Will OSX Build In Torrenting?

Cjattwood writes "Mac OS rumors has an article describing a possible implementation of a Bittorrent client into Mac OS X 10.5 "Leopard", including a unique sharing reward system where the user can share bandwidth and get rewards, such as credit in the iTunes store."

BitTorrent still has a better incentive scheme

[Realistic_Dragon]

You upload a little and you get infinite download credit for whatever movie you want. Sometimes even before it's out in the stores!

wow...

[sxtxixtxcxh]

imagine getting credit for itunes music for torrenting itunes music... what fun.

Re:BitTorrent still has a better incentive scheme

[Geekboy(Wizard)]

Spaceballs: The Movie

Re:Nahhh

[Realistic_Dragon]

2. Legal downloads of Linux/BSD CD's.

Somehow I have never seen this as Job's first priority on the list of things to make easy in OS X.

Re:When one runs out of feline names!

[Ryan Amos]

I'm waiting for OS X "Cheetarah."

Rowr.

Re:When one runs out of feline names!

[Whiney Mac Fanboy]

I've seen the OS X roadmap - and just before they run out of names, they merge with Ubuntu for release 10.04 'plentiful pussy' (the most beautiful release) :-D

Re:When one runs out of feline names!

[XxtraLarGe]

What about OS X "Liger".

Re:When one runs out of feline names!

[Phat_Tony]

I've been referring to the next upcoming release as "American Shorthair" ever since 10.1.

Re:When one runs out of feline names!

[antibryce]

OS X "Masturbation Casualty" [wikipedia.org]

Re:When one runs out of feline names!

[ZachPruckowski]

Um, I'm gonna go with the perenially posted "OS 10.9.6 Liger" - Breed for its skills in stability and GUI magic.

Re:When one runs out of feline names!

[BorgCopyeditor]

What about OS X "Liger"?

It's pretty much my favorite operating system.

Re:BitTorrent still has a better incentive scheme

[LordOfTheNoobs]

... you get better information on macs from microsoft.com

So the Mac really does cause rectal bleeding for 94% of users? ( informal internet poll of one non-Mac user, margin of error +-94% )

The Day MOSR Becomes a Credible Source on /.

[alphasubzero949]

The day MOSR becomes a credible source on /. is when not only toasters fly but water flows uphill.

MacOS Rumors = Muhammed Saeed al-Sahaf

[penginkun]

I don't really know what else needs to be said. If the guy who runs MacOS rumors told me the sky is blue, I'd check. What's sad is he used to be reliable. Now he's just a washed up has-been who fabricates stories to drive traffic to his site. He's as reliable as Hussein's old minister of information, Muhammed Saeed al-Sahaf.

What I'd like to see...

[utexaspunk]

This may be a little OT, but I'd like to see Apple offer advertisements for download on the iTMS in exchange for store credit. They could make them interactive or something if they want to make sure you watch them. I don't mind commercials, I just mind that they interrupt whatever I'm trying to watch. I'd gladly sit and watch/interact with commercials for 20-30 min if it got me $2-3 to spend on commercial-free TV shows like Lost or The Colbert Report. There's a strange bit of psychology that makes me despise spending $2 out of my pocket for an episode of Lost but be fine with watching 20 minutes of commercials for it, even though my time is worth more than that.

I'm not trolling here. Flamebait? Maybe.

[CFD339]

If you consider asking a pointed question to be flame bait, then I suppose I'm guilty.

The truth is, if Microsoft enters a niche currently served by freeware/shareware/open source, the assumption is that it is the evil empire out to squash all the little perfect peace-loving Linux and OSX people.

Frankly, I just want to see the same scrutiny applied universally.

Look for a second at Apple. The only reason they're not Microsoft is that they didn't do it well enough 20 years ago. The failed, they didn't "take the high road". Apple is pushed DRM down our throats more successfully than Microsoft. They also found a way to make downloading music workable for the record companies and for most of the customer base (at least for now). Apple's proprietary hardware and planned obsolecense has made upgrading their equipment nearly impossible for decades.

Hell, I had a ][+, a IIe, and a //c, a Mac SE, and own an eMac G4. I'm not anti-Apple. I had to be dragged kicking and screaming from my Apple machines to that damn Mitsubishi built "Leading Edge" clone (the first one, not the Tandy 1000 clone they made later). Today, I have several Linux boxes -- and prefer them for server work hands down, but for workstation work, XP does what I need it to do.

If Apple builds a BT client into the OS and declares it "Part of the Operating System" because it uses that to obtain its patches, how is that different from Microsoft doing it with IE?