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A. The Most Popular Bit Torrent P2P Software.
February, 2008

Here they are: the most popular 'Music Pirate' downloading software for torrent file sharing. This list is compiled from hundreds of user comments and reader suggestions.

  1. uTorrent
    (Known as both "u-torrent" and "micro torrent", this is the most popular torrent tool today. uTorrent has all the functions a torrent downloader will ever need, and it only requires 1 MB of hard drive space and memory. uTorrent has all the downloading and seeding performance of its competitors, but with minimal impact to the rest of your computer's speed.)

  2. BitComet
    (Good, but losing popularity to uTorrent)

  3. ABC
    (Another very popular Torrent client)

  4. BitLord
    (A popular tool that has a built-in torrent search engine...you may never need to use a torrent search web site ever again with this product)

  5. TurboBT
    (Nice-looking GUI appearance with this package)

  6. Azureus
    (A Java language client; was considered "king" of the torrent programs until uTorrent software came along and took that crown away. As with uTorrent and any other software you install, ensure that you virus scan.)

  7. The Original BitTorrent Client
    (Authored by Bram Cohen himself; no fancy GUI here, but it downloads quickly. Recommended for programmer types and Macintosh users)


Warning: while P2P file sharing technology is completely legal, many of the files traded through P2P are copyrighted. Unless you live in Canada where citizens are shielded from P2P copyright lawsuits, downloading music, movie, and TV files will put you at risk for a civil lawsuit in any other country. These lawsuits usually take the form of class-action suits, filed against groups of users who are logged as blatantly copying and distributing copyrighted materials. Recently, the MPAA and RIAA, along with the governments of England and Australia, took several thousand users to court, demanding that they pay thousands of dollars in copyright infringement penalties. Please keep this lawsuit risk in mind when you install and use any BitTorrent software in the USA, Europe, or Asia.

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