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TIOTI: The Social TV-Torrent Network Goes Live Today

TIOTI is an acronym for “Tape It Off The Internet” and is best described as a TV torrent site with a social network surrounding it. TIOTI has finally moved out of the private beta stage and launches its service to the public today.

TIOTI

TIOTI is aiming to be the next generation TV-torrent site. It does so by combining great design, .torrent tracking, RSS feeds for your favorite shows, recommendations, tagging, a little AJAX, and much more Web2.0 goodness.

The features don’t stop there – the episode pages on TIOTI include not only .torrent links, but also links to downloads from the iTunes store and DVDs from the Amazon store.

TIOTI also aggregrates links to streaming TV shows and allows its users to submit links wiki-style, referencing both full episodes and also smaller YouTube-type ‘video clips’.

Here at TorrentFreak we’ve been watching TIOTI closely for almost two years now, and it’s great to see they’re finally opening to the public.

In 2006, TIOTI co-founder Paul Pod told TorrentFreak that they want to improve the user experience compared to the traditional TV-torrent sites: “We’re aiming to create that Napster moment for TV downloads. Web2.0 is neither here nor there – what matters is good architecture and fantastic design. For non-geeks, it’s all about the user experience – if it sucks they don’t come back.”

Download your favorite TV-shows with TIOTI

TIOTI: The Social TV-Torrent Network Goes Live Today

TIOTI is live at this point, but not running very smoothly. According to their blog they have experienced a couple of teething troubles transitioning the servers to ‘live’ status, but this should be fixed soon.

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  • Tottiefied

    Sounds interesting.

  • Whawhing

    well lets have a try…

  • Simon

    Check out Testcard TV (http://www.testcard.tv/) quick, easy, fast way to watch a huge range of content (movies, tv, cartoons, music videos etc.)
    We’re demoing tonight at mashup* Demo (www.mashupdemo.com) – all welcome.
    Thanks
    SImon

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  • bnoise

    Mpf tioti.com doesn’t work anymore with my account, it says password incorrect but I’m using the password they just sent to me by email.

  • d

    seems interesting, but to slow right now.

  • Ghoomba

    What’s the fuckin’ point?

    They are going to be targeted straight away for C & D notices.

    The watchers are hardly going to let this site pop up and gain noteriety without doing anything to shutdown the fledgling site… and it’ll happen quickly to avoid a lot of notice being taken.

  • Ghoomba

    Simon… WTF????

    Go punt your corporate “services” else where….

    What a fucking knob.

  • henry

    Kinda surprising that the evil empire havent been round clicking all the “dead link“ buttons. Or are they going to tolerate it?

  • teh dude

    awesome :) the TOS was to scary for me though, ill just wait until i know they arent sending my info to lobby organisations for threat spam and mail terrorism..

  • joe

    yea the site sucks dude let me enlighten you with ovguide(dot)com

  • tea

    You just endorsed the worst site ever

  • Bucky Boy

    Probably another MediaDefender honeypot trap.

  • yoharryo

    Yeah. Shame TIOTI completely sucks.
    And has done for a long time.

  • the.dwarfer

    EZTV is God!

  • UiggieBnz

    Toti seems to be offline now…

  • simcoe

    Sounds interesting, but EZTV is already feeding us with TV shows, and they’re doing it right.

  • SantaBJ

    Note how this would line up nicely behind the Betamax ruling? A sharing system based on social networking – you are *actually* sharing stuff with your friends. Dude! (but EZTV is still cooler.)

  • InfidelSerf

    Just signed up and looked their site over.
    Pretty much worthless, I didn’t even find one torrent file for the shows I was interested in.

    Thanks EZTV for being my DVR

  • An0num0s

    HA! and troughs idiots at BlueTack have added TIOTI to their block list as a “Media Temple” … so… anyone using Peer Guardian IP blocking lists are going to need to need to add it to their exception’s list.

    Great to see another site up … sad that idiots like BlueTack are making it hard for them.

  • Tyler

    I’ve been trying it out today, and It’s got some fun little features. I think I’m still going to stick with EZTV though.

  • bob

    this is the dumbest website i’ve ever seen

  • Kalief

    Is Tioti safe?. MediaDefender mentioned them as a competitor for their Miivi:

    From: “Randy Saaf”
    To: “Octavio Herrera” ; “Chris Gillis” ; “Jay Mairs” ; “Ben Grodsky” ; “Ivan Kwok” ; “Ty Heath”
    Subject: check out a miivi competitors name
    Date: thursday 16 august 2007 23:18

    http://tapeitofftheinternet.com/
    Click through to the site to see the name they are going under.

  • anonymous coward

    EZTV or Death!

  • Zennalathas

    It’s really a totally needless site…

    It’s not as good as a private tracker, but still requires sign-up.

    It doesn’t offer the end-user a single thing that EZTV doesn’t…

  • Axxa

    I find it interesting that my computer warns me against using tioti and eztv because of “security certificate issues”…was not impressed w/tioti and could not get to eztv…honey pots?

  • SantaBJ

    http://www.eztvefnet.org or http://www.eztv.it

    100% honeypot free zone. :)

  • SMithicks

    By far the best of the best is a site called sidereel.

    http://www.sidereel.com

    My favorite feature – rss feeds for any video with tons of links…

    enjoy

  • Anonymous

    [quote comment="180091"]Is Tioti safe?. MediaDefender mentioned them as a competitor for their Miivi:

    From: “Randy Saaf”
    To: “Octavio Herrera” ; “Chris Gillis” ; “Jay Mairs” ; “Ben Grodsky” ; “Ivan Kwok” ; “Ty Heath”
    Subject: check out a miivi competitors name
    Date: thursday 16 august 2007 23:18

    http://tapeitofftheinternet.com/
    Click through to the site to see the name they are going under.[/quote]I don’t trust it.

  • enc

    The site is warning you about a certificate because their certificate is still pointing toward their beta URL.

    It’s just gotten out of beta, users haven’t even had a chance to add content.

  • kmac

    It just doesn’t work!!!

    They launched before they were ready – shame.

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