BitTorrent Comes to Cell Phones 101
An anonymous reader writes "Finally, a BitTorrent interface for the mobile phone. Dubbed uTorrent mUI, the web user interface allows the end user to control torrent downloads remotely. The interface still lacks the ability to add torrents, however bringing BitTorrent capabilities to the cell phone is a giant step forward."
Awesome! (Score:5, Funny)
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I don't want to be a spelling Nazi, but it's spelled C-U-M, not C-O-M-E.
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Fwoooosh (Score:3, Funny)
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Dave Chappelle (Score:2)
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Newly added (Score:1)
Pretty Misleading (Score:5, Interesting)
Not extremely innovative, I've seen web interfaces for torrent clients [sourceforge.net].
Neat? Yes. A good project? Maybe. "Huge step forward?" Not really, in my opinion.
I question the motives for bringing torrents to cellphones unless you can use other cell phones as download points (hence the name Peer to Peer). That's where the speedup comes from. I think cell phones are pinched at their access point, P2P apps on the phone aren't going to change that, they will even make it worse if both phones are fighting two separate choke points. Not sure if this is well thought out.
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I want to have your abortion.
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I can see this being somewhat useful if you have a long bus ride and want to add some torrents, but none of the torrent sites I use seem to have a cut-down mobile interface, so I don't see where you'd get them in the first place.
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Useless until it can add. (Score:2)
Useless (Score:4, Insightful)
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Repeat after me: I do not have the right to steal media content
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I was under the impression that most shows have the commercials stripped out when they're distributed like this. You were, of course, never under any impetus to watch the commercials, but is it really still moral to patronize a third party who are distributing a derivative work without compensating the people who actually created it?
Don't get me wrong, I'm not so high-and-mighty; I do something very similar, only it's shows that are only on in foreign markets. This is convenient, but I think moral is reac
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I use it to pick up the Daily Show and Colbert Report each day, I just turn on the client and later the shows are downloaded and ready. The RSS reader has a feature that ensures that only the new episodes are downloaded. And eztv only has one entry for each episode so you don't get hundreds of downloads for each show.
I know it isn't a mobile access to your client but it might cover the problems you
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Now all I need is FIOS and I can kiss Comcrap goodbye!
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Wow... (Score:1, Interesting)
Seems this would really tax wireless capacity.
Re:Wow... (Score:5, Informative)
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You know, cos getting in on torrents when their streaming is full force is like getting in at the last second on an ebay auction.
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It only seems like that because you didn't RTFA. (At least I hope that's why.)
step forward towards...what? (Score:1)
a giant step forward towards...what? I mean, seriously...just umm...how much space ya got on your phone there that you need to torrent files to it?
Is it April 1, 2008, already?
Freed from the Desktop! (Score:3, Insightful)
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I just heard from you (no, the other you). he says you are boring and wishes you would stop wasting all his minutes.
Thanks,
Me
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Misleading and over-hyped (Score:2, Interesting)
All this is is a remote interface, just like the http interface uTorrent already has. Useful? Now for most, but maybe so for some. The fact that you can't add torrents to it is a major limitation, but if you are out with friends and say "So yeah, I hear it's a great film. We can go back to my place and watch it if it's done. Let's see..." then it's a handy
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And I'm fairly sure I was shuffling Gnutella (v1.0 - Or whatever the original leaked release was) jobs on my work machine with it too.
Oh, and IIRC we had monitoring servers set up that exposed a WAP interface so we could override/trigger/clear error conditions after
"Giant step forward"? (Score:2)
phone 2 phone download? (Score:1)
No it's not (Score:5, Insightful)
No it's not. It's not really that impressive at all. They made a web remote control UI for the existing PC-based program, and then went to the website from their Palm. This has nothing to do with bringing BitTorrent capabilities to the cell phone.
This is lame (Score:5, Informative)
there are even bittorrent CLIENTS for cellphones....
check out...
http://www.adisasta.com/wmTorrent.html [adisasta.com]
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I must admit I have yet to use it for anything beyond testing, but it's nice to know I could get a "linux distribution" straight to my phone
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SymTorrent (http://www.aut.bme.hu/portal/SymTorrent.aspx?lan
Great... (Score:2, Funny)
azureus has that for a long time (Score:1)
infection vector (Score:2)
now our phones can be as fsck'd as our PCs -esp the ones running Windows Mobile....
I'm just sayin'
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The way capabilities locks work, you really have to identify yourself to Symbian signed to get a certificate to use any advanced API's. You can use self-signed certs for simple apps, but with that you cannot really do any damage or access any propagation vectors. Alternatively, you can get a developer cert to use capabilities. With this, you
Dupe wannabe article (Score:1)
A way to control torrents on my PC from my cell? I've never been able to do that with any torrent client that had a web interface. Or just the torrent client through a shell. Or any of a number of remote desktop apps that exists for the cell..
For God's sake, we've even been able to download torrents on the actual phone for quite a while now, even that is old news.
Besides, who uses torrents anyways? Usenet FTW!
Big deal (Score:1)
My NAS has a bittorrent client. (Score:1)
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Buh (Score:2)
I really believe BitTorrent is just a tad overrated. Or maybe I'm just bitter because it's not truly P2P, it's peer to lousy-tracker-with-no-seeds-that-shuts-down-after- a-week-because-mom-cut-the-network-cable-down-to-t he-basement to peer (P2L2P). Or maybe I've just had bad experiences with about 90% of the trackers I ever
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Thank you for using BitTorrent! (Score:2)
Old news (Score:2)
Awesome (Score:1)
Screw this crap.
Hey eggheads, we're all tired of the carrot before the horse crap. Put all your giant brains together and build me a battery. The most amazing, spectacular battery in the world, nay, universe. I want it to power my Treo (which dies after eight hours just sitting there, and yes I have my auto-sync set to 5 minutes and 15 minutes...all the more reason for an awesome battery) for at least five days using 100% of every damn thing its advertised for. I d
from the article ... from the summary ... (Score:2)
From the article:
Torrent mUI has all the basic features you could want in order to remotely control your Torrent application.
From the summary:
bringing BitTorrent capabilities to the cell phone is a giant step forward.
Yeah, I know I'm selectively quoting from the summary (i.e. another line says "allows the end user to control torrent downloads remotely".I also understand that I'm splitting some hairs here, but there is nothing new on the cell phone. So do we consider it to be bringing capabilities to a phone every time a new web application is built or an old host app has a new web front end built for it? Nothing has changed on the phone. That's the *point* of building web-based
Next step: An actual client (Score:1)
The easiest, lightweight way of managing torrents (Score:1)
1. On your machine you use to download torrents, run rtorrent [rakshasa.no] within screen [gnu.org].
2. SSH [openssh.com] into your box: from Windows try Putty [greenend.org.uk], from your phone try PocketPutty [svpocketpc.com]; from Linux:
3. Reconnect to the screen
Simple. No fancy-schmancy GUIs required.
Older than old (Score:1)
Is it just me... (Score:1)
From what I can tell, you are esentially giving him your uTorrent login info.
Probably cheaper to go buy it (Score:2)
High phone bill (Score:2)
Imagine seeding for 24 hours with this thing... ai ai ai
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Symtorrent (Score:2)
Make sure you have a generous data plan, though!
Seen it (or Fun With Linux and TorrentFlux) (Score:1)
Linux personal Web & file server + DDNS + TorrentFlux + Cellphone with data (read: internet) access = BitTorrent WITH file downloads on a cell phone.
Tiny phone and tiny functionality (Score:2)