![]() ![]() One of the most popular clients that also happens to be cross-platform is Azureus, and it’s my personal favorite, so I’ll be using Azureus as my guide in writing this tutorial. There are countless BitTorrent clients, including the official multi-platform client from the protocol’s creator, BitComet and uTorrent for Windows and Xtorrent and Tomato Torrent for Mac. Respect the rights of the creator if you’re a creator, consider licensing your work under Creative Commons. Here’s your guide to configuring your BitTorrent client, computer and router for the best possible speeds.ĭisclaimer: I do not support nor endorse illegal downloading of copyrighted content. A few major bands have even released lossless versions of their albums using BitTorrent.īecause so many of BitTorrent’s users are computer illiterate, and given the security features in modern computers and routers that interfere with BitTorrent’s speed effectiveness, very few people are actually using this protocol, and its associated applications, to its full potential. Despite futile efforts by the RIAA and MPAA to shut down file-sharing in all its forms, people both tech-savvy and computer illiterate are using it. How Apple chooses to respond to Leopard’s leak remains to be seen.The BitTorrent protocol has been out in the open for around seven years now, and in that time it’s become one of the most popular methods for distributing large files on the Internet. ![]() We contacted Apple yesterday regarding the leak and didn’t receive a reply, but it’d be naive of me to believe that Apple and other parties aren’t currently monitoring these so-called “private” BitTorrent trackers for such activity. Whether or not Leopard’s leak (or even our reporting) has anything to do with this I don’t know. So any effort on Apple’s part to stop the bleeding, so to speak, has just become harder.įor most of the day today the Oink Web site has been down. It’s also in the process of being uploaded onto Usenet. The Leopard beta has since spread across the Internet and is now available on more public BitTorrent trackers like The Pirate Bay. ![]() It’s important to note that also within minutes of our reporting on the story the Torrent file in question was removed by an Oink admin, only to be re-uploaded soon after. I don’t know how his reporting on the illegal leak of a piece of software gives them the right wish awful, terrible things upon Nicholas’ family members, his mother especially, but that’s their prerogative. Within minutes of posting the story, several people, presumably Oink users, had flooded the post with genuinely vile statements. So when it did leak yesterday morning, we considered it newsworthy.Īpparently, several Oink users didn’t agree. But the WWDC beta-build number 9A466-is a near-final version of the upcoming operating system and rumors had suggested that Apple had taken great care in making sure that the build would never be leaked. No, that a copy of Leopard finds its way onto the Internet isn’t news per se that happens with every developer build. (Oink is a so-called “secret” or “private” BitTorrent tracker that specializes in music, though it also has a fairly vibrant Mac software user base.) We did so because of the particulars involved. ![]() Over at CrunchGear yesterday, Nicholas broke the story of the WWDC beta of Mac OS X Leopard’s leak onto the Oink BitTorrent Web site. ![]()
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