Transmission 4.0.0 beta 1 • Hacker News Board

Re: Transmission 4.0.0 beta 1

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Post by artogahr » Fri, Oct 07, 2022, 8:35 AM UTC

diegoholiveira wrote: post #5

After Netflix and others streaming services, I stop using Transmission. What’s the current usage of BitTorrent?

Streaming services are increasingly going over cable TV route and screwing customers over. The age of piracy is back.

Re: Transmission 4.0.0 beta 1

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Post by magnio » Fri, Oct 07, 2022, 8:35 AM UTC

diegoholiveira wrote: post #5

After Netflix and others streaming services, I stop using Transmission. What’s the current usage of BitTorrent?

To remove the "other" part.

Re: Transmission 4.0.0 beta 1

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Post by DoctorOW » Fri, Oct 07, 2022, 8:39 AM UTC

diegoholiveira wrote: post #5

After Netflix and others streaming services, I stop using Transmission. What’s the current usage of BitTorrent?

I personally use it for big files, still my goto when downloading Debian ISOs.

Re: Transmission 4.0.0 beta 1

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Post by zaik » Fri, Oct 07, 2022, 8:42 AM UTC

KennyBlanken wrote: post #8

This release is really important if only because it supports BitTorrent V2 spec. Transmission has a huge market share, particularly in open source circles. Lack of support for the V2 spec has stopped many open source projects from migrating their torrents to the V2 spec, because transmission clients won't work. Please support and use other open-source torrent clients, because Transmission's long-standing history of g…

I think Transmission works great. What's the v2 killer feature?

Re: Transmission 4.0.0 beta 1

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Post by Y-bar » Fri, Oct 07, 2022, 8:43 AM UTC

diegoholiveira wrote: post #5

After Netflix and others streaming services, I stop using Transmission. What’s the current usage of BitTorrent?

For example, buying a 4K HDR movie on iTunes does not allow you to even cache it locally (https://discussions.apple.com/thread/251320670), it is 100% streamed meaning you have to have a very sizeable and stable internet connection to watch it uninterrupted. Downloading it from a side channel means you can buy it on your favourite platform and actually keep it on your computer.

Re: Transmission 4.0.0 beta 1

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Post by Scoundreller » Fri, Oct 07, 2022, 8:44 AM UTC

diegoholiveira wrote: post #5

After Netflix and others streaming services, I stop using Transmission. What’s the current usage of BitTorrent?

Still use it for a lot of documentaries. Also handy for offline viewing on a laptop (Netflix does that but only on a phone as far as I know).

Used it today for some archive.org content

Re: Transmission 4.0.0 beta 1

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Post by mullsork » Fri, Oct 07, 2022, 8:45 AM UTC

Congrats! It would be interesting to hear more about the rewrite, 18% code reduction is significant. Have any of the contributors written about it somewhere?

Re: Transmission 4.0.0 beta 1

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Post by Andrew_nenakhov » Fri, Oct 07, 2022, 8:45 AM UTC

artogahr wrote: post #11

diegoholiveira wrote: post #5

After Netflix and others streaming services, I stop using Transmission. What’s the current usage of BitTorrent?

Streaming services are increasingly going over cable TV route and screwing customers over. The age of piracy is back.

Please, don't call copyright infringement 'piracy'. Piracy is a penal crime that involves violence, theft of property and is often accompanied by murders. Torrenting is just copying data.

Re: Transmission 4.0.0 beta 1

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Post by cassepipe » Fri, Oct 07, 2022, 8:48 AM UTC

ElCheapo wrote: post #2

Still no support for webtorrents, making it impossible to use it for helping to lighten the load of my favorite peertube VODs :(

Could you explain what it is why it would be nice to have ?

Re: Transmission 4.0.0 beta 1

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Post by netheril96 » Fri, Oct 07, 2022, 8:49 AM UTC

As a Chinese, I really need the anti leeching capabilities, as too many people here use Xunlei that only download but never upload. Sad to see that the maintainers skip this again.