Facebook application from morrent allows you to remotely control and manage your torrents even if you are away from your Desktop computer..

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And to whoever said that FB are gonna get sued for piracy – hell no! The opposite! They’re gonna sue you for piracy after they they become FaceBookAA

I have another facebook app that can be used to start torrents.

Blocked sites:

Well, at work I can’t access the beloved bay, since the admin blocked those from the network, so when I want to have the new Ubuntu iso on release day I’m screwed.

BUT : I can access Facebook at work , and that’s where this little app comes in.

I can find the torrent of my choice on TPB using the search function of the app, I click the icon next to the torrent I want and the torrent gets added to my personal torrentfeed.

Meanwhile at home, my pc is running my torrent client, it automagically connects to the app and downloads the torrentfiles I selected, then it starts leeching the files.

Scriptlet:

I’ve also created a scriptlet, which is a link you can drag on your links folder in firefox or IE. If you click on this button when you are on a torrentdetails page on tpb, the torrent will be added to your feed, from then on your software will automagically do the rest.

Demo video : http://mytorrent.doplr.com/facebook/scriplet
The procedure is pretty straightforward, it only takes 1 click to start downloading. (vs. click link / file dialog menu / wait for btclient to start / hit ok to start dl’ing on bt client)

Configure Azureus or configure uTorrent to work with the app can be done in a minute, easy step-by-step documentation is included. Other rss enabled torrentclients work also. NO special firewall, NAT or network tricks needed.

The application can be found at: http://apps.facebook.com/mytorrent/

At the moment the app is pretty new and not much used.
I’d like more people to try it out and let me know what they think.

PRIVACY: I understand your concern.

The facebook people have no access to your torrents, because those are stored on my server and database.
The app has to keep trace on who downloaded what, so that data is stored on my server. No personal data accept your facebook id is stored on my server.

Legality :
- It’s not illegal to download or store .torrent files.
- If you have downloaded a torrent, that doesn’t prove you’ve downloaded the files linked by that torrentfile.
- It certainly doesn’t prove you’ve uploaded copyrighted works.

I used the facebook platform for two reasons:
- Ease of use: you can start right away, without setting up user management or templating.
- Popularity: It seemed an easy way to get lots of users since the biggest hurdle (setting up an account at yet another site) has allready been taken. (Didn’t work )

Basicly it was a quick way of getting up and running, and getting user feedback.

If people like the app, I’m going to set up a way to use it without a FB account.

If you are worried about your privacy, set up an facebook account, using a fake name and a disposable mailaddress.
You don’t even have to use facebook, just log in to facebook once to get your browserbutton.

One can only hope that more independent artists will start to use this, And show to the world that the BitTorrent protocol isnt only used for piracy, And if a fair percent of independent artists do use it to promote themselfs… With abit of hope if alot of independent artists do use it, this can be used as a weapon to fight anti piracy groups which want to force ISP’s into trottling/blocking BitTorrent

Fingers crossed that this will help the Bittorrent protocol to become more widely used and accepted.

Shane

A recently launched Facebook application for uTorrent makes it easy to manage your torrents when you’re away from your desktop computer. In addition, the application can also search your favorite BitTorrent sites from Facebook, and allows you to add …

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Facebook + BT = Industry rape.

You can’t steal music from the RIAA, even if they owned it. Sharing is no more a crime than radio taping or buying bootleg LPs. Because it’s done without their permission doesn’t make it so either.

I’m amazed people use facebook anyway.

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Things are pretty risky as is without adding an extra “middle men” imho… but thats just me.

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This is bollocks, I say! If you know what’s good for you, don’t use facebook. Their privacy record is stained, and they have about as much credibility as a Bush Administration White House press secretary.

this is total bull crap!

If you were in a (for example) university on a university lan, and you had your computer with a non password protected bittorrent webui for anyone on the lan to use ……

Would this give you plausible deniabilty if the riaa came knocking on your door? You could just say it was someone else using the webui, couldnt you?

Similarly, if you were at home and had an open wifi network and a webui, surely this would give you plausible deniability too.

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