Myka sneaks BitTorrent into the living room

OK, perhaps not so sneaky, there's a nice big BitTorrent logo right up front, but Myka seems to be quite the end-to-end solution for getting those torrents up on the big screen. The box hooks up to the internet via LAN or WiFi, includes a 80GB, 160GB or a 500GB drive for storage and runs a torrent client on Linux. Outputs include HDMI, composite, S-Video and SPDIF, and codec support is substantial. You can add storage via USB, and pull video off your computer if you're not in a downloading mood. Prices range from $299 to $459. Let's keep it legal out there, kids!

[Thanks, ARZ]

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 21st 2008 2:38PM]

Hey man, I'm sick of the "man" coming down on us peoples. I use torrents for legitimate purposes. Just the other day I seeded a garage band's sweet tune from my local town with there permission. And just this morning a downloaded this kickass calculator app for my PSP with modded firmware. So there you see! All legit, stickin' to the man!

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 21st 2008 3:01PM]

Myka better hope that Apple doesn't have design patents on the appearance of the AppleTV. That thing couldn't look more like an AppleTV if they tried.

A pirated design to service the pirating needs of the A/V community. Nicely done Myka!

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 21st 2008 3:35PM]

I really disagree with that, man. By that logic, any external hard drive case that is square would violate said patent. It's not a full computer, either... it's a bit torrent client/media server.

Pretty sure they could try harder, like not putting logos or a usb port on the front.. maybe add a dvd drive, to name a few.

Doesn't look like ATV to me...

Sweet it has HDMI though.. I don't really see the point though when I have a NAS and XBMC.

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 21st 2008 7:22PM]

Dude, it has a BUTTON right on the front! Jobs hates buttons! No way he sues!

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 21st 2008 4:30PM]

bit torrents have very little non-pirated content. i think this device is a horrible idea.

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 22nd 2008 6:58AM]

Don't a lot ot torrents have spyware or viruses hiden on them...any danger future viruses could be programed to effect our tv through hdmi?