Bittorrent Goes Software-less
1649 days agoTake a look at BitLet. It looks like now you don’t need to install any software in order to download a torrent file. Well, not exactly, it makes use of the Sun Java Applet platform to perform the download for you. All you need to do is the copy the torrent URL and paste the link on their address bar and click on “Download Torrent”. I tried a few times with different URLs but all failed. It says that it could not “download metafile”, whatever that means. Anyway, it’s in beta or perhaps even in alpha, so you should keep your fingers cross and hope that they will improve this system. It could mean a lot to people like me who enjoy abusing every network I see. 
Anyway, I find this little project very interesting. No software to install. You can download torrent files in your office PC without your IT administrators knowing that you are doing it since there is no software installed. You still need to open up ports 6881-6889 on your firewall to allow incoming connections though. This is too bad as any IT administrator with half a brain intact will block those ports to stop the staff from using bittorrent which may suck all the bandwidth. It would work better if the applet allow us to change the ports needed for bittorrent access.
I would also recommend you to use a full-featured Bittorrent Client in your home. The Java Applet site is the simple and basic torrent client without any frills or additional features. That’s not what it is supposed to do and I am sure that the developers will not concentrate on adding features to their applet. And it looks like Java is now taking over the Internet.
