What program to use for downloading .torrent files?

You're not supposed to be talking about this here. Just do a google search.

search download.com for "tomato torrent" thats what i use

I don't think there's anything implicitly wrong with discussing software recommendations unless:

1) The OP was asking where to get an illegal copy of like Photoshop or something

or

2) The OP included in his request something along the lines of "so I can download illegal copies of software, music etc. etc.

There are plenty of legitimate uses for torrent clients or P2P apps.

I use Transmission, myself.

You're not supposed to be talking about this here.
Just do a google search.

Excuse me?! I can't see anything wrong with talking about programs and people's opinions on them.

I personally use Tomato Torrent, as I like that fact that each torrent has it's own small window, unlike a single window view which takes up screen space.

Absolutely. There's nothing illegal about Torrent programs. Now I'm not saying they can't be used for illegal purposes but there's many legal uses as well. I get many Podcasts that way. It alleviates the bandwidth cost to the producers of said Podcast.

Anyway. I use Tomato too. It's simple and that's all I need. You might check this page at VersionTracker which list some of the Torrent programs available.

I use Transmission...basic, free and works great.

http://transmission.m0k.org/

Nothing wrong/illegal with using torrent programs par se.

The problem with transmission is that it is getting banned on many trackers now (see here http://osx.iusethis.com/app/transmission )

I use Azureus http://azureus.sourceforge.net/

I find it very odd that the only points you've chosen to award went to the one person in this thread who has provided incorrect information.

I find it very odd that the only points you've chosen
to award went to the one person in this thread who
has provided incorrect information.

don't be a point whore

Like another post said, Azureus is a great bittorrent tool and it is also universal binary (Intel).

Some people don't know what they are talking about. It is perfectly legal to use bittorrent to download legal music. It is not the software but rather what some bad apples (no pun intended) may do with it that unfortunately gives a bad rap to the rest of us who aren't breaking any laws.

I download lots of live music from bt.etree.org from bands that support the legal download of audience taped music like Gov't Mule, Derek Trucks Band, Phil Lesh and Friends, Grateful Dead, just to name a few. I have downloaded gigabytes of some of the the best live music from some of the best bands (showing my age here) using bittorrent.

Enjoy and yes it is perfectly legal.

etree is an excellent site

the tons of phish shows and other jamband shows ive gotten from that site

In that case, I use bit torrent. Don't know how it stacks up against the other torrent apps though.

Wow.... you completely misunderstand my post.
Read through the thread again, my friend. I haven't even replied to the post with an answer at all. Since I've provided no answer for the OP, I don't deserve points.
I'd rather see the users who do deserve points (such as yourself in this case) get them, as there were several people in this thread that helped the OP.

Not once in my nearly three years of posting here have I ever asked or insisted that anyone award me points. Feel free to review my posting history in its entirety if you'd like to see for yourself.