GetRight download manager adds BitTorrent support

by Jordan Running Jan 5th 2006

A new version of the popular download manager software GetRight now supports BitTorrent downloads with a bonus: Not only will beta version of GetRight 6.0 download files via BitTorrent, it can simultaneously download the same file over HTTP or FTP, automatically integrating the pieces from HTTP/FTP servers with the BitTorrent pieces. Not only will this make downloads faster, it will make downloads for other BitTorrent users faster because it will automatically offer the HTTP/FTP-downloaded data up to other BitTorrent users. GetRight 6.0 Beta 5 is available for download from the GetRight site.

Tags: bittorrent, download manager, getright, torrent

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Phillip Molly Malone said 6:14PM on 1-05-2006

Getright is awsome! They are doing some great things with it apart from bittorent. For example, they have a podcatcher as well:

http://www.mollyzine.com/mollyzine/2005/08/my_favourite_do.html

HTH

Molly

http://www.mollyzine.com

phizm said 2:29AM on 1-06-2006

Holy Crap thats cool!,

Anyone know if theres any open source clients that do similar things?

Surely the Getright people wernt the first to come up with this idea?

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