Install headless bittorrent client

apt-get source bittornado 

I set up aliases to btdownloadcurses.py and btdownloadmany.py

btdownloadcurses --max_uploads 4 --max_upload_rate 32 to_be_downloaded.torrent

 
btdownloadmany --max_uploads 4 --max_upload_rate 32 .

where . is a directory full of torrent files.