BitTorrent Client Transmission Gains Apple Silicon Support in Fourth Major Release

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Does it still leave massive .part files lying around when you only download a few files from a torrent, or does it finally cache the small bits of overlapping blocks?

Only if you want it to.

 

[cycomiko]

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).

Its not theft. It has never been theft. Its copyright infringement. Which is why its covered by a completely different set of laws than theft.

 

[doolar]

I use BT to download Bluray/HD versions of the DVDs that I own. I use it with a VPN.

I do the exact same but with the ones I don’t own. 😊

 

[bsolar]

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.

It's not. Theft deprives the rightful owner of its property, whereas copyright infringement does not deprive whoever has the original of it. There is a reason there is a different set of laws covering the two, as the two have fundamental different elements.

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).

Depending on jurisdiction and the circumstances at hand, circumventing DVD copy-protections (and copy-protections in general) might be perfectly legal.

 

[hiphopdan]

Been using this app for years and have been very happy with it. The 4.0 betas worked flawlessly for me so not expecting anything different from the stable version.

Highly recommended for a compact, easy torrent client IMO.

 

[7149041]

I haven't used a torrent client in like 10 years. Instead I use a website where you give them the magnet, they do all the downloading for you and then you can download the ready file, or even stream it. Works like a charm and many torrents are predownloaded, so it literally takes seconds.

 

[Muzzakus]

Just in time for the Netflix password crackdown 👍🏻

 

[TurboJobo]

wow I downloaded this yesterday even before macrumors reported this lol
yeah its now native!

 

[mudflap]

I'd switch from QBittorrent to Transmission today if it supported SOCKS5 proxies on port 1080.

 

[fredn]

Popular old-school BitTorrent client Transmission

Old-school? What's new school then?

 

[0924487]

The iPhone and iPad ruined a generation of computer users

University educated population still uses computers.

 

[Will Co]

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.

If the owner of that file uses it for revenue generation, ie sells it, and you copy it without paying, then you are depriving the owner of revenue. Literally theft.

 

[sam_dean]

University educated population still uses computers.

More like the income bracket who can afford to supplement their smartphone with a laptop much less desktop/tablet.

There are more SIMs worldwide than people alive.

These SIMs are attached to devices like smartphones.

Over the past 2 years...

~1 billion Android smartphones are shipped annually

Over 225 million iPhones are shipped annually.

PCs that exclude Macs ship nearly as much Macs & iPhones & iPads in the past 2 years.

2020-2022 was peak PC shipment since 2010. 2010 was 3 years after the first iPhone and the year the 1st iPad came out.

 

[SeaFox]

The iPhone and iPad ruined a generation of computer users

I actually tried switching to iPhone last year. I returned the device to Apple after a week and Apple blocking any torrent-related apps on the App Store was one (of many) reasons I did. I wasn't asking for a torrent client. I was just wanting an app to remotely admin my Transmission install (running on another system). But even that is ~too controversial~ for Apple to allow. The closest thing they had was an app to interpret magnet:// URLs into a link you could copy to paste somewhere else, since I guess iOS pretends those links aren't a thing as well.

I found one remote C'n'C app being developed independently elsewhere and to install it you had to jump through some hoops to use a developer certificate to sideload and occasionally reinstall it to keep it working. What a hassle for something that "just works" on Android with apps on the Google Play store.

 

[dotnet]

Mmm, yes. For all the Linux distros I'm gonna download on my Mac.

One can never have enough Linux distros on one’s Mac.

 

[dotnet]

Is that legal? If I buy ground beef, can I go to the store a week later and help myself to the ribeyes and filet's?

No, you’re not entitled to that sort of upgrade. Ground beef is not the low-res version of ribeyes and filet. It’s the low-res version of lips and arseholes.

 

[kgo2o]

Transmission or Folx? Haven’t tried Folx before and only heard of it after it was mentioned on a tweet. Anyone recommend it over this native version.

 

[johannnn]

Errm.
No.

Believe it or not, there are perfectly legal uses for Bittorents…

Go to archive.org here for example, and download an old book from the Getty Institute or the Metropolitan… or Yale University, published maybe in 1765, A treatise on Architecture as an example, and the files can be in excess of 2GB.
A Torrent is the best way to do this. Doesn't overload their servers and works happily in the background on my Mac.

Not everything is evil and out to get you.

No one claims there are no legal uses for BitTorrent. But 99% of BitTorrent traffic is illegal content.

 

[dotnet]

But 99% of BitTorrent traffic is illegal content.

Like 99% of hand gun use is illegal? Sounds about right. A lot of people still like the right to own a bittorrent client, in case the King of England comes along and takes Netflix sharing away…

 

[The Cockney Rebel]

It's old skool, not old school.

 

[oneMadRssn]

If the owner of that file uses it for revenue generation, ie sells it, and you copy it without paying, then you are depriving the owner of revenue. Literally theft.

"Literally" 😆

Not you, or nor anyway else, can prove that "depriving the owner of revenue theory." A few have tried, none succeeded. You can't prove that but for the illegal copying there would have been a sale. Most pirates download just because they can - they wouldn't have bought it.

Have you ever heard of music/movie/software pirate being prosecuted for theft? I've seen plenty sued for copyright infringement, but never theft. There is even a criminal statute for extreme cases of mass copyright infringement. Because it is literally not theft.

 

[oneMadRssn]

I haven't used a torrent client in like 10 years. Instead I use a website where you give them the magnet, they do all the downloading for you and then you can download the ready file, or even stream it. Works like a charm and many torrents are predownloaded, so it literally takes seconds.

Seedbox?

 

[siom]

Great stuff! I love light-weight clients.

 

[bsolar]

If the owner of that file uses it for revenue generation, ie sells it, and you copy it without paying, then you are depriving the owner of revenue. Literally theft.

It literally is not according to the only opinion which actually matters, which is the opinion of the courts:

Copyright holders frequently refer to copyright infringement as theft, "although such misuse has been rejected by legislatures and courts".

For instance, the United States Supreme Court held in Dowling v. United States (1985) that bootleg phonorecords did not constitute stolen property. Instead, "Interference with copyright does not easily equate with theft, conversion, or fraud. The Copyright Act even employs a separate term of art to define one who misappropriates a copyright: '[...] an infringer of the copyright.'"

The court said that in the case of copyright infringement, the province guaranteed to the copyright holder by copyright law – certain exclusive rights – is invaded, but no control, physical or otherwise, is taken over the copyright, nor is the copyright holder wholly deprived of using the copyrighted work or exercising the exclusive rights held.

 

[sdugoten]

The only thing keep me from transmission is that it won't pop dialog on magnet link which allow you to select which files to download. QBittorrent have this feature long time ago....