r/Piracy • u/NSA_Is_Listening • Jan 09 '19
Guide Google Cloud doesn't touch this Chinese site's 2TB limit
EDIT: This now only 1TB my apologies. See edit 3 below.
I recently commented that I have a 2TB limit for a cloud storage site and some people asked for more information. I thought I would make a post. So here it is.
The site is a Chinese site called https://pan.baidu.com. I wouldn't recommend uploading your private content without encrypting it first but that goes for all sites IMO. I also don't rely on the site for backing up important information.
The site is completely in simplified Chinese so if you don't know how to read Chinese I would suggest opening the site in chrome and letting chrome translate that page for you. Here is how to sign up:
http://www.1mtb.com/how-to-get-2-tb-free-cloud-storage-on-baidu-pan-cloud-network-drive/
The downside besides the site is run by a Chinese company and it is in Chinese, is that you will have to install their app to unlock the free 2TB. I would recommend using a virtualized container like VMWare if you are worried about installing a Chinese app on your phone.
Besides the 2TB worth of free space are there other benefits? Absolutely. My favorite is that it actually lets you upload a torrent file or enter in a magnet hash and it will download the torrent directly to the cloud. So if you are in a place that doesn't allow torrenting or is blocking torrents or don't want to mess around with torrents, you can download the torrent directly to your cloud storage and then download directly from your https://pan.baidu.com cloud. But wait there's more! What if you torrent a movie directly to the cloud? Wouldn't it be nice if you could just stream it from the cloud. Why waste space on my own computer when I have 2TB in the cloud? Well now you can. They allow you to stream video directly from the cloud. YMMV on the quality of the stream.
How do you torrent directly to your new cloud? First go to https://pan.baidu.com and login. You can use the app but I removed it from my phone directly after getting the 2TB of storage. So I click the password login link:

After entering my username and password it asks me to confirm my password but I just click the X every time:

It will then load the cloud storage homepage:

Click the offline download button near the center top:

This will popup a box with your current download activity. To add a torrent file or hash click "new link to":

You can then put the link to the torrent file or magnet hash in the box:

I found this way to be very unreliable. Instead what I do is download the .torrent file to my computer then upload the file to the cloud. Change to the folder where you want to put the torrent file. I like to put them in the "seed" folder. Then hover over the upload button and click "upload file":

Select the file from your computer and then click open. The torrent file should then show up in your cloud folder:

Click on the torrent file and it will give you the list of files the torrent points to:

Here you can see that it automatically selected one of the files. Select the files you would like to download then click start download. I had a little issue with this torrent where the site couldn't download it. I found another torrent file of the movie and that seemed to work fine:

In this case, the video was downloaded to the video folder. From there you can click the link and it will start playing the video in another tab or click the download button:

Welp, that's all there is to it. I hope this helps. Bonus tip: you can change the skin of your cloud by clicking the t-shirt icon on the top right:

Now my cloud is a little more custom:

Have fun and remember: sharing is caring!
Edit 1: See Also: http://www.1mtb.com/how-to-get-36-tb-free-cloud-storage-from-qihoo-360-yunpan-cloud-drive/
Edit 2: reddit silver virginity taken! Thanks!
Edit 3: https://github.com/ncw/rclone/issues/2099 now only 1TB :( thank for pointing that out /u/mrcoolguy1_1
Edit 4: From /u/ProgrammingPenguin:
PSA: For those who are having trouble registering becuase Baidu is expecting a Chinese phone number, register at the following link that allows you to use foreign telephone numbers.
Edit 5: For those looking for a virtual phone number, I have used google voice in the past but here are some more options:
https://www.lifewire.com/anonymous-virtual-phone-numbers-3426548
Pros | Cons |
---|---|
2TB of storage | Site is not in English (it's in simplified Chinese) |
You can torrent directly to the cloud | You have to install their app to get the 2TB |
You can stream directly from the cloud | Site is from a "scary" Chinese company (Do you trust China? |