Filed under: P2P
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]Burnbit turns just about any download into a torrent originally appeared on Download Squad on Mon, 13 Sep 2010 18:18:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments
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