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Good Bit Torrent for Mac

Wicked1

Wicked1

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Apr 13, 2009
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I was looking for a good bit torrent for Mac, as I own some movies but for some reason they will not read on my Mac Mini, so I was looking to see if I torrent one if that will work, one of the movies is Saw III, I have the entire collection but no matter what I try I can not RIP this movie.

Any other ideas would be helpful.
 
I'm a Vuze user, only because I've always used it and change it scary. ;)

It has far more features and options than I would ever need, but using it in the older classic view, it's easy on the eyes and it takes seconds to set up what I want it to do.

And it always does things correctly without any problems, which is good enough for me.
 
Wicked1 said:
one of the movies is Saw III, I have the entire collection but no matter what I try I can not RIP this movie.

Any other ideas would be helpful.
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Is this a DVD or blueray that you are trying to rip, I would be very surprised if RipIt was not able to rip that DVD.

RipIt to rip the DVD and Handbrake to encode and Vuze for your torrents
 
To be honest, I used to torrent and one big reason I don't anymore is because regardless of how 'legit' one's reasons may be for torrenting a TV show or movie (don't want to get into that), it's essentially one of the least secure ways of getting a file you want.

You can d/l movies and TV shows with a jailbroken ATV2 or with XBMC on your Mac using http (e.g., Megaupload, etc.).... you can even just stream them and skip the hassle. Still not 100% secure but I'm thinking a lot less riskier than torrenting. I'm just sayin'...
 
And1ss said:
Eh, I prefer direct downloads + hot links over anything really.
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What on earth could possibly be better than usenet? Any TV show I want to watch is downloaded automatically at a speed that maxes out my 50 Mbps connection.

jDownloader is nice, but having to search forums for links and copying and pasting them is such a drag. :p
 
Capt Crunch said:
What on earth could possibly be better than usenet? Any TV show I want to watch is downloaded automatically at a speed that maxes out my 50 Mbps connection.

jDownloader is nice, but having to search forums for links and copying and pasting them is such a drag. :p
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Some people have different preferences. Besides, it's not like I need everything lighting fast and I prefer to choose what I download.
 
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BTW, in a side note: why is it that always you fire up a BT app, the entire network slows to a crawl even when there is no file neither downloading nor uploading? I could understand the slowing if you were using all the bandwidth, but even when there is no file exchange going on, the rest of the apps get q really slow connection (if any at all).

Is there a specific setting you could change to avoid this behavior? Or is it just the way is supposed to be?
 
One fantastic feature of Transmission is the remote access. You just open a webpage wherever you are and you can see the progress of your torrents, pause them, delete them, start new torrents etc. Very handy.
 
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