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Bram Cohen, author of the BitTorrent protocol, made the first BitTorrent client, which he also called BitTorrent, and published it in July 2001. [2] Many BitTorrent programs are open-source software; others are freeware, adware or shareware. Some download managers, such as FlashGet and GetRight, are BitTorrent-ready.
This comparison contains download managers, and also file sharing applications that can be used as download managers (using the http, https and ftp-protocol). For pure file sharing applications see the Comparison of file sharing applications .
This comparison also contains download managers that can be used as file sharing applications. For solely download managers, see the comparison of download managers; for BitTorrent-only clients, see the comparison of BitTorrent clients.
Lifehacker, a software weblog, took a survey of 13,823 readers' preferred BitTorrent clients in May 2015. It showed that μTorrent still maintains a sizable lead over competitors, despite concerns over adware and bloatware.
Torrust-Tracker [10] Rust: AGPL-3.0-or-later: Yes Yes Windows, Mac OS, Linux: Open source tracker and indexer. Torrust-Actix [11] Rust: MIT License: Yes Yes Windows, Mac OS, Linux: Open source tracker server, very light in resources and stable.
BitTorrent DNA (BitTorrent Delivery Network Accelerator) is a program designed to speed up the viewing of streaming video, downloading software (with or without the BitTorrent protocol) and playing online video games. It does so by distributing the end users' downloads between each other.
BitTorrent downloads in a random or in a "rarest-first" [14] approach that ensures high availability, while classic downloads are sequential. Taken together, these differences allow BitTorrent to achieve much lower cost to the content provider, much higher redundancy, and much greater resistance to abuse or to " flash crowds " than regular ...
In 2012, TorrentFreak listed Tixati among the top 10 μTorrent alternatives. [6] The same year, it received a positive review from Ghacks. [7] In May 2015, Tixati was the fifth most popular torrent client by the audience of Lifehacker.