picotorrent VS nut

While the torrent client included in the owntinfoil zip is open source, the two .exe's included are not, and he's actually violating the open source license for https://github.com/picotorrent/picotorrent

You can look the code of PicoTorrent, is a clean and small client (based on libtorrent too) : https://github.com/picotorrent/picotorrent

Love Transmission but went to picotorrent a few years ago, even smaller footprint https://github.com/picotorrent/picotorrent

I wish some of the other BT clients took off besides the big 3 (Qbt, Deluge, Transmission and I guess rtorrent+rutorrent as well). There are some other simple BT clients out there that mimic early uTorrent GUI, one of the most notable was Hadouken, which was headless. It had a web UI that's reminiscent of uTorrent 2.0.4. https://github.com/hadouken/hadouken Sadly the project seems dead, as the last official release was in 2015. There's another minimal torrent client named Picotorrent available for Windows https://github.com/picotorrent/picotorrent, but I am not sure how well this works on heavy libraries, and I doubt many private trackers allow it because it's so niche. Another client I used to use back in the day was Halite, but that also died in 2015.

Not really true - v0.20 of PicoTorrent [1] was released the same day as libtorrent released support for v2 torrents. I think this predates BiglyBT 2.5 with v2 [2] support with about two weeks.

[1] https://github.com/picotorrent/picotorrent/releases/tag/v0.2...

Picotorrent which I have never personally used but which I have heard good things about: https://github.com/picotorrent/picotorrent

A new windows client built on C++, picotorrent

Yep same, easy/quick install over USB: https://github.com/blawar/nut/releases

It isn't a piracy tool it is a service, they have to do security step to prevent bot making their server go to oblivion. If you want to bypass this you can simply download games via torrent and use either nut or Ownfoil.

The software used for USB installs is also fully open source (it's python) and you can actually skip using it since tinfoil also supports MTP installs: https://github.com/blawar/nut

You can use nut https://github.com/blawar/nut and follow the nut usb install section from rentry

I recommend using NUT with Tinfoil: https://github.com/blawar/nut It does it all and more pretty seamlessly and it’s what Tinfoil officially supports.

Think you can use NUT https://github.com/blawar/nut to host game files on a network and manually add a link in tinfoil to the NUT server.

I installed nut https://github.com/blawar/nut and added a couple of nsp games and they show up in the files list after a scan. I can even open up the server in chrome via http and it shows the games in the list.