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kzahel / jstorrent

JavaScript Torrent Client primarily for ChromeOS and the Chrome Web Store
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BitTorrent Bundles and Library Computers #68

Open mildinterest opened 9 years ago

mildinterest commented 9 years ago

I purchased a BitTorrent Bundle (specifically Thom Yorke's "Tomorrow's Modern Boxes") and downloaded it with BitTorrent. The next day my laptop was stolen.

I'm at university and consigned to library computers for an indeterminate period of time. Luckily my music collection is in the cloud on Google Play, and I want this album on there for mobile listening, so I purchased JSTorrent to redownload it.

However, BitTorrent Bundles do not have magnet URLs (it seems to be a non-HTML download applet) so I've attempted to add the .torrent file to JSTorrent, but when I do, I receive the error "Sorry. Creating torrents is not yet supported."

The library computer currently operate on Windows 7 enterprise. Will the drag-and-drop function only work on ChromeOS?

kzahel commented 9 years ago

I don't have any windows computers so I'm not able to test DND very easily. one workaround is to click on the add button without entering any URL into the bar and it will ask you for a torrent file. however I believe this particular torrent does still not work because it uses a custom tracker that responds 403 payment required and BitTorrent inc provides no documentation for how it works. :-/ On Oct 11, 2014 11:31 AM, "mildinterest" notifications@github.com wrote:

I purchased a BitTorrent Bundle (specifically Thom Yorke's "Tomorrow's Modern Boxes") and downloaded it with BitTorrent. The next day my laptop was stolen.

I'm at university and consigned to library computers for an indeterminate period of time. Luckily my music collection is in the cloud on Google Play, and I want this album on there for mobile listening, so I purchased JSTorrent to redownload it.

However, BitTorrent Bundles do not have magnet URLs (it seems to be a non-HTML download applet) so I've attempted to add the .torrent file to JSTorrent, but when I do, I receive the error "Sorry. Creating torrents is not yet supported."

The library computer currently operate on Windows 7 enterprise. Will the drag-and-drop function only work on ChromeOS?

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/kzahel/jstorrent/issues/68.

mildinterest commented 9 years ago

I really appreciate the quick reply. I attempted your workaround and you were correct, JSTorrent did respond with an error.

In regards to the lack of documentation, do you speculate this may be intentionally done in order to try to edge out the torrent client market? I ended up just downloading BitTorrent for that file alone. That's a sneaky grab at market share for a platform that's supposed to be all about disruptive forces and whatnot.