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BitTorrent Inc. Munches uTorrent

This is the worst thing that could happen. µTorrent was one of the very few applications that I actually liked and found it to be perfect for its intended purpose. No non-sense, just worked with minimum system resources. I found it to be the best torrent client out of the contemporaries on the Windows Platform.

Now I don’t really have any hope with the further development of utorrent to become any better. I won’t go ranting about how BT inc will screw utorrent up. A week back, BT inc. signed a deal with Paramount, Lionsgate, Twentieth Century Fox, MTV networks and Warner Bros. Home Entertainment to launch a paid torrent video store for people to pay and download these stuff. So this deal really means utorrent will go in a step forward to create built-in protection measures against illegal sharing of files. DRM! I don’t think there is anything worth on torrents exclusively except pirated movies, music, softwares, etc…

So, when things go awry with utorrent - BitComet would be the only option. I just can’t take this, because I loved utorrent. What next - Adobe buying FoxIt?

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6 Responses to “BitTorrent Inc. Munches uTorrent”

  1. shaka Says:
    December 8th, 2006 at 7:59 am

    I agree with you .
    “when things go awry with utorrent - BitComet would be the only option.”
    I think monopolization is a bad news.

  2. Atul varaskar Says:
    December 8th, 2006 at 11:28 am

    man i have a really bad feeling about this
    i see utorrent going down teh drain now :(

  3. anuj Says:
    December 8th, 2006 at 11:40 am

    irony.

    I had recently shifted to uTorrent from BitComet and kinda liked the interface plus it ate less resources as compared to BitComet. I guess it’ll be back to the ol’ BitComet now.

    Why did the BitTorrent guys have to screw this up?

  4. Sourabh Says:
    December 8th, 2006 at 4:36 pm

    Ludvig was the sole coder of utorrent. Now in BT inc he would just be a Technical Consultant and no longer work exclusively for utorrent. Since BitTorrent Inc. has signed a deal with these production houses to provide legal paid downloads of everything, considering utorrent is such a popular client, they would of course load it with some DRM stuff to prevent piracy or whatever. Why else would BitTorrent Inc. buy utorrent? utorrent had everything going for it until now. Backup your old setup of utorrent :)

  5. Atul Varaskar Says:
    December 9th, 2006 at 5:04 pm

    Yea unless they plan to block the older version :|

  6. Sourabh Says:
    December 9th, 2006 at 7:05 pm

    I don’t think ‘they’ will block old version but trackers can start banning utorrent when the worst thing actually happens. Makes me recollect the bit comet incident :P

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