Linux newsleecher/utorrent/CCCP equivalents?

I'd like to try out linux this summer, but before I jump in I'd like to know what linux users use to download from usenet/torrents, and what they use to play video.

I watch anime and foreign films, so soft sub support is important for me, and I watch shitty porn so support for wmv/other shitty windows codecs is also important.

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LOL.

Look, kids, when you don't know the answer to a question, don't bother with it. Nobody is going to think that you actually DO know what you're talking about even if you act like a haughty vet that's answered so many questions in his super brilliant lifetime that he can't be bothered with any more.

OP- compile mplayer yourself (there are guides to do so, even guides with animu in mind, google is your friend). Deluge sucks, and rtorrent/libtorrent are a bit outdated when compared to utorrent. If your computer can handle xchat, it can handle running utorrent through Wine just fine.

As for newsreaders, I wouldn't know, I don't use them.