BitTorrent is the go-to resource for downloading everything, but as its popularity continues to grow, so do the number of tools available for making the most of it. Some are must-haves, while others are a waste of time. Climb aboard for a look at 10 of the best BitTorrent utilities, tools, and resources for finding and managing your downloads.

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Also remember that bittorrents are often used for illegal purposes, which is against astahost chart. Moreover, using torrents is forbidden in a lot of countries, and some Internet providers have to report to police the name and address of their users which are dowloading via torrents, in order that police people know in which house they have to go in order to look for illegal copies of software and movies.
So, dserban, when you give such info, you must also warn the user that what they are doing is probably very dangerous (seing the cops knocking at your doors and bringing away your hard disks and all your CD's in order to verify everything is a really disagreable experience).

bitTorrent isn't only use for illegal purposes. A lot of linux distributions are downloadable using torrents, so is a lot of other freeware (openoffice, cdburnerxp pro, ...). It's a fact that legal torrent use is marginal compared to the illegal use, but we must remember that the torrent network wasn't made for illegal purpose (so are other filesharing networks, none of them was initialy made for sharing music, videos, warez, ...)

OK, I muss confess my warning could be a little bit too strong. However, do you think that the name "lifehacker" currently stands for "doing nothing other than fully legal and non-intrusive stuff" ? Simply, standard people shoud be warned that some acts are sometimes not politically correct and could be somehow risky.

again, the term hacking doesn't always have to mean doing something illegal. I mean, Top 10 Food&Drink hacks ?

A few of my friends use bittorrents, but I don't really do too much. For a while I used a lot of Kazaa and LimeWire for files, but even that is a rarity. I had a classmate get suspended for overkilling the bandwidth of our campus downloading cartoon shows over BitTorrent... quite funny. But I do like that there are a lot for use, but since it is becoming a 'shady' practice, I try to use it when necessary.

Lifehacker is a legitimate website, so far as I have seen. Here are some pages I have recently bookmarked:
Copy and paste if you want to check. I don't have his website in my browser bookmarks, but I often find links to him from other websites.

The last two are a particularly good illustration of his projects. Transform a PC into a MAC. He bought all the parts (and the software) legitimately, as far as I can tell, but I certainly wouldn't have a clue how to do something like that without help!

I find such projects inspirational!

Most people associate torrenting with pirating, of course there are legitimate people sharing things like openoffice or linuxs like ubuntu, but to be honest, most people who torrent pirate stuff. I can't deny that I don't use bittorrent just to get legal stuff lol.

Anyways, I would have to agree with the number one on that list, uTorrent is the best client out there, it's incredibly light, and gets the job done.

If you want to vilify BitTorrent for piracy, you need to blame TCP, UDP, and IP too. All things are used for legitimate purposes as well as illegal activities.

We are just warning you that, if in your contry the Police Department has people watching the BitTorrent users, you should be very careful, you will need to justify every piece of software in case of physical control, as well as every movie or every music they will find in your home. It's the problem of internet, it's the world of freedom, and some people abuse, some other think that it's legit because it's easy.