New Service Converts Torrents Into PNG Images

jamie points out that a new web service, hid.im, will encode a torrent into a PNG image file, allowing it to be shared easily through forums or image hosting sites. Quoting TorrentFreak: "We have to admit that the usefulness of the service escaped us when we first discovered the project. So, we contacted Michael Nutt, one of the people running the project to find out what it's all about. 'It is an attempt to make torrents more resilient,' Michael told [us]. 'The difference is that you no longer need an indexing site to host your torrent file. Many forums will allow uploading images but not other types of files.' Hiding a torrent file inside an image is easy enough. Just select a torrent file stored on your local hard drive and Hid.im will take care the rest. The only limit to the service is that the size of the torrent file cannot exceed 250KB. ... People on the receiving end can decode the images and get the original .torrent file through a Firefox extension or bookmarklet. The code is entirely open source and Michael Nutt told us that they are hoping for people to contribute to it by creating additional decoders supported by other browsers."

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Show goatse to your children, and let me know how that goes for you.

What's the worst that could happen? The kids say "ewww!". So what? If someone of any age thinks they want to see that stuff, I don't see why they should be stopped. Frankly the overreaction by authorities would be much more harmful than the actual image itself.

Patriotism is about pride

Like white pride?

Opinions are not facts and should not be expressed as such. Try something more adult, like... "I don't like Slashdot 2.0 because of X and Y".

I'm scraping up against the character limit as it is. I think my meaning is clear as it is.

And no, i won't be reading your whiny ass response. Try to learn and grow. Maybe be a bit less cynical.

Well thanks for the advice anyway. Have a nice day.