Transmission

Bittorrent.  I have found what I consider to  be the holy grail of bittorrent clients for the Mac, Transmission.  Transmission is simply a front-end to a historic backend bittorrent engine and has been built to be (according to developer’s site), “Easy, Lean, Native, Powerful, Free” which I have interpreted as a very cutdown interface (especially when compared with Vuze, formally Azureus) and uses very little resources and memory; it just seems fast.  The other point is that it feels ‘Mac’, it completely utilizes Growl, dock notifications, and complies with the GNOME HID Guidelines. The other features include encrypted connections, selective file downloading and prioritizing, fast resume, bandwidth management, HTTPS, IPv6, and DHT support.  And what I consider to be the best feature, if you click and drag a hyperlink from a webpage on to the program screen, it automatically downloads the linked torrent file and starts downloading; you never have to see another .torrent file again!

You can get this for FREE from Transmissionbt.com.

**Of course in pointing you in this direction I do not ever intend for you to break copyright laws in your local jurisdiction, and do not accept any liability for your doing so.  Bittorrent is not all evil and has legitimate uses, such as my primary use, downloading Linux distributions while saving bandwidth $$ for the host.**

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