BitTorrent Clients Reviewed

prostoalex writes "PC Magazine is running a review of several popular BitTorrent clients. They review uTorrent, an app that 'packs an outstanding array of features in 107KB, and doesn't even create a folder in your Program Files' and give it 4.5 stars. BitTorrent Client from BitTorrent.com, 'whose clean interface has three basic elements: a large progress bar for each torrent you're working on, a slider that controls your maximum upload rate, and a link to the BitTorrent Search engine', gets 4 stars. BitPump 'features an attractive interface that sacrifices a detailed feature set for BitTorrent tweakers in favor of simplicity and ease of use' and gets 4 stars. Finally, Azureus, 'a favorite with advanced users, who enjoy its plug-in system and huge range of tweakable settings', gets 4.5 stars. An interview with Bram Cohen from BitTorrent is available as well."

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An AC states and asks:

so you get home from whatever job you "work" at, find your check in the mail, and go and share it with all your friends huh? what a nice guy you are! and yes, i do fail to see the difference.

I'm not responsible for your personality problems or your failure to reason but I can explain myself.

In general, I do share my things with my friends. My computer is mostly useful for sharing ideas with others. My house, beyond keeping me warm and dry, is mostly good for entertaining others. There are, in fact, very few things that I own that are not made to do something useful for or with other people. I do, of course, get to set the rules for my own toys and that's an advantage of working.

As for software, I'm as happy to share my source code with the rest of the world as I am to share a recipe or grilling tip. There's much more in common between that kind of sharing than there is between sharing media and giving all your money away. Software is nothing but a description of a process. It's amazing that greedheads have made so much money concealing it's inner workings and pretending binaries are some kind of valuable voodoo requiring cross licensing, twelve story buildings, advertising, Armani clad heros and lawsuits.