BitTorrent is usable now
Posted by creining | Filed under Uncategorized
I tried BitTorrent quite some time ago. I was unimpressed. First off, the linux BitTorrent client I was using (and *the only* BitTorrent client at that time) was rather crude and difficult to get working. Add that to the fact that once I did get the client working properly I found a general lack of torrents. I decided to give it another shot recently (primarily for the new Sopranos episodes). I found a java based BitTorrent client, Azureus, that’s pretty slick in a KDE-ish sort of way. There is also a wealth of torrent sites now, such as suprnova.org, that make finding what you’re looking for extremely easy. Therefore, I’m impressed by BitTorrent now. Some of the freshest thinking though is combining RSS with BitTorrent. This would involve subscribing to an RSS feed of say, Sopranos, which would start automatically downloading all new episodes when available. I actually found one site who has made that idea a reality.
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