There are many devices available today that are technically able to run BitTorrent, but the manufacturers choose to limit the usability of their devices. TorrentFreak chats to the developer of TorrentRelay, a service that allows you to download torrents on the PS3, iPhone and many other web-enabled devices.
So you have a brand new, super-powerful, web-enabled device that could easily run 3rd party software – if only the manufacturer hadn’t spent millions locking the device down so it can’t. Luckily, there are third party services that make it possible to put these gadgets to further use.
TorrentFreak spoke with Kevin Kowalewski of TorrentRelay, which is designed to bring BitTorrent functionality to platforms that don’t support a native torrent client, such as the PlayStation 3, Wii or iPhone.
As we had an iPhone to hand, we decided to give this system a go, choosing the easy mininova option (detailed below) and downloading a single .jpg image from a wallpaper pack. In just a few seconds the image appeared in Safari as promised, but due to limitations in the current version of Safari, it wasn’t directly possible to save the image. I know there is an addon somewhere that already provides this functionality, if only I could find it…but the file transfer component worked fine.
Here is a video showing the process on PS3. We follow up with an interview with Kevin below:
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Whats with the oversize heading? is this a paid ad aka RLSLAME style? I hope u guys arent going down that path. If this is a tech or offtopic post – kindly label it as such, thank u!
could this be a gateway to downloading ps3 games onto the ps3? if soo YESSS!!
no its not a way to d/l ps3 games on ps3. You can d/l from n95′s for ages. this is old news.
we can download ps3 games from N95?
we can download ps3 games from N95?
Lol
No m8 i was referring to the fact that you can d/l torrents on n95.
This is great news!
Finally torrent on anything that can do anything.
Thanks!