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Xtorrent
Version: 1.1(v53) ||
Release Date: 2007-10-31 ||
License: Commercial with demo
($24)
Developer: David Watanabe
New bittorrent client from the guy who wrote Inquisitor and Newsfire. It has a slick ui, and is based on libtransmission, originally from the Transmission Bittorrent client.
Tags: torrent , bittorrent , p2p



34 Opinions:
Please new version !!! Upgrade Now !!!
This app has it's pretty cool features I must admit. But overall not worth the buy and it's also kinda buggy.
I use xTorrent like a demon, I honestly love this app. Everyone bitches and moans about it and the creator, even I have been kn own to (Watanabe, would it hurt you to reply to e-mails that are genuine customer suppoprt related?)... and as for it being banned from torrent sites... I've never not found anything I wanted using it's built in search feature.
At the end of the day, I honestly love this app.
OCM, I expect Watanabe won't open source Xtorrent. He's happy to profit from it, but he'll never contribute. He'll leave continue using the older version of libtransmission to avoid having to abide by the modified license. He'll just keep throwing more new features into the app to distract people from the fact that the heart of his app is ancient and limited. That or he'll brazenly use it and ignore the license, proving once and for all everything bad that's ever been said about him.
A friend of mine uses this because of the torrent search feature. I've tried to tell him to use Azureus or Transmission, but he likes the search.
This torrent client has been banned by a large majority of torrent trackers. Apparently, it's a pretty shoddy implementation of a very old version of libtransmission. In addition, the trackers seem to think the spirit of the developer doesn't fit with their vision of the torrent community.
Use at your own risk.
david watanabe is the karl rove of mac software development: an extremist, far right minded person that profits from the work of people with a very different approach and belief in softw. develpment. he copied once limewire, and he copied now transmission. beautiful app, but the karl rove of app. won't have my vote.
or they will have to fork libtransmission
From the transmission forum about licensing changes - "Portions of the code will be changed to avoid blatant attempts to profit significantly from our work"
Seems some of the parts that changed to a gpl license are the same bits added to the latest version of xtorrent. Which means xtorrent should be open source to comply with the license.
I like David´s apps a lot and so I happily paid for the full version of Xtorrent. The integrated search and RSS-Feeds really make downloading over Bittorrent a breeze. However, lately I had to go back to Transmission to download a file which Xtorrent did not want to finish downloading (looks like the most recent version introduced a couple of bugs). Transmission has really come a long way since i last had a look at it - and i guess i would recommend it over Xtorrent these days.
First off why would you want to pay for a bittorrent client. Especially one with all the flaws xtorrent has (banned from many trackers etc).
Secondly why use xtorrent when transmission is basically the same and free(ok xtorrent has a few more things but at the core its just transmission). Im not going to pay someone else when all they have done is put a wrapper around open source code.
I would rather support the transmission guys instead of someone who takes there code, uses it in a shareware app, then completely tries to hide the fact they have done so(ever noticed there is not a single mention of libtransmission anywhere on the xtorrent site).
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