Thread: dropbox for torrents?

I have seend a couple of tutorials to use dropbox with torrents so you can ""remotly"" start downloading torrents using dropbox
see link Start downloading .torrent files from anywhere with uTorrent and Dropbox at Logical Tech

but Im wondering how safe is that when you use private trackers?? any suggestions??

yea cuz that's what I was thinking about, private site passkeys and then I may end up loosing my accounts, but thanks for the advice

Originally Posted by A_J

it's safe imo.
dropbox don't care what you host in them, and forget about robbing your passkeys and stuff.

there is a tutorial on site too, many people are using it.
don't worry about it.

Could you give link to tutorial?

I wouldn't be bothered by the passkey stuff because just above the watch folder path you chose in uTorrent, you have a checkbox to tick which is named "delete loaded torrents". So, as soon as your torrent is detected and loaded by uTorrent, it's deleted from the Dropbox folder.

Of course, Dropbox must have a backup copy of the file you just put into your Dropbox folder but i don't see employees playing with passkeys and everything else.

Originally Posted by Sannin

Could you give link to tutorial?

I'm not entirely sure that this is the one A_J was referring to but hopefully it should do the job: Start torrents remotely with Dropbox

You need to read Dropbox's ToS about how THEY use YOUR data (ie; torrents with YOUR passkey) how they see fit. Box.com has much better Terms of Service than DB and Sugarsync is even better.

Originally Posted by Bluntedking

You need to read Dropbox's ToS about how THEY use YOUR data (ie; torrents with YOUR passkey) how they see fit. Box.com has much better Terms of Service than DB and Sugarsync is even better.

People are starting reading those things we never read. Gr8!