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- gmacster, on 10/12/2007, -3/+43It looks like it is built from code taken from the transmission project. And its made by the same guy who made Xfactor (stolen code from the Poisoned project).
http://transmission.m0k.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=610
But hey, I am all for more competition in the mac bittorrent scene, even if a few feelings are hurt. - sanmarcos, on 10/12/2007, -6/+43Please, do not download this. This is a developer who steals open source code and does not credit the original authors.
From the Transmission forums:
Mac:~ me$ strings Transmission.app/Contents/MacOS/Transmission > temp
Mac:~ me$ strings BitRocket.app/Contents/MacOS/BitRocket >> temp
Mac:~ me$ wc -l temp
2686 temp
Mac:~ me$ sort temp | uniq | wc -l
2092
I somehow doubt that 600 identical strings happens by coincidence. The MIT license requires only that credit be given where due; how hard is it to do so? - inactive, on 10/26/2007, -6/+36Where are the screenshots?
You expect this blunder from Linux developers. - snugsoho, on 10/12/2007, -0/+26Well, it is being developed by "Clone Software, Ltd." ;)
- snugsoho, on 10/12/2007, -1/+25Bitrocket is already banned on OiNK.
Quote: "Reason: Comments and questions about why will not be answered."
*sigh* - thejokell, on 10/12/2007, -6/+25Not so sure it blows Transmission away...yet. Looks like it's being set up for individual file downloads soon, though. Once that happens it'll become my default - for now I'll stick with Transmission.
- keesj, on 10/12/2007, -0/+19http://i5.tinypic.com/23uac1j.png
- aptiva, on 10/12/2007, -1/+18Ehm... doesn't he state that he uses libtorrent?
What code exactly is he supposed to have stolen?
Don't go throwing around accusations about things you don't know squat about... - sneeka2, on 10/12/2007, -1/+16Doesn't look bad at all, but still very much 0.1. Quite a resource hog too, 40% CPU on average. Interface is a little unresponsive. I like the integrated search though.
Hey, for a .1, quite good overall, but I'll wait for the .5 at least to switch from Transmission. Nobody's being blown away here just yet. =) - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+15Yes this was discussed in the comments on the recently dugg story "Mac BitTorrent Clients Reviewed". See the linked article for the discussion
http://torrentfreak.com/mac-bt-clients/ - dmoney06, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13OiNK is full of pompous *****.
- orph3us, on 10/12/2007, -3/+16best part about transmission, is the download rate in the dock icon. Bitrocket doesn't appear to have that.
- myheaditches, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12I don't need a search bar, my web browser can do that fine. The interface looks 10x more cluttered than transmission.
Call me when you actually learn what's nice about Transmission. - fredsterss, on 10/12/2007, -8/+20also see the discussion beneath the topic here: http://osx.iusethis.com/app/bitrocket
I do not support people who steal other's code, and i suggest you all dont either. - MikeZila, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13I don't care if he grabbed someone else's app and crossed out their name with a sharpie marker.
It works, it's better than what I have, and it's free. I'm using it. - deusx, on 10/12/2007, -3/+12OMG TRANSMISSION IS RIPPING OFF TEH MAIL.APP!
Unless I'm completely botching this (which is entirely possible), I don't think your evidence is conclusive:
$ strings /Applications/Mail.app/Contents/MacOS/Mail > temp
$ strings ~/Applications/Transmission.app/Contents/MacOS/Transmission >> temp
$ wc -l temp
12380 temp
$ sort temp | uniq | wc -l
11965 - inq19, on 10/31/2007, -2/+11I had a look at strings from both the binaries as above; turns out the only shared strings are calls to the standard Cocoa API. You'll find these strings in every Cocoa app on your hard disk.
What is all the fuss about? - rubeus, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10Yea no *****. Why don't you compile Azureus to native code on OS X using gcj? And then when you do, write an article about it and post it on digg so I can find out.
- fraggle35, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7I havn't got a nightly, it's right there in the general tab under prefs, "badge dock icon with"
- h3xley, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Are you sure? It uses next to nothing on my 1Ghz G4 (sits between 0.8% and 1.3% peak) while downloading in the background.
