Take That, Apple: Download Torrents With Your iPhone Without Any BitTorrent App

Apple created a little bit of an uproar this week when it refused to approve a BitTorrent application for its App Store. The company explained the rejection by saying that this "category of applications is often used for the purpose of infringing third-party rights," but many have since lamented that Apple’s real motivation may have been to get people to download videos from its iTunes Store as opposed to torrent sites (douchebags).

Well, guess what? You can still access all the free and legal torrent goodness with your iPhone and iPod touch simply by using your mobile Safari browser. We’ll show how to download torrents from your mobile and even convert every download to an iPhone-friendly video format.

Just to be clear about this: The application that Apple rejected did not actually allow any P2P downloads straight to your phone. It merely transformed your iPhone into a remote control for your BitTorrent downloads, while your PC was doing the heavy lifting to get all the bits and bytes. The same can be done through your iPhone’s browser with the help of a so-called Web UI.

Most modern BitTorrent clients offer such a Web UI as a way to remotely control BitTorrent, so you can download files on your home machine while you’re at the office, for example. Developers have also started to come up with a bunch of Web UIs optimized for mobile phones. A number of mobile Web UIs are available for Transmission, uTorrent and Vuze, just to name a few of the major clients. This article will focus on the iZureus Web UI because it’s feature-rich, iPhone-friendly, and available for OS X, Windows and Linux. And did I mention the video converting?

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http://www.salon.com/tech/giga_om/online_video/2009/05/14/take_that_apple_download_torrents_with_your_iphone_without_any_bittorrent_app/index.html

IN YOUR FACE JOBS!

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Apple is a BUSINESS, and they SELL the content -- LEGALLY -- that torrent sites are designed to allow people to STEAL. Yeah, they should allow their business to take a hit because some people would rether steal the stuff Apple sells.

And Apple is being a douchebag? Maybe the people who feel that artists don't need to be compensated for their work are the douchebags...but hey, I guess I'm just a little funny that way.

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out of the loop I'd like to be.

The truth of the matter is, people who pirate wouldn't pay for it anyways.

that assisted in BitTorrent.

That whole post was complete gibberish to me. :shrug:

Wow...considering the hot topic everywhere in the country right now, I'm amazed at the unabashed hypocrisy. Suddenly DUers say committing a crime IS OKAY, as long as you get what you want out of it.

Gotcha.

Carry on.

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Oh holy one here has never shared anything with people before.

It is ILLEGAL. I'm not a holy anything. I am an artist who holds thousands of copyrights of my own, and when people take the stuff that I make a living off of, and give it away to other people, it deprives me of my income.

But hey...it's just SHARING.

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It can be used to illegally transfer copyrighted works, but that's still not a good excuse or reason to stop the technology. Bit Torrent itself is an innovative and convenient form of P2P file sharing.

Either way, Apple did what is in their best business interest. It's certainly not in their interest to make it easier to load the iphone with music or movies that don't come from iTunes.

Go on