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A lot of my files were shitty 480p versions of movies from the Napster days. Now they're all 1080p, with a few 720p exceptions (mainly tv series episodes). All in all 500 something files in total. Now just watching uTorrent slowly download them all. Hopefully my VPN keeps the eyes off of me...

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[–] [email protected] 68 points 11 months ago (3 children)

People still use that malware of a client???

[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago (2 children)

uTorrent 2.2.1 Build 25154 is good. There's a few builds of uTorrent that are fine.

But yeah, qbittorrent is the default "why didn't you use it?" client.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 11 months ago

It's good in the sense that it's the last version before it got enshittified by ads, but the now nearly-legendary v2.2.1 is also 5 years behind in security patches. It was an awesome, fast, stable client and I miss it, but I don’t think it's worth the risk. Like you and everyone else has been saying, OP should be using Qbittorent.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Which would your suggest? It's been a long time since I've had to do a little pirating.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 11 months ago (1 children)

qBitTorrent is one of the standard clients.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Thanks! I'll give it a go after this is all done downloading.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago

Tixati, Deluge and Transmission are also good, modern clients

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

A lot of the private trackers I use specifically block its usage.