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BitTorrent Inc. acquires uTorrent
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article published on 7 December, 2006
Bram Cohen of BitTorrent Inc. has announced that the company has acquired the increasingly popular ”Torrent client. The announcement was made on ”Torrent's official site by Bram and Ludvig (Ludde) Strigeus, the writer of ”Torrent.
Together, we are pleased to announce that BitTorrent, Inc. and ”Torrent AB have decided to join forces. BitTorrent has acquired ”Torrent as it recognized the ... [ read the full article ]
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7. December 2006 @ 10:56 |
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Well if bitorrent is going to aquire utorrent and wants to become legit does that mean its going to be like napster or itunes for that matter where its going to cost us. If so i prefer to go to the shop and get it myself.
I just hope they become stronger united not the other way around. As they say watch this space. :)
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GrayArea
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7. December 2006 @ 13:31 |
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Buh By ”Torrent... We'll miss yah.
Azureus next?
If you can't beat your competition, buy them and bury them. Simple. Legal. Unethical. Right up Hollwood's a..
alley...
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SGSeries2
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7. December 2006 @ 13:40 |
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I'm not so sure what to think about this bit. I was never too keen on the original bittorrent client, especially considering what's been going on behind the scenes. Clearly, if they're going to be focusing more on other platforms while trying to maintain the original codebase with the same developers, productivity on the original codebase may start to slow, if hasn't shown slow-down already. Besides, it's already pretty useful for other platforms as it is with its remote access.
Was there ever any word about ”Torrent going open source? I guess that's not a possibility now,
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silver95
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7. December 2006 @ 16:11 |
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So.. I take it this means they'll be phasing out the tracker search bar and ripping out the encryption, since Bram has stated his opinions about both topics.
Guess a new, lightweight torrent client with all those features will have to pop up soon. Too bad Azureus is such a memory hog and likes to trip systems with bad routers.
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gogochar
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7. December 2006 @ 16:59 |
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Sniff... sniff... I'll miss you ”Torrent. You were good while you lasted.
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The_Fiend
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7. December 2006 @ 17:18 |
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So, first Azureus goes bonkers, now ”torrent gets bought by the MPAA's monkeyboy Cohen...
Which one's next ?
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7. December 2006 @ 20:07 |
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Wow thats a death nail to UT no wonder there have been no updates to it and here I was hoping for better bandwidth scheduler than by the hour...
Oh well its not like they can kill the current version any chance a "clone" of UT will come out?
When will the media mafia learn stop free shearing of information is pointless.
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7. December 2006 @ 21:07 |
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What the heck? So much for uTorrent, oh well at least you can keep the awesome older versions for quite a while.
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If you can't beat your competition, buy them and bury them. Simple. Legal. Unethical. Right up Hollwood's a..
Actually, its in a legal gray area to buy out your competition. But I guess that might depend on who you are talking to.
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7. December 2006 @ 21:13 |
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Pop_Smith
hostile take over aside,giving up and selling out might be evil if you are NOT the person selling out but its clearly legal,hostile take overs and selling out over threats are another thing...mmmmm
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7. December 2006 @ 21:39 |
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utorrent has always sucked remember the scandal a couple months back, LOL to all the backers silly kikds tricks are for kids. Buy a better computer if your low on resources.
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7. December 2006 @ 21:46 |
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plutonash
*rollseyes*
then buy all your media instead of downloading it....yeesh....Utorrent is a good BTC no better than worse than Azureus,they both are good programs with slight diffrances.
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tnarulz
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8. December 2006 @ 02:14 |
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Now that utorrent is going to (probably) go legit, which client will take it's place? Azureus has announced something to the effect a while ago that it will go at least partially legit.
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ripfuel
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8. December 2006 @ 05:23 |
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You can bet your sweet a$$ that the MPAA is behind this more than any of us will ever know. I never liked utorrent anyway.
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8. December 2006 @ 12:26 |
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Maybe Azuerus will make a client similar to Utorrent since it know that most people will probubley switch now. Like maybe make a "Java-Less" client and not as much features that crush your resources. Id go for that.
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8. December 2006 @ 13:28 |
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Bringing together ”Torrent's efficient implementation and compelling UI with BitTorrent's expertise in networking protocols will significantly benefit the community with what we envision will be the best BitTorrent client.
Aside from releasing the original BT client, basically a proof of concept which sucked, what "expertise" has the original developer really offered or contributed to the BT community?
