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BitTorrent buys uTorrent
Whoa, didn't see this coming--but in hindsight, maybe I should have. BitTorrent, the company behind the peer-to-peer file-sharing protocol of the same name, has purchased uTorrent (properly µTorrent, but I'm too lazy to type the mu), one of the very best BitTorrent clients for Windows. uTorrent is known for being full-featured but having a tiny executable size and memory footprint. In their announcement BitTorrent creator Bram Cohen and uTorrent creator Ludvig Strigeus say that BitTorrent "recognized the merits of µTorrent's exceptionally well-written codebase and robust user community" and that "Bringing together µTorrent'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." The announcement says that at first little will change for the uTorrent community, with the web site and forums remaining unchanged, but behind the scenes they "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."I'm hugely loyal to uTorrent and I wish Strigeus and the community the best. I'm very interested to see new developments with Strigeus at BitTorrent. I wonder what this means for BitTorrent's existing not-very-featureful client.
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Subscribe to commentsMikeDec 7th 2006 8:40PM
This sucks!
The TickDec 7th 2006 9:33PM
I hope they don't gradually bloat uTorrent and make it crapware. That would make a lot of people very unhappy. If that does happen, I'm almost certain someone will develop another client based on the uTorrent code and call it nuTorrent or something. The point is, they better watch where they're going with this.
AalaapDec 7th 2006 11:43PM
No! NO!
JYHASHDec 8th 2006 3:33AM
This is terrible! Couple this with the OTHER latest news release saying that BitTorrent is going "legit" and going to start having specific ways to make you pay for movies downloaded from sites (either via the torrent or coded directly into the client), and you've got yourself yet another problem with annoying DRM. If BitTorrent leaves it alone code wise, fine, but if this is going to start becoming another pay for play service (just at higher speeds), then I'm going back to Azureus.
ThwartedEffortsDec 8th 2006 6:11AM
Well, that's it for uTorrent then.
joaneDec 8th 2006 5:31AM
It's curtains, folks. It was fun while it lasted.
KeseyDec 8th 2006 11:17AM
It's funny how the opinions in the comments section are so off from the the opinion of the author of this article.
I'm with my fellow commenter's on this one. Jordan, wake up buddy. Part of what makes BitTorrent great is its lack of commercialization. In the future state of BitTorrent we'll have to worry about DRM and privacy far more than we do today. If I want a commercialized download tool, I'll use iTunes.
yazDec 9th 2006 4:01AM
Seem like the whole deal has a high suckiness potential.. :(