Well, we knew that someone would do it eventually, and the ones who did it were the folks over at wickedpsyched.net. What they did was take the popular Mac OS X torrent application, Transmission, and ported it over to the iPhone's ARM processor. As of now, it doesn't have a GUI, but it does work. All you need to do when you are in Terminal on the iPhone is ./transmissioncli (name of torrent) and it starts downloading. If you don't feel comfortable with Terminal you might want to wait until someone sticks a nice GUI on it.

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Truly this man is the son of God...

Wow.

cool!

Cant wait to see the phone bills on O2.......

A friend of mine is a well known developer for the iPhone / iPod touch.
He wrote the Program "Fractalicious" and named himself "choo" or "jasamer" in this case.

He told me, that he might write a GUI. (I think he didn't tell anyone except me)
And I might help him with that when I have my iPhone and when I understand ObjC.

EDIT: He just told me that it's improbable, that he'll do that.
As I know him, this means exactly "I won't write this"

Is Nice i like it.

Think Mark

crazy stuff.

I personally don't have any reason to P2P on my iPhone....

But props to the guy for being able to do it...

I think I'd rather watch paint dry than wait for a torrent to finish over an edge connection

My iPod touch can begin seeding soon, hopefully.

Excellent, I was waiting for something like this. Influences my decision regarding buying an iTouch.

Last thing you need is torrent people sucking up all the bandwidth on a iphone, great I'm sure it will be popular.

P2p and porn is what pushes technology forward.

and who said what about bills? these new phones are always on, isn't that part of the monthly fee?

Yes with a fair usage policy, you start using p2p on iPhone I bet you get slapped.

Cool, but how many people are seriously going to torrent stuff to an iphone? Youre better off sending the .torrent to your mac and having it download at home.

Fair usage policies, O2 arent reknowned for being generous with over use, and if you're roaming....

Would this work on an iPod Touch over a Wifi network? If so, just one more reason to get it...

Hmm, ok, that could be feasible with a basic gui.

I've heard the iPhone's wifi connection isn't too strong because otherwise I'm assuming with the iPhone you could use a The Cloud wifi hotspot which is supposed to be free for iPhone users. Not sure if there's a fair use policy there though. There's also open hotspots

But to be honest this doesn't sell either the iPhone or iPod Touch to be any more.

Totally unrealistic, who the hail want his iPhone be connected all the time to drain power and suffer the danger of virus?

That's pretty cool.

If someone ssets it up for the iPod touch I am sure buying one,take my iPod touch to work and let it run plugged in downloading stuff! Hot damn I am happy!

Well if you're not opening the files on your device you shouldn't have to worry about viruses. Battery life is a good concern though.

Well how are you gonna get viruses on a cell phone? Anywho it is using apple OS so I really don't think you have to worry to much about that. I could be wrong about that.