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Old 7th May 2008, 19:02   #1 (permalink)
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Torrent client Mac

As I am still a mac newbie, I have no bittorent loaded, I use utorrent on my PC but just found it isn't fully up on a Mac yet. Which bittorent downloader do you use on the mac?


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Old 7th May 2008, 20:08   #2 (permalink)
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I like XTorrent because it's so Mac-y, and Azureus because it's so full of functionality.
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Old 7th May 2008, 20:26   #3 (permalink)
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This torrent thing, Is it good thing, bad thing or just plain evil?
Is there a user beware message here?
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Old 7th May 2008, 20:52   #4 (permalink)
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This torrent thing, Is it good thing, bad thing or just plain evil?
Is there a user beware message here?
Since you ask - what do you think?

My view is that BitTorrent technology is nothing bad or evil in itself. In fact, it's a pretty fantastic technology which makes distribution of especially larger files easier and cheaper for whoever is distributing them. I often download things like Linux distros, which is perfectly legal and acceptable use of BitTorrent.

That said, BitTorrent technology is used a lot to illegally distribute software, movies, music, books, etc. and that's not good. So in that sense there's a user beware message, sure.
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Old 7th May 2008, 21:10   #5 (permalink)
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Since you ask - what do you think?

My view is that BitTorrent technology is nothing bad or evil in itself. In fact, it's a pretty fantastic technology which makes distribution of especially larger files easier and cheaper for whoever is distributing them. I often download things like Linux distros, which is perfectly legal and acceptable use of BitTorrent.

That said, BitTorrent technology is used a lot to illegally distribute software, movies, music, books, etc. and that's not good. So in that sense there's a user beware message, sure.
I think they all pretty evil more so because its controversial unless other someone here gives me useful/legal links that we all can use.
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As I am still a mac newbie, I have no bittorent loaded, I use utorrent on my PC but just found it isn't fully up on a Mac yet. Which bittorent downloader do you use on the mac?
Bit Torrent have an apple mac client:

Get BitTorrent - BitTorrent

Enjoy!
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I think they all pretty evil more so because its controversial unless other someone here gives me useful/legal links that we all can use.
ISPs are trying to license bittorrent so i read some time ago, it will help them distribute important files and stuff more easyly , a god example of a "legal" useful harmelss totaly safe nice download is open suse, go to their website and you can dl their OS using torrent, another example is MGS4 online on PS3, yes i was in the beta but could not connect but the hing is i downloaded the updates using torrent (it forced me to use torrent on PS3)
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ISPs are trying to license bittorrent so i read some time ago, it will help them distribute important files and stuff more easyly , a god example of a "legal" useful harmelss totaly safe nice download is open suse, go to their website and you can dl their OS using torrent, another example is MGS4 online on PS3, yes i was in the beta but could not connect but the hing is i downloaded the updates using torrent (it forced me to use torrent on PS3)
Infinite Loop is correct, most of your linux distros are now available via torrent. In my old company I had a requirement to update over 1,000 field boxes, and I used a certificate server and placed them all in a P2P network to distribute the new Linux image that I intended to install on them. It was highly effective.

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I think they all pretty evil more so because its controversial unless other someone here gives me useful/legal links that we all can use.
So because something is controversial it is evil? That's interesting... There's nothing illegal about downloading and using a BitTorrent client, it's what you upload/download with that client that may or may not be legal. You want something legal to download? Here you go: DistroWatch.
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Old 8th May 2008, 14:37   #10 (permalink)
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I will vote for xtorrent. Torrent is very good technology which is being accepted by even bigger corporation like Apple and Microsoft. It helps the company to save lot of download bandwidth.

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