uTorrent bought by bittorrent.com (1 Viewer)

[V]

Another BT client bites the dust


It looks as though BitTorrent is looking to further spread its wings now that it has received an infusion of cash from investors. In May of this year, BitTorrent first went legitimate by scoring a movie distribution deal with Warner Brothers. Later in July, the company landed another distribution deal with independent movie distributor Image Entertainment.

BitTorrent is now using part of its $20 million USD in financing to purchase the popular uTorrent BitTorrent application. uTorrent has been praised for its lightweight profile (170 kB application) and memory footprint (around 4 MB during typical usage). Bram Cohen and Ludvig Strigeus, the writers of the uTorrent application, had this to say about the acquisition:

What does this mean for the µTorrent community? Not much, at least not at first. The intention is to maintain the website as it is, and keep the forums and community active. Moving forward behind the scenes, we will continue to develop µTorrent and will be using the codebase in other applications, especially ones where a fast, lightweight implementation is more suitable, such as embedded systems on TVs, cell phones, and other non-PC platforms.

There was mixed reaction on the uTorrent forums with regards to the uTorrent-BitTorrent deal. "Absolute disgrace...Bit Torrent are now affiliated with the big players Warner Brothers for example, and they have signed an agreement to distribute digital content through the Bit Torrent client, what does this mean? basically that uTorrent will be that distribution client at some point in the future, and how long before we see adverts for movies within uTorrent," said antk1 on the uTorrent forums. Another user, doink-chan, was more gracious with regards to the announcement "As long as µTorrent keeps being a good program and doesn't become doinky, I have no problem with it."

For those that of you that are uTorrent fans, you might want to go ahead and grab the latest stable copy of the application before it is rolled up into BitTorrent's official client. You can also catch the FAQ regarding the acquisition here.

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i don't wanna use azureus!!

 

Buy on AliExpress.com

[gray]

This can only be bad...

Bram sold out

 

[V]

everyone is selling out... oh well, i have my 1.6 version and i'm keeping it.

 

[Boudz]

Azureus isnt that bad, who cares what client ur using, they all do the same thing

 

[gray]

Azureus isnt that bad, who cares what client ur using, they all do the same thing

yes, but some demand about 20 times more memory than the others, and don't have a sexy simple streamlined interface.

that's like saying that all search engines are the same... it's not just what happens under the hood that matters

 

[V]

Azureus isnt that bad, who cares what client ur using, they all do the same thing

what graham said.

 

[JCK]

I have become a fan of Azureus by the way, it really is better than the others.

 

[V]

azureues is just as good as utorrent. personally i haven't found anything azureus can do and utorrent can, and vice versa. but what makes all the difference, to me at least, is the system load. utorrent takes up as much memory as azureus' splashcreen logo. it is complettely unnoticeable when running, same cannot be said for azureus. though in today's computers, which have well over 1gb of ram usually, i guess that is not so much important anymore.

what can i say, i'm a sucker for programs that start up instantly, i don't like splash screens and loading bars.

 

[gray]

i don't like splash screens and loading bars.

if that's your main concern, just turn it off I don't believe it personally, but they do say that ignorance is bliss

 

[Nejc]

sometime ago I read something and it was about bitTorrent clients, and is says that microTorrent and BitComet are the best, other are worse because trackers bans them.

 

[Ramin]

..

I've been using BitComet for the past 3 years or so, have no complains..

 

[Martin]

This can only be bad...

Bram sold out

Did he? He's always maintained that he doesn't support downloading of licensed files, even though he created the protocol, and this partnership with the movie studios is no surprise at all to me.

 

[gray]

sometime ago I read something and it was about bitTorrent clients, and is says that microTorrent and BitComet are the best, other are worse because trackers bans them.

Name me a tracker that bans uTorrent.

Actually if I remember correctly I had to start using uTorrent because some of my favourite trackers banned BitComet

Did he? He's always maintained that he doesn't support downloading of licensed files, even though he created the protocol, and this partnership with the movie studios is no surprise at all to me.

Of course he didn't sell out in terms of the principles that he's always maintained, but naturally the few hundred million people using his baby the way it was always going to be used aren't very pleased. They're (we're ) just bitter, that's all.

 

[V]

sometime ago I read something and it was about bitTorrent clients, and is says that microTorrent and BitComet are the best, other are worse because trackers bans them.

actually bitcomet and bitlord are the "evil" ones. azureus and utorrent are the best clients and accepted on all private trackers, on the other hand bitcomet will get you banned on almost all private trackers because it cheats.

 

[Nejc]

actually bitcomet and bitlord are the "evil" ones. azureus and utorrent are the best clients and accepted on all private trackers, on the other hand bitcomet will get you banned on almost all private trackers because it cheats.

I have checked again and you are right, azureus and µTorrent are better than else, but µTorrent uses 10* less RAM

 

[gray]

good on you for being open-minded 19nejc91; you'd make a good Linux user

 

[Sheik Yerbouti]

azureues is just as good as utorrent. personally i haven't found anything azureus can do and utorrent can, and vice versa. but what makes all the difference, to me at least, is the system load. utorrent takes up as much memory as azureus' splashcreen logo. it is complettely unnoticeable when running, same cannot be said for azureus. though in today's computers, which have well over 1gb of ram usually, i guess that is not so much important anymore.

what can i say, i'm a sucker for programs that start up instantly, i don't like splash screens and loading bars.

um, i have 256mb RAM....so it IS important...it's as good as the program isnt running on my comp....i can easily run any memory hogging applications(or shud i say games) while uT is running and all of em run so smoothly!!!

 

[Nejc]

good on you for being open-minded 19nejc91; you'd make a good Linux user

That is because I am linux user

Not all time, but our school is so poor that can't afford window$, but at home I have to use that microsoft malware, cuz my father don't know anything about computer and he has just started g33king

 

[gray]

ahhh even better

 

[Chxta]

Azerus suckz!!!