There has been a lot of controversy about the recent acquisition of uTorrent by Bram Cohen, the creator of the Bittorent protocol. Most users seem to be disturbed about the partnership between Bittorrent and the MPAA which started in fall 2005 with the agreement that illegal searches would be removed from its own Bittorrent search engine. The fear that the cooperation will affect the development of the popular uTorrent client seems to grow with every passing day.
“Following the acquisition, patented content delivery innovations made by BitTorrent, Inc. will be integrated in the µTorrent client in a manner that will remain seamless to the community of users. Ultimately, the integration of best-of-breed BