{"id":518,"date":"2006-10-13T10:09:25","date_gmt":"2006-10-13T08:09:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.breigh.com\/wordpress\/archives\/518"},"modified":"2010-06-01T00:03:24","modified_gmt":"2010-05-31T22:03:24","slug":"arrr-torrent-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/archives\/518","title":{"rendered":"Arrr! Torrent Love!"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m a Pirate, I admit it, and writing about TV shows recently has made me think of just how much I love BitTorrent<\/a>.  TV in the Netherlands blows, hardcore.  It’s getting better but it’s still nothing like back in North America.<\/p>\n

Recently we ordered digital cable but that turned out to be just more channels with nothing on them.   So we will be cancelling it soon.<\/p>\n

Movies usually don’t come out in the theaters here until anywhere from 1-6 months later than back home.  Often they are just coming out in the theaters here when they are coming out on DVD in Canada and the US!  Two weeks ago I downloaded the DVD of the movie Click<\/a> to watch while Xander was away in France.   Last night I saw an ad on TV for the very same movie, starting October 19th in theaters across the country!  Meanwhile, the burned DVD is sitting on my shelf.<\/p>\n

BitTorrent is how I keep up to date on it all.   I am constantly downloading TV shows and movies that I hear about from my mother or through the torrent sites I belong to.<\/p>\n

<\/a> The torrent client I use is called uTorrent<\/a> and it is the best torrent client out there, by far.  <\/p>\n

At the time of taking the screenshot my internet was slow so my torrents were struggling.  Usually I download at about 800 kB\/s and upload at 100 kB\/s.<\/p>\n

I’ve tested many and this is the one I find the easiest to use and unlike other torrent clients like Azureus<\/a> (which is run with Java), uTorrent doesn’t make my laptop churn like it’s trying to make butter.   It runs in the background without using enough resources to interfere with other things I am doing (which Azureus ALWAYS did).  I love that.<\/p>\n

At any given time I am downloading anywhere between 3-10 torrents of movies or TV shows (as you can see from the screenshot).  This has me incredibly spoiled and in all honesty even if I was living back in Canada I’d probably still be downloading torrents rather than watching them on TV.   It’s just so much more convenient for a number of reasons…<\/p>\n