- Gideon, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8no digg, its buggy and its just not cool to steal code and don't give credit
- mikae1, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6First read about it here: http://osx.iusethis.com/app/bitrocket . Seems like it has a bad rap for stealing code just about everywhere but I have to agree with gmacster. I'm happy there's a new kid on the block. Transmission feels a little too bare-bones sometimes and Azureus is rather ugly and a memory hog on slower machines.
- StradAndStrat, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Stolen code, and then not even the features that he brags about? Almost had me going there, getting damn sick of Azureus and 75% CPU usage at high loads....
- poetofzwan, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8looks alot like uTorrent for Windows to me.
- aptiva, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7You need a nightly build
- festivalman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Having no encryption support is a deal breaker. With my ISP acting the way it does, torrent is useless without it.
- qpid, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6I've been using Bits on Wheels for a while now, since Azureus is buggy on intel macs.
- tobsterius, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Gee I wonder why it's called a beta...
- bigkm, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5there is actually some of transmissions images inside the app package that arn't being used in bitrocket (well i cant see them anywhere)
- SoundScape, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5I've been using Azureus on my Mac Mini for a few weeks now, and its solid as a rock. Must be the newer version.
It's still Azureus for my money. - youmustagree, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I found Azureus to be almost unusable on a macbook pro but the new 2.5.0.0 version works great.
- Carbamide, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Same here. I *have* to have encryption support. My ISP appears to block all p2p traffic (limewire, bittorrent, etc), so it has to be encrypted.
- stewacide, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4It comes with an example PirateBay RSS feed set up. Look in the top of the sidebar.
- trunkster, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I've been running Azureus on my Intel Mac for a while now and it was a little buggy until 2.5 came out. Now everything runs fine. Also Azureus has the SafePeer plugin which I would not run bit torrent without.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3My resource usage is low, around 6% on the CPU while running in the background. Virtual memory is high though, around 285 MB.
- supz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Do the nightly builds support UPnP? That is something that I haven't seen in any other OS X client, other than Azureus.
- jouissance, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I just want a decent client that's allowed on OiNK. So far that list is limited to Tomato...*sigh*
- bigkm, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Transmission nightly has scheduling support,
- Whosawhatsis, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4I agree, it's not ready to replace transmission, but definitely worth keeping an eye on.
- geezusfreeek, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Looks like Bitrocket does have that though.... It does for me anyway.
- mozzep, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Already? Damn. That's insanely fast.
- moebis, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Sucks. Just tried it on a torrent I was already downloading with Transmission. Continued it at 50%, it never got past 2-3Kbps per second and it attached to only 1 other client, ports opened to reflect the ports it choose. Went back to Transmission restarted the torrent again, now I'm up to 100Kbps within 5 minutes.
He didn't even steal the good part of the code. hahaha. - stewacide, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2...I'm not in on the history here, but trashing an author for *probably* planning to make this app shareware, when it's based on BSD code, seems a lot more legit than say Acquisition incorporating and charging for the GPL Limewire codebase (which nobody seems to have a problem with).
- Whosawhatsis, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2http://www.downloadsquad.com/2006/09/05/walkthrough-bitrocket-a-killer-new-mac-os-x-bittorrent-client/
- Xilon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2The client has been out for a few months iirc, I remember testing it a while ago when announced on the transmission forums... look through the threads and check out the thread dates.
- SPeedY_B, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Originally it was simply a Transmission GUI, however the project went offline for a few weeks, and then came back as being libTorrent based. I don't know how much of Transmission is left in there though.
- mackdaddy187, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2As long as the torrent clients for mac don't have encryption, they will all work at the same speeds where the isp throttles down the internet. And I use my windows box just to run uTorrent to get decent speeds.
- Xilon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2That's the point. It's Transmission with a new frontend that resembles uTorrent and similar, with added bloat. :). I prefer the Transmission frontend... so much cleaner and more efficient.
- Po0py, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Screenshots are important.
- stewacide, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3It says right on the page linked to that it uses libtorrent, which is BSD licensed. Not the Transmission codebase. The feature-set of this product would also indicate that's the case.
http://www.rasterbar.com/products/libtorrent/index.html -
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