IIRC, there's a space where you just click "yes I donated" even though you really haven't and it takes it away.
read my post above. In all honesty, i think torrent storm is the best one out there (i've used them all, even chinese ones). Faos - i don't know if there's a mac version.
Don't you have to pay to use a decent torrent site? Did ya'll ntoice a precipitous drop in recent weeks?
I like <a href="http://azureus.sourceforge.net/">Azureus</a>. It does ask you about donating eventually though.
Might as well put in a plug for BitComet. http://www.bitcomet.com/ Granted it's the first one I ever tried, but it got a good rating on download.com And no complaints from me, it's seems pretty streamlined and doesn't take up a whole bunch of resources.
The "new kazaa", except not since you really have to look for sites that carriest the files (not a search engine). Which means the sites can be much easier to shut down, hard to find and your dl might not finish because ppl will decide to stop seeding, so it might be a while before it gets really popular to get in trouble. It's kind of nice for people that are used to mirc or look for warez dl back in the day, much more user friendly. Yet I think there are enough negatives to keep it from becoming a mass accepted program that will shorten it's lifespan due to impending legal actions. *knocks on wood*
It's just a file transfer method. There's no way any court anywhere could deem it illegal. If they did that, they might as well call Internet Explorer a piracy tool and ban that. And since it's open-source, there's really nobody to sue anyway. That's why there's a bunch of different programs and no single Kazaa-like standard. It's just a concept that was patented under the Open GL for anybody to use. It transfers files directly from one person to another and doesn't have any singular third party hub that RIAA and MPAA and anybody can sue. And it's not really a Kazaa piracy deal. It's best used for websites like this one that want to host a perfectly legal file but don't want it to eat up their bandwidth. Instead, they can host a microscopic torrent file and everybody who downloads the actual file will share the bandwidth burden as they download it from eachother and the website. As far as those mass download sites go, they don't actually host any copyrighted files - just the information your BitTorrent program needs to find whatever file from other people. Kind of like telling somebody where to find some crack but not actually selling it to them. It'll be just as hard to sue sites like http://www.suprnova.org out of existence as it was to get Kazaa. Much harder, even, than the likes of Napster. If you're one of the many who have wised up and started using Mozilla Firefox, you can add quite a few BitTorrent search engines to a search field right there at the top of your screen. Just click the thing to select a search engine, type in "Gay p*rn" or whatever, and hit enter. A page will appear with all the results you need. Click on one of those and your BitTorrent program will just automatically start downloading it. The program that a few people have already recommended: Azureus. It's a Java program, so it can work for Linux, Mac, Windows...whatever. You'll be running exactly the same program I am over here on Windows XP. It's one of the three fastest, and it has a whole lot better of an interface than the others. I certainly recommend it to anybody with any operating system. If you have OS-X, they have a build specifically for that. If not, there's a .jar that'll just run off of Java. Just click the link Bailey gave in the post right above this one, go to the download page, and click whichever one of the "Azureus 2.1.0.4" links you need. That Suprnova.org place I mentioned earlier in this post has a billion torrents if you want to test-drive Azureus.
