GNOME bittorrent downloader

[Martin Alderson]

On Thu, 25 Nov 2004 16:02:13 -0500, foolswisdom <dlist at ubuntuforums.org> wrote:
> 
> Matt Zimmerman Wrote:
> > Some time ago (prior to the Warty release), a bounty was posted in the
> > wiki for the integration of a GNOMEish facility to perform bittorrent
> > (BT) transfers.
> > --
> > - mdz
> 
> ISP are beginning to use bandwidth shaping technologies to cripple the
> benefits of BT .
> http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/56419
> 
> I recommend changing the bounty to be for what is likely to be the next
> generation , Rodi ;-)
> http://larytet.sourceforge.net/btRat.html
> 
> A good solution would be not to build a GUI over BT or another protocol
> , but to create a P2P interface and have protocol plug-ins .

So you are suggesting instead of using network that millions use, we
don't bother becasue a few ISPs bandwidth shape it and instead use
another network which will probably have the exact same problems.

I think the best idea in this case would be to make a clone of the Mac
OSX 'offical' Bittorrent client. Very simple yet gives near complete
control over torrents.