Think that not much is going on in the P2P world lately? Do the Sharman Networks and MetaMachine settlements have you snoozing in your computer chair? Are you questioning whether the great online copyright wars have finally settled? Well hold on to your hats.

Just when µTorrent (microTorrent) appeared to vanish from the P2P news scene, a long sought after feature has finally arrived. Although July 22's news regarding µTorrent's new IRC channel was groundbreaking enough to settle the most demanding of BitTorrent fans, yesterday's announcement of a fully functional web interface should satiate the µTorrent hordes Indefinitely.

What's the big deal with a web interface? A web interface allows the end user to control his or her µTorrent client from any Internet enabled computer. For example, assume µTorrent user "A" is on vacation in the Caribbean, and is suddenly overwhelmed with the inexplicable urge to download the latest Knoppix release. Unfortunately the public WIFI connection at the hotel only has a lousy 300 kilobit down pipe - a speed next to impossible to achieve on a shared connection.

But wait. The dream of downloading that Knoppix release isn't lost with a slow Internet connection. The fact the user has an Internet connection is good enough. Assuming this imaginary µTorrent user has the latest web interface enabled client, all he or she needs to do it log into the client, and boom! - a web interface version of µTorrent magically appears on the remote machine. Ok, it's not magic, it's just some Java code manipulated via HTML.

So is the µTorrent user limited by the 300 kb pipe? No way. The end user simply uploads the desired torrent via the web interface to his or her home machine. The home µTorrent client accepts the torrent, and begins downloading - with the advantage of the ultra fast home connection. When the individual returns to the home computer, the sought after file will be waiting. Now, when the µTorrent faithful are away from their beloved client, they now have the ability to download, manage and even upload to the BitTorrent community without ever having to use Azureus.

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BitTorrent :: BitTorrent Clients
File-Sharing/P2P Related :: New Releases

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