth which involves some levels of protection and privacy, especially encryption. Is it too good to be true? Only time will tell.
This article doesn’t sound like an ad to me. It’s a novel idea and worth reporting. I can see Instant-Torrents and other services like it being very useful, especially for folks in certain countries that have over-zealous copyright laws and punishments disproportionate to the actual crime. That is of course if it’s not a honey-pot. If it is then forget about it.
I agree with @27 about the article’s not being an ad. We need to learn and test BitTorrent services.
On the other hand, holy crap! This is not a BitTorrent download service like Imageshack, not a seedbox either. This is pure and simple “We will take your money and kill you! And the best thing is you’re gonna love it!” Thank god for this article because if i heard this site from somewhere else and didn’t get the information, i would sign up. Tracker, search engine, file hoster, stealing files from other websites(Rapidshare)… Operating a file hosting service is not illegal in US or Germany (Rapidshare,imageshack etc.) but this website needs to go to Pluton to be legal.
that vpn is bullshit. im sticking with imageshack.us or torrentrelay
I assume they’d respond to C&D takedown requests though I don’t suppose that’d pose a threat to subscribers as technically they wouldn’t be the ones hosting & distributing any infringing content. It’ll come down on the service which I gather would claim itself designed for legal purposes only, and whose job it isn’t to police the activities of its subscribers.
Authorities shouldn’t have cause to demand subscriber details as subscribers should be in the clear, and this is even assuming for a second that they could even identify individual user activities in the first place (unlikely i’d have thought without some serious government-grade snooping abilities).
If the service works well and people like it, Why not Pay a little?
It takes money to operate a site so people really do need to give something to help keep it alive. Bittorrent should be free but without help there wont be any sites to get the free. It really is a no brainer….
Even having Unlimited bandwidth plans is fishy. Everyone knows bandwidth ain’t cheap. Storage either. Even Rapidshare has limits.
i agree with @31, yes, why not pay for a web service. RS has thousands of paying members. i got a paying membership on even Flickr. this instant-stuff is fishy and illegal though.
crap service slow downloads better speed actually downloading the torrent yourself plus this is not free
Fuck that, who’s gonna seed when everyone’s using it ?
And they’re making money out of something that are free
@32 your clueless. simplecdn.com for one example. YOU, get charged a lot for bandwidth. For everyone else it’s DIRTY CHEAP.
Ew,
TorrentRelay for me… This needs you to signup for something to even get going.
TR is mostly free!
Love the idea, but i don’t love pay-for-VPN
Yeah it fed through some russian proxy service… when i go to what is my IP it shows that I am from russia…prolly a scam. … and when did torrent freak start making their reviews advertisements… I remember when this was a stand up site.. I will probably delete TF from my favorites after this little debacle. I know you need to get paid, but don’t lie to me!
Sounds pretty stupid to me! At least with true torrents you stand a chance of simply denying that you were involved, but if you blantently download a complete movie/album from this lot then it’s no different from someone turning up the old style warez websites and helping themselves to a complete, single copy of whatever they wanted! 100% pure proof you, and only you, downloaded illegal XYZ!
In the immortal words of Admiral
Ackbar: It’s A Trap!
Here we go again, yanks thinking the entire World is the US .. just because all ISP’s in the US are a bunch of MAFIAA-whores it doesn’t mean it’s like that in the Free World . Germany has something called “privacy laws”,”rule of Law” and “probable cause”, you guys in the US should try it !
ahhh … thanks for this good article… will give this torrent a try!
I think their biggest mistake is to make the ‘available torrent list’ visible and searchable.
This way they are nothing more than a warez site.
Users should add a torrent in private and see in private whether it is already available. That way at least it is a user initiated caching service.
Not that it matters much legal wise, probably.
i do a acount in ivacy, and instan-torrents working fine, great service and good idea.
Almost got me interested until the VPN part.. why don’t they just SSL enable their website if they are so concerned about privacy.. is the VPN part really even necessary then?
Instead of forcing users to use a capped vpn service which will ultimately force you to pay up..
What the heck is a “Morpheus type Scam” I used Morpheus for years with no problems.
Jiff
http://www.anonymize.us.tc
Germany, impeding on personal freedoms?
And you are shocked about this?
You sir… your papers! YOUR PAPERS!
You need to pay for a VPN to use the service. I’ll pass.
Why not just use torrent2exe.com..?!
Wow thats a great idea! Hope it will stay up for a while.
LOL
this reeks of scam
honeypot biatches!
jkhoi
If it looks too good to be true, it probably is.
What comments 52 and 53 said.
It's a free service as a part of an addon package to Ivacy.com VPN. Included in the package are premium megaupload, instant-torrents (including infinte rapidshare downloads), VPN and usenet. Ivacy is the best VPN provider out there with no logs a servers in Russia, UK and USA.
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