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Xtorrent

Xtorrent

Advanced torrent client.

Version:  2.0 (v83)

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Be careful

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Contributed by: Saichology Thursday, December 21 2006 @ 04:12 AM PST

Product Platform: MacOSX

Used Product For: Have Not Tried

Recommend Product: NO

Be very careful about using or recommending an app like this.

- the developer WILL expire the betas at some point, forcing you to pay. check his other apps, this is his modus operandi
- although, as one reviewer pointed out, it does shield you from needing to learn about how bittorrent works - maybe you SHOULD learn how bittorrent works? If not, you'll be learning all about it in a real hurry when you get your first DMCA notice from your ISP, including how you could have protected yourself if you used a proper app
- doesn't allow you to create torrents, only leech, which is extremely selfish
- doesn't work with many trackers, who actively block this kind of closed, for-profit software

Obviously it's a free world and you can do whatever you want. However, I think that anyone who uses this over, say, a respected Open Source project like Azureus is crazy. It may look a little better but in terms of trust, respect in the community, proper participation and your own safety as a user, you can't beat Azureus.

And recommending someone who has no idea how BT works to run this software is extremely negligent. Don't tell me that someone who doesn't even know what BitTorrent is, or how to use it, is using this program to download Linux ISOs - it'll be copyrighted content, and when they get sued by the MPAA, what are you going to say? "Well, sure you're being sued, but boy it was convenient!"   
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YOU be careful - goer1

Be very careful about discriminating fellow users.
One: What's wrong with charging some money for a good piece of software after having given it out for free for several months? I'd rather have someone get some pay for his good programming than struggle with buggy freeware.
Two: Why should I be forced to learn something I don't need? I am happy with this because it does all I need, i.e. help me download the torrents I would like to have - all legal stuff I don't have to be ashamed of having it on my disk. I have no plans to build my own torrents, so what?
Three: Not true as far as selfishness is concerned - the parts of running torrents already downloaded are beeing seeded immediately - plus I can deide upon the upload rate with very much finetuning.
Four: I don't like being called crazy just for using software that somebody else doesn't like.
Five: I don't download copyrighted content with this - this is everybody's individual decision, no matter which software she or he uses.

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Saturday, December 23 2006 @ 09:53 AM PST


YOU be careful - aclezio

oh yeah, cause learning the basic concept behind BT is soooo hard... it might burn out all available synapses. there are excellent, non buggy, open source BT clients out there, albeit ones that may require you to <horror> think for a few minutes before running them. come to think of it, i'd really like those minutes back; it'd be so nice to reclaim that precious lost time, and just veg out with a remote in one hand and a beer in the other.

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Sunday, December 24 2006 @ 01:10 AM PST