http://hackaday.com Fresh hacks every day Fri, 10 Feb 2012 12:56:16 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://1.gravatar.com/blavatar/5560f98f805877b0e332f191cb9e0af3?s=96&d=http%3A%2F%2Fs2.wp.com%2Fi%2Fbuttonw-com.png http://hackaday.com http://hackaday.com/2008/06/11/web-based-bittorrent-support/ http://hackaday.com/2008/06/11/web-based-bittorrent-support/#comments Thu, 12 Jun 2008 03:00:00 +0000 Juan Aguilar http://hackaday.iheartcashews.com:8181/2008/06/11/web-based-bittorrent-support/ ]]>
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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