Transmission v1.00 released – Let the thefts begin!
Sure, we all love STUFF, but who wants to pay for it? I myself drive to work in a stolen car and live in a squatter’s apartment. Yes, sticking it to the man seems like a full time job sometimes, but it is really the only way for me to get all that I am entitled to. Luckily, the good folks over at Transmission have made my life all that much easier by (finally) releasing version 1.00 of their open source BitTorrent client. Transmission Version 1.00 boasts a slew of new features, including a new Leopard-inspired look, Group labeling, filtering, and sorting, Statistics window, Connectivity from the Clutch web interface, Ability to set global and per-torrent number of connections, bug fixes, and more. Download the free app here.
Articles like this (even when done in jest) give the ISPs more ammo in blocking bittorrents! I realize there are lots of legal uses for bittorrent, but high lighting the illegal uses does no one any good. IMHO
TBM
TBM.. Give me a break. Legitimate uses for ‘torrent are only made up to somehow justify it’s existence. I am sure the % of legitimate users of bittorrents can be counted on your fingers.
TBM,
Great point! Hey, if you have a second, could you list the top 5 legitimate reasons for using Bittorent, and then your best guess as to how many bittorent users are using it for those purposes? Thanks!
-The Doc
Legi-what?
I’ve been using the Bit-Torrents or years, and the only time that I’ve found some kind of semi-legitimate reason for was when Azureus did the Vuze player with the latest release.
And even THAT wasn’t all tat legal. Let’s face it… I get my cool stuff fro torrents, but I make sure I do the “right thing” and share it as much as I got it shared to me, or even more.
But yeah, the new interface is a lot better looking, and oddly enough, this seems to work on Leopard, unlike Azureus, which kept sending my BlackBook into Kernel panic.
Transmission is one of the finest bit torrent clients on any platform. It’s a disservice to the quality of the application to drown it in legality issues, however funny it’s intended to be.
Whatever you might use it for, it’s a capable, lightweight, and well-designed application for managing torrents. It’s the envy of my non-mac-using friends, even if they’re in denial about the “advantages” of having a zillion options to configure. Transmission opens a torrent file and downloads the torrent, giving you just the options that matter. And it’s fast and non-resource-intensive.
This release supposedly addresses problems that were getting prior versions banned from trackers. It also supposedly addresses some stability issues. So thanks for the news.
But stuff it about the legality issues. It just kinda makes everyone look like either a criminal or a dumbass, when really what’s important is, “Here’s the latest version of a great Mac-only app.”
thornrag says “But stuff it about the legality issues. It just kinda makes everyone look like either a criminal or a dumbass, when really what’s important is, “Here’s the latest version of a great Mac-only app.—
No, it should be “Here’s the latest version of a great Mac-only app specifically designed to steal copywritten material”
No one’s saying it is not a well designed app, but it’s like saying the latest high-tech missle isn’t designed to blow things up.
FYI, thornrag and Rodrigo, Transmission is not Mac-only. It works on “over 5 platforms” according to their page.
-The Doc
Not commenting on other apps, but I know that Miro uses BT technology to distribute (legitmate) video. So I can see that there ARE some legit uses for BT, I belive we should damn the users, not the software.
http://ranger.users.finkproject.org/kde/index.php/Home
http://torrent.ubuntu.com:6969/
http://torrents.gentoo.org/
Miro (as Nitewing98 mentioned)
Yes, these probably only make up a small (very small) percentage of BitTorrent downloads, but there are legitimate uses for BitTorrent. Sometimes, it’s much easier to share large files via BitTorrent rather than hosting them on a web server and paying for an excessive amount of bandwidth each month (especially for an open source project that has next to no income).
But I guess it’s the current trend to sue the manufacturer for the fault of the user. Afterall, it’s McD’s fault the coffee’s hot when you spill it on your lap, Remington’s fault an innocent person was killed, and the Constitution’s fault we elect the Presidents we do. Ok, time to step down from my soapbox; all I’m saying is just because a lot of lusers use the protocol for evil doesn’t mean the protocol is evil.
Well, there is this obscure program called “World of Warcraft” that uses bittorrent to distribute all of its hundreds-of-megabytes patches on a nearly weekly basis.
I was just thinking that BT Clients are like Japanese Whale Hunters.
Yeah…. scientific research my arse!
“TBM.. Give me a break. Legitimate uses for ‘torrent are only made up to somehow justify it’s existence. I am sure the % of legitimate users of bittorrents can be counted on your fingers.”
“Great point! Hey, if you have a second, could you list the top 5 legitimate reasons for using Bittorent, and then your best guess as to how many bittorent users are using it for those purposes? Thanks!”
Well, I guess the ISP’s are right to block bttorrant traffic then! My Bad!
TBM
5 Legitimate Uses for Bittorrent (off the top of my head):
1. Permitting distribution of files that you personally don’t have the infrastructure/money to support
2. Combine with an RSS reader to automatically distribute files to others (allowing for the clients to be offline at update time) (also possibly decoupling the RSS server from the file server) We’ll put Miro a.k.a. DemocracyTV into this category just not to be redundant in any way.
3. All Peers to keep a number of computers’ files in sync without having to designate any single one as the server
4. Joost and other shared “streaming” video programs
5. Number 5 is actually similar to 4, but it would be offloading the server load for *live* broadcasts, which are expected to rail a server hard for a short period of time. Akamai be damned!
BTW, the new interface for Transmission is UGLY.