Tribler can help you share various types of contents by using the BitTorrent protocol. It has the obvious advantage of letting you find what you need directly from its interface. In this regard, it can search not only on some video sharing sites but also find what other Tribler users are currently sharing.
The program has a straightforward interface in which tabs take you straight to the desired function. The first of these tabs shows the results of your searches. The second one, in turn, allows inspecting different content channels that are available. Channels are the way Tribler users share and promote torrents. They can be filtered and marked as favorites for easy future reference. Moreover, you can use the program to easily create your own channels. Besides, the channels that many users have marked as favorites receive credits, which means that they become visible to others. In addition to its features that allow finding and sharing contents, Tribler can also work as a BitTorrent download manager, with the possibility of accelerating, pausing and stopping your downloads. It has an integrated video player as well to let you preview movies without installing a third-party program.
In general, Tribler represents an innovative way to share different types of data. It lets your computer act as an exit node, which helps other users transfer contents anonymously. In terms of copyright and intellectual property issues, I recommend its users to make a legally responsible usage of this tool.
v6.1 [Apr 20, 2013]
- Faster downloads: Switched from the old python based bittorrent core to Rasterbar's libtorrent, so expect less resource usage too, we are saturating a symmetric 100Mb/s connection without much trouble.
- Less disk and CPU consumption used for community synchronization.
- UI improvements (download speed graphs, some new icons, general UI cleanup...)
- Throttling (Bandwidth limitation) is working again.
- The LibSwift engine has been updated too.
- The "Save as" dialog has been modified to improve usability when downloading from magnet links.
- Thumbnails for downloaded media: Now when a new video file gets downloaded, Tribler will automatically create a thumbnail and make it available to the rest of peers to be shown on the search results for all the media you download from your favourite open channels.
- Fixed freezing at startup on some machines.
- Fixed race conditions and lockups in synchronizations.
- Various bug fixes and minor improvements.
- Fixes for the bugs reported by the community during beta1 and beta2
