saw this review posted on slashdot of FC2

[Stan Bubrouski]

On Thu, 2004-05-20 at 20:04, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> Although I've been aware of bittorrent for quite some time, only recently 
> have I actually installed it, and I had no idea how useful it is.
> 
> It's biggest drawback -- and probably why it's not even more popular than it 
> is right now -- is it's sloppy installation and packaging, and its miniscule 
> documentation.
> 

While BT is itself opensource there are a number of superior opensource
alternatives.  I myself am very happy with azureus http://azureus.sf.net

-sb