I still use utorrent 1.5 and probably will unless something better comes along. With most BT clients being written in "clunky" lanugages (java, python, etc), having a one that is well-written in a real language like C++ or delphi would serve us all much better...and I think that utorrent is a good example of a well-written BT client.
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8. December 2006 @ 13:40 |
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ZippyG
""basically a proof of concept which sucked, ""
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The concept of BT has almsot revolutionized the net,the corperations even see its power and are trying haphazardly to jump in on it without understanding WTF they are ding.
Bram whats to try and bing about legit shearing while a noble goal a pointless one,without the corperate hive being one mind they will never heavily effect the net you can not stop stop the free flow of information because if they do stop the free shareing of files speech will be next because it upsets the corperate way...
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8. December 2006 @ 14:09 |
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weak sauce
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ZippyG
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8. December 2006 @ 21:11 |
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BT wasn't revolutionary, it was a twist on existing file sharing tech...more of an evolution than anything else. The original BT client release by bram was certainly not a piece of software I'd use to sell someone on BT. It was slow, has trouble with firewalls, not really user-friendly either. Proof of concept is what it was...it set the stage for more innovative developers to improve the tech, and now we have things like DHT which are bringing BT back to its roots by eliminating the need for a centralized tracker.
BT didn't get popular by promoting "legit" usage anyway. Neither did Youtube or most of the other services out there.
Think about it, what did Bram really do besides release the original and crappy BT client? Was he behind the most popular and function BT clients out there? Did he create DHT and implement it? Did he create magnet links so people could download without seeds? No, and in fact after releasing the original client he just got sued and finally started bittorrent.com as some lame attempt to make it seem like BT's popularity is something other than distribution of games, movies and software.
Now I'm not saying anything against BT in general, I use it all the time, but let's be honest here. The only reason anyone even knows who Bram is, is due to sites like Mininova and Pirate Bay - end of story.
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8. December 2006 @ 21:21 |
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ZippyG
Started it and created it but he did not perfect it,others did that.
the only thing is is doing is living off the name and the hopes the corperations have need of him.
sh!t my printer finally died >> aaahhhhh sh!t <<
Office jet G85 800$ bucks from 10ish years ago....damnit I do not want to spend 60$ in a new printer...
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9. December 2006 @ 10:46 |
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9. December 2006 @ 11:04 |
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It's news articles like this that get the good software removed or banned. It clearly states that the use of it is for piracy. Heck, I use the software myself. But, it's the advertisement of such software via news articles like the one above that gets out to the hungry media, which brings in the big dogs to bury yet another good bone. "No news is good news" as they say.
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tkw1368
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11. December 2006 @ 05:16 |
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well all you savy techs are quite amazing but what about all us non tech who quite dont really understand all the behind the tech stuff and just wanna get a cool program once and a while??????????any advice men!!!!!!!!!!
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11. December 2006 @ 06:54 |
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ashwin18
Btorrent will work
Bitch torrent
1.Your my bitch now dog(media mafia to suer)
2.Users will bitch about the lack of features and and big brother groping them.
tkw1368
nothing wrogn with Utorrent its still currently the best of the the simple BTC's,Azuzerus has a ton more features but dose want a bit mroe CPU and ramm,if you jsut want siple and small and dont want to go Utorrent bit comment or ABC will do.
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lbbz
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11. December 2006 @ 08:38 |
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@plutonash
"Buy a better computer if your low on resources"
Asinine. Are you perchance a MS employee?
@ZIppyDSM
"Utorrent is a good BTC no better than worse than Azureus,they both are good programs with slight diffrances"
"slight"? Azureus has more features than you could think of, but its resource needs can cripple its own performance on a fast (100Mbit for athlon 2800) network. ”Torrent has everything neeed, everything wanted, and nothing else. When working on a seperate HDD, I can still play NWN while my cables are melting from the amount of data going through them.
@ZippyG
"The only reason anyone even knows who Bram is, is due to sites like Mininova and Pirate Bay - end of story."
Yep. All he did was set a standard. If not for others (most notably, nicer clients) it would have died.
(sigh) I loved ”Torrent. Still do. One of the three reasons why I still cling to Wyndoze.
I'll try Deluge now.
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11. December 2006 @ 08:42 |
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lbbz
yes Azus has more but in all UT is smaller and more easy to handle,thats why like more.
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