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Transmission 4.0.0 beta 1

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Re: Transmission 4.0.0 beta 1

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Post by bayesianbot »

zaik wrote: post #14
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?

The protocol should be able to find same files in other torrents - you could be downloading a bunch of files (like a season of TV), but are able to find and download one file from another torrent that is better seeded (like one single episode torrent). But I don't think any of the clients implement that yet.

Re: Transmission 4.0.0 beta 1

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Post by ksec »

diegoholiveira wrote: post #5

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

Well after Netflix, Amazon Prime, HBO Max, Disney+ and dozens of other regional streaming services, I started using Transmission again.

Re: Transmission 4.0.0 beta 1

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Post by cassepipe »

When I first came to Linux I adopted Transmission. It seemed less featureful than others but now I like its simplicity, does everything it needs and it is also very reliable.

It is not very known but there actually is a transmission-cli for common torrent operations that may come in handy some time.

Re: Transmission 4.0.0 beta 1

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Post by cercatrova »

diegoholiveira wrote: post #5

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

I like having true 4k media that I don't have to suffer through shitty streaming for, which often doesn't deliver the true bitrate of the media.

Also I can go to rarbg and find whatever I want, whenever I want, without ever needing to check whether this or that service has this or that particular movie. It's like how Netflix used to be, a single directory for all media, only even better due to the aforementioned constant and high bitrate.

Re: Transmission 4.0.0 beta 1

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Post by aequitas »

Andrew_nenakhov wrote: post #18
artogahr wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Yes, but "The Copy Data Bay" just doesn't have the same ring to it.

Re: Transmission 4.0.0 beta 1

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Post by nnx »

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…

> Transmission's long-standing history of going years between updates and their significant market share simply is not healthy

Agree that it's been a long time but isn't this V4 release about to speed up development? New cleaner codebase, new contributors, ...

Re: Transmission 4.0.0 beta 1

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Post by ksec »

My biggest problem with BT / Transmission is that they dont work well with DNS Ad blocking solution. As the BT client will quickly swamp and use up all available DNS quota for torrents. I am wondering if anyone has a solution to that?

Re: Transmission 4.0.0 beta 1

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Post by RektBoy »

netheril96 wrote: post #20

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.

Write it on their github maybe? Also I would be interested, how many people there use a VPN for torrents?

Re: Transmission 4.0.0 beta 1

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Post by Macha »

ksec wrote: post #27

My biggest problem with BT / Transmission is that they dont work well with DNS Ad blocking solution. As the BT client will quickly swamp and use up all available DNS quota for torrents. I am wondering if anyone has a solution to that?

I can't say I've noticed this, and I'm a little surprised DNS gets much use in bittorrent at all, is the client doing rDNS on peers or something?
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