Web based bittorrent support

posted Jun 11th 2008 8:00pm by Juan Aguilar
filed under: iphone hacks, news

We recently came across a new bittorrent service called Torrent Relay that features an innovative yet simple function: it allows you to download torrents to web-enabled devices like the PlayStation 3 and iPhone. Torrent Relay works by having the user surf to their site using the web-enabled device and upload a local copy or enter the url of a torrent file. The file is downloaded as normal, only all the work happens on Torrent Relay servers. It works especially well with Mininova, using torrent IDs from the site instead of the torrent’s URL. Once Torrent Relay has the completed file it sends it to the web-enabled device. It is not without a few kinks, however, as it only seems to be able to download a single file from a torrent whether or not it contains more than one, and it has a size cap of 400MB for that file. That limit means you’re probably just going to be watching television and not grabbing ISOs, albums, or movies. Far from perfect, but how else are you supposed to watch Battlestar Gallactica on your iPhone?

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tagged: bittorrent, iphone, mininova, playstation3, ps3, torrentfreak, torrentrelay, torrents

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oh dear. Here we go again.

Posted at 8:12 pm on Jun 11th, 2008 by jonouk

no hack, no care

Posted at 8:38 pm on Jun 11th, 2008 by dj1298

it seems that juan does not want to listen to our pleas. He appears to be the major perpetrator of this crap. He has made good posts in the past, and the molten slag hdd destruction one seemed like a step in the right direction, but hes gone back the other way.

Posted at 8:38 pm on Jun 11th, 2008 by Anonymous

Absolutely fantastic, hardware platforms that don’t officially support torrents can benefit immensely!

I was trying to use this for Archos, but the site seems to be having issues. I’ve emailed the site’s creator Kevin Kowalewski as mentioned on a another site and he said hes looking for a fix within the next two days.

Posted at 11:41 pm on Jun 11th, 2008 by Jimmy Bob

wow, this site sucks now..

Posted at 2:20 am on Jun 12th, 2008 by tjhow

Wait… this isn’t a hack… wtf?
*confused*

Posted at 4:45 am on Jun 12th, 2008 by Louis

I’m sure plenty of services have done this already. I’ve been using bitlet for ages now.

Posted at 12:33 pm on Jun 12th, 2008 by Liam

Anybody who wants hack-a-day “classic”, change your bookmark to:
http://www.hackaday.com/category/daily/

Or for the rss feed:
http://www.hackaday.com/category/daily/rss.xml

Yeah, I know it’s not fun to have to change your personal habits, but it’s way easier than trying to get hackaday to change.

Posted at 12:54 pm on Jun 12th, 2008 by carlsonmark

@carlsonmark:

You got it in one, Hack a Day is changing! how do you expect a site to survive if it doesn’t grow? I remember when Mr. O’brien was barely posting every day, now we’re getting at least 5 or more! Please stop trolling!

Posted at 1:18 pm on Jun 12th, 2008 by vsnine

@ vsnine

Quality, not quantity my son,

Cheers for the tip carlsonmark

Posted at 8:09 am on Jun 13th, 2008 by jonouk

As we all know, BitLet is a Java Applet and not an entirely web based solution.

Posted at 8:29 am on Jun 13th, 2008 by Kevin Kowalewki

@vsnine: Personally, I enjoy the new content. It appears that some people do not and have not figured out the ‘daily’ tag yet, so I figured spamming the ‘daily’ tag URL for a day or two may benefit those who didn’t even know they were looking for it!

Posted at 1:13 pm on Jun 13th, 2008 by carlsonmark

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