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Tribler is a BitTorrent client that attempts to combine the social aspects of online communities with the traditional components of the torrent app. Tribler uses an Amazon-style recommendations engine to offer suggestions and also allows users to get recommendations from trusted friends.
[Tribler][1] is the first torrent client I've seen that attempts to take torrent searching beyond the basic search engine model and in some respects reminds me of old school P2P apps like Napster or even Limewire, but with a web 2.0 like twist.
The social aspects of Tribler won't appeal to everyone, but for those who find the task of searching and finding torrent files daunting, Tribler does indeed make it easier to find what you want.
Tribler also aggregates content from sources most torrent clients don't, like YouTube videos and, according the Holland-based company behind Tribler, the app will include more content from other web sources in the future.
Some people might worry about a torrent client that tracks what they download and uses that information to make suggestions, but according to the normally quite paranoid folks at [TorrentFreak][2], Tribler "is the first P2P system which has merged online friends and a sense of community without using any central server."
In other words there is no central repository of data for the RIAA to subpoena. Of course, from what I could tell, Tribler doesn't seem to support encryption which is too bad.
Tribler is available for Mac, Windows and Linux.
Tribler is nice, though a bit bulky. The Mac OS X version I tested weighed in at a hefty 257 MBs and even without any running downloads it grabbed nearly a 100 MBs of RAM.
If you're looking for a more social way to find torrents, or you just miss the community aspects of the old style P2P networks, you'll probably enjoy Tribler.
[via [TorrentFreak][2]]
[1]: https://www.tribler.org/ "Tribler"
[2]: http://torrentfreak.com/tribler-a-next-generation-bittorrent-client/ "Tribler: A Next Generation BitTorrent Client?"
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