Good timing on this as Netflix is set on screwing over families with multiple locations.
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BitTorrent Client Transmission Gains Apple Silicon Support in Fourth Major Release
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A generation used to break dance to Don't Copy that Floppy! glad that issue was resolved and we don't copy floppies anymore 
With regards to protected, digital content, of course it is theft. Copying a bike (bad analogy) requires you to BUY parts to do so. Downloading a premium version of something you own without paying for that premium is theft.
DVD's are copy-protected for a reason. As far as I Know, there aren't laws against copying a bike (apart from Trademark laws if you wind up selling what you copied).
Netflix doesn't have a family plan. Why would they be screwing over families that live in different houses, towns, cities, states or countries?
You can be as cynical as you want.
It's what I use it for.
Your milage may vary.
*shrug*
From the qBitTorrent download page:
"The macOS version is not well supported, because we don't have active macOS developers/contributors.
The project is in need of macOS developers. If you are a macOS developer willing to help, just go to our bug tracker for a list of macOS related issues. Or try to fix bugs that you yourself have discovered and annoy you."
It seems that both qBitTorrent and Transmission are in development with very limited resources.
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yeah im cynical but i love the fact that you use it for this to be clear. might be the first legit use i've heard of outside the whole 'linux distro' joke
How can a torrent client be used for that?.
In that logic, I think plain email is also very “dangerous”, as encrypted chat apps.
The manufacturer of the bike might beg to differ, since they were only paid for one.
What is terrible about Transmission? I've used it for years & it does exactly what I need it to do. The fact that it's simple, clean and efficient is a bonus.
Hentai, oopai…and malware infected Adobe Creative Suite for the gullibles who don’t care about their data.
A generation used to break dance to Don't Copy that Floppy! glad that issue was resolved and we don't copy floppies anymore
We used to meet meet the local warez salesman in dark alleys. He’d look around to see if anyone was watching and then we’d exchange 5 bucks for 5 floppies of games.
Get home. Insert floppy. The mf gave me 3 empty floppies, one floppy with an adult game, one floppy with a virus.
This is how it used to be.
There was also a guy who went around in a red car. He called himself ‘Rent-A-Video’. He had 300 VHS tapes in the back of his car. He told me had Die Hard 2 before it was released. I gave him 3 bucks to rent it. Put it in the video player in front of the family. That mf gave me a German porn film and it was playing right in front of family eating dinner.
Those trackers (the exclusive ones with content you can't find anywhere else) are not for your average user: they require maintaining a ratio, seeding what you download, and logging into the tracker once a while so it doesn't get disabled for inactivity. Too much downloading and you get banned. Plus, the biggest barrier to entry is getting an invite in the first place.
There are private trackers for general content (i.e., mainstream stuff), those are way more accessible than something that is dedicated specifically for say, TV shows or movies. And they sometimes have open signups.
I have a gigabit internet connection and no matter what settings I change in the app, it goes 4-5 times slower than qBittorrent for the same torrent with the same settings. It also takes WAY longer to receive more seeders on a torrent than qBittorrent which saturates my gigabit line almost instantly. I have tested this on at least 30 different files because I really would prefer to use Transmission because it's so simple and nice looking, bt I really want to use Transmission, but it's much slower than qBittorrent. qBittorrent acquires seeders much faster than Transmission and so the download speed is much quicker, but Transmission seems to never get anywhere near the speed I'm getting out of qBittorrent. I've been using Transmission since it came out and it seems to have gotten worse, not better.
qBittorrent is a native Apple Silicon app. It's Universal. Has been for quite some time now. A lot longer than Transmission. Despite it not being "well supported" it works far better for me than Transmission.
This is exactly why I use qBitorrent (I seed hundreds of files).
The only alternatives for me are:
- Deluge: amazing for snatching quickly and torrent racing, it's very aggressive at downloading stuff. Not great when you have hundreds of torrents, it's quite "heavy".
- rTorrent with ruTorrent web UI: the premier choice for seedboxes. It's stable, lightweight and has been around for a very long time. I trust it more than qBitorrent, but it's also harder to set up unless you have a script that will install it for you.
rTorrent is great. Actually Transmission web UI is fantastic for seedboxes as well, just the desktop app is trash. But I still prefer rTorrent. The problem with Deluge is it hasn't had an update in years on macOS. So yeah ... qBittorrent for desktop ... rTorrent for seedboxes.
Ever heard of pornography, pirated movies, music, ebooks, audiobooks, pirated software & games etc. It's done on torrents. It has nothing to do with dark web. Plus its also used for downloading large files in a distributed manner
Theft necessarily involves depriving the owner of using their property. Source to legal dictionary.
Stealing a bike means the owner can't use their bike anymore. To extend the analogy, it is still technically theft to attach your own lock to a parked bike even if you don't take the bike. You haven't taken the bike, but your lock is depriving the owner of their use of the bike so it is theft.
Copying a file doesn't deprive the owner of anything. They're still free to use it however they like.
Copying without permission is infringing on a copyright. It might also be a number of business torts. But it is certainly not theft.
No actually it's used to download comic book movies that won't be around in ten years, let alone a century.
“Old-school?” Damn. Thanks for making me feel like a dinosaur