I just finished watching Battlestar Galactica Season 3 on DVD. Season 4 has already aired half it’s season on Sci-Fi and only the last 3 episodes are available online.
How am I supposed to catch up without waiting for a season 4 DVD release? BitTorrents of course.
According to Wikipedia:
“BitTorrent is a peer-to-peer file sharing (P2P) communications protocol. BitTorrent is a method of distributing large amounts of data widely without the original distributor incurring the entire costs of hardware, hosting, and bandwidth resources. Instead, when data is distributed using the BitTorrent protocol, each recipient supplies pieces of the data to newer recipients, reducing the cost and burden on any given individual source, providing redundancy against system problems, and reducing dependence on the original distributor.”
To put it in plain English – BitTorrent is the main way to get pirated movies, music, and TV shows. Everyone has seen the PSA at the beginning of every DVD that goes like:
BitTorrents is what that PSA is referring to. There are many different BitTorrent programs that you can use to download the torrents. I was looking for one that was simple, clean, and mac compatible.
I chose Transmission. Transmission has been built from the ground up to be a lightweight, yet powerful BitTorrent client.
It’s simple, intuitive interface is designed to integrate tightly with whatever computing environment you choose to use. Transmission strikes a balance between providing useful functionality without feature bloat. Furthermore, it is free for anyone to use or modify.
Now I have all 10 episodes of Battlestar Galactica Season 4 on my iPod touch and I can catch up before the mid-season premiere this fall!!!
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