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Burnbit turns just about any download into a torrent
Ever found an awesome download on the Web and thought, "Man, why don't they offer a torrent download?!" It's so much nicer pulling down Ubuntu ISOs at 690K per second via µTorrent instead of 250K or so via HTTP.
A newly-launched service called Burnbit is set to give Web downloads a much-needed punch in the face. Head over to their website, drop the URL to an HTTP download in the blank, and Burnbit automatically creates a torrent file and begins seeding. Burnbit's torrent page shows detailed torrent data as well, including the number of seeders and leechers, health, and MD5 hash.
There's a catch, of course. The host has to be serving files via HTTP; HTTPS isn't supported, nor is FTP. Not yet, anyway. Burnbit has only just launched, however, so I wouldn't be at all surprised to see them working in the near future.
[via TorrentFreak]
A newly-launched service called Burnbit is set to give Web downloads a much-needed punch in the face. Head over to their website, drop the URL to an HTTP download in the blank, and Burnbit automatically creates a torrent file and begins seeding. Burnbit's torrent page shows detailed torrent data as well, including the number of seeders and leechers, health, and MD5 hash.
There's a catch, of course. The host has to be serving files via HTTP; HTTPS isn't supported, nor is FTP. Not yet, anyway. Burnbit has only just launched, however, so I wouldn't be at all surprised to see them working in the near future.
[via TorrentFreak]
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Subscribe to commentsjValdronSep 13th 2010 7:25PM
Only problem, with ISPs like Rogers, we get 1.2MB/s with HTTP, and they limit our Torrents a lot... Ubuntu's ISO on HTTP using Waterloo University mirror gets about 1.25MB/s, and on Torrent, it gets about 700-800KB/s
DavidSep 13th 2010 7:54PM
And it's already being used for porn: http://burnbit.com/search?q=porn
mkoSep 13th 2010 8:49PM
Funny, my experience tells me, direct downloads are always way faster (no my isp does not throttle )
Perhaps the reason is my overall top download speed is ~110 kb/s
Bill MintonSep 17th 2010 9:39AM
I'd have to agree, and not only that, but I setup a torrent there for UT2004's dedicated server about an hour or so ago, and after waiting the half hour for it to do it's thing, I set it up to download the torrent and have yet to download a single byte.
By contrast, last night I used GetRight and found multiple sources for the same UT2004 file and had it coming down at nearly 3MB (yes bytes) per second.
BugMeNotSep 20th 2010 9:33PM
When I saw this, I thought it's kind of pointless. But I was wrong: Only one week later I found a very good use for it: I am currently at a conference with crappy WiFi, and had to urgently download a large driver. All HTTP downloads were terribly slow and ultimately broke off. Using BurnBit I can take advantage of the "self healing" properties of torrents, and download the file. Still slow, but at least I should get a working file at the end.