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P2P on the iPhone


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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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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"

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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?

 

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

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

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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 :dev:

 

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

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

 

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.

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