BitTorrent Inc. Acquires µTorrent

Iria · Dec 7, 2006, 10:30 PM

Source: Wired News
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BitTorrent, Inc., will announce later today that it has acquired µTorrent, a lightweight and efficient implementation of the BitTorrent protocol. The official announcement will come this afternoon, but there are already some posts from Bram Cohen, CEO and Co-Founder of BitTorrent, in the µTorrent Forums.

Sourabh · Dec 8, 2006, 12:06 AM

this sucks!

josh2thad · Dec 8, 2006, 12:12 AM

Thats shit, Azureus I'm comin' back again! Utorrent was a more efficent client a few months back anyways, most people dont notice how resouce heavy it has gotten recently. Eating ram like its starving, i remeber back in the 1.1 days it use 3-4 MB...Maybe its my system but its been using 30- 40 MB using the 1.6 Client.

GutterPunk · Dec 8, 2006, 12:13 AM

I think itll be a good move for them. As utorrent imo hasn't been as efficient as before maybe they will implement a supertorrent

why does that suck?

josh2thad · Dec 8, 2006, 12:18 AM

Just because of the simple fact that they have ties with hollywood, and they were fine how they were, now they are merging and it just sucks!

>GSXR<mrbusa · Dec 8, 2006, 12:48 AM

These guys are getting tired of the pressure and lawsuits and are getting while the getting is good. Everybody has a price. They know like we do that the way things are going file sharing as we know it now will be dead real soon. I am a try before I buy type of person and soon I will be a, I can't try I won't buy type of guy. The minute the entertainment industry started spending way more time, money, and marketing a product than they did producing it is when I decided not to care.

There is nothing but bad that can come from this merger. Simple as that.....

Matth · Dec 8, 2006, 03:50 PM

Utorrent forum thread on subject is mostly negative.
http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?id=17278

Having read and distilled a few other forums, I think I agree with one point.

In the preparation of some form of officially sanctioned, paid for and protected download service (the Bram Cohen/MPAA connection), the open source nature of the "Bittorrent reference client" is an embarrassment, with elements of the applicable open source licences limiting the ability to close it.

uTorrent has NEVER been open, so acquring uTorrent gives a basis for embedding secret features. Remember, uTorrent also shrank some time ago by using UPX or other code compression (which also aids secrecy).

>GSXR<mrbusa · Dec 8, 2006, 04:16 PM

This has probably been in the works for awhile. The community knew there was something up because there were regular updates almost weekly and then there was no updates at all for quite some time. I'm going to try Azureus for awhile and see where this goes. I hate Java based apps but it seems to be the most stable and the fastest of the remaining torrent clients.

Dec 7, 2006, 10:30 PM	#1
Iria DriverHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Posts: 7,275 Rep Power: 89	BitTorrent Inc. Acquires µTorrent Source: Wired News ________ BitTorrent, Inc., will announce later today that it has acquired µTorrent, a lightweight and efficient implementation of the BitTorrent protocol. The official announcement will come this afternoon, but there are already some posts from Bram Cohen, CEO and Co-Founder of BitTorrent, in the µTorrent Forums.

Dec 8, 2006, 12:06 AM	#2
Sourabh DriverHeaven Junior Member Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: India Posts: 55 Rep Power: 0	this sucks! __________________ Everybody lies

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GutterPunk I = Greatest Dood Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Nebraska Posts: 5,949 Rep Power: 71	I think itll be a good move for them. As utorrent imo hasn't been as efficient as before maybe they will implement a supertorrent why does that suck? __________________ Rock On \m/ Thank you Mousey for the Sig! --------------- Intel Core2Duo E6660 (3.4GHZ) ~ Tuniq Tower 120 ~ Enermax Galaxy 1000W ~ Corsair Dominator @ 1090MHZ 5-5-5-15 (OCZ XTC Modded Cooler)~ EVGA 8800GTX W/ HR-03 Plus 120MM ~ Asus DVD-RW LiteScribe ~ LG DVD-RW ~ Corsair Voyager 2GB ReadyBoost Drive ~ Vantec Nexus Fan Controller ~ ThermalTake Armor 25CM fan ~ Personal Finance Blog: Dent Your Debt

Dec 8, 2006, 03:50 PM	#7
Matth Flash Banner Hater Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: UK Posts: 3,426 Rep Power: 93 System Specs	Utorrent forum thread on subject is mostly negative. http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?id=17278 Having read and distilled a few other forums, I think I agree with one point. In the preparation of some form of officially sanctioned, paid for and protected download service (the Bram Cohen/MPAA connection), the open source nature of the "Bittorrent reference client" is an embarrassment, with elements of the applicable open source licences limiting the ability to close it. uTorrent has NEVER been open, so acquring uTorrent gives a basis for embedding secret features. Remember, uTorrent also shrank some time ago by using UPX or other code compression (which also aids secrecy). __________________ Mary had a little lamb, Her father shot it dead Now Mary takes her lamb to school, Between two crusts of bread Last edited by Matth; Dec 8, 2006 at 04:29 PM.

Dec 8, 2006, 12:12 AM	#3
josh2thad DriverHeaven Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2006 Posts: 431 Rep Power: 0	Thats shit, Azureus I'm comin' back again! Utorrent was a more efficent client a few months back anyways, most people dont notice how resouce heavy it has gotten recently. Eating ram like its starving, i remeber back in the 1.1 days it use 3-4 MB...Maybe its my system but its been using 30- 40 MB using the 1.6 Client.

Dec 8, 2006, 12:18 AM	#5
josh2thad DriverHeaven Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2006 Posts: 431 Rep Power: 0	Just because of the simple fact that they have ties with hollywood, and they were fine how they were, now they are merging and it just sucks!

Dec 8, 2006, 12:48 AM	#6
>GSXR<mrbusa im a FREAK Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Portland, OR Posts: 2,107 Rep Power: 0 System Specs	These guys are getting tired of the pressure and lawsuits and are getting while the getting is good. Everybody has a price. They know like we do that the way things are going file sharing as we know it now will be dead real soon. I am a try before I buy type of person and soon I will be a, I can't try I won't buy type of guy. The minute the entertainment industry started spending way more time, money, and marketing a product than they did producing it is when I decided not to care. There is nothing but bad that can come from this merger. Simple as that.....

Dec 8, 2006, 04:16 PM	#8
>GSXR<mrbusa im a FREAK Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Portland, OR Posts: 2,107 Rep Power: 0 System Specs	This has probably been in the works for awhile. The community knew there was something up because there were regular updates almost weekly and then there was no updates at all for quite some time. I'm going to try Azureus for awhile and see where this goes. I hate Java based apps but it seems to be the most stable and the fastest of the remaining torrent clients.