Filed under: Internet, Web services, P2P, web 2.0
BitLet - a web-based BitTorrent client
First you need to know the proper URL of your torrent file. This is slightly harder than it sounds. We tested BitLet out by starting a download of The Corporation, a documentary that had been released as a free BitTorrent download by its producers. When we went and typed the download location into the BitLet page, it turned out that it wasn't in the correct format. Sure, we were able to download The.Corporation_Documentary_Shareware.Release 1.0b(Divx) -{mininova.org}-.torrent. But we couldn't figure out the correct URL to type into BitLet.
Eventually we found a URL that was in the proper format (http://www.blahblahblah.com/torrentfile.torrent) and the download began. In a pinch, BitLet seems like it will work. But it's no replacement for easy to use desktop clients.
Probably the coolest feature is BitLet's code generator that allows publishers to post BitTorrent files on their own websites. Just enter URL of the file you want to share and BitLet will spit out some code that you can embed on your website. Now when visitors want to download the file, they click a link on your site and a download begins in their browser. No need to explain how to download and configure a BitTorrent client.
[via TorrentFreak
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