

Due to pirated content being shared, the website was taken down by the US government. The website allowed users to download copyrighted software and movies for free, which attracted over a million users per day. Good news is, Transmission for Windows is rather lightweight and not overladen with features or annoying things such as advertisement. KickassTorrents is also known as KAT was a torrent download website. Users who want their saved torrents to be world-writable may want to set this value to 0. See the umask(2) manpage for more information. umask: Number (default 18) Sets transmission's file mode creation mask. This is different from the majority of BitTorrent clients for Windows which let you sort data with a click on a table header. trash-original-torrent-files: Boolean (default false) Delete torrents added from the watch directory. While you can sort the torrent files using the view menu, there is no directly option to quickly sort them with a click on a table header as there is none. It is suggested to go through the preferences at least once, for instance to change the default download directory but all in all you can be set up and downloading your first torrent files in a matter of minutes.Įxperienced users may find it lacking in terms of interface flexibility. If youre using VPN, proxy or I2P, you probably want to enable Anonymous Mode. The exact functionality of Anonymous Mode depends on the version of qBittorrent (specifically, libtorrent-rasterbar) being used. Transmission celebrates simplicity and while it is a powerful client, even beginners should not have any troubles using it thanks to its streamlined interface. When enabled, qBittorrent will take certain measures to try to mask its identity. You may also configure Transmission to watch a folder for new torrent files, define encryption rules, or add/remove trackers from individual torrents.Īdd to that local peer discovery, support for DHT, uTP and PEX, and options to control the client remotely from the web or terminals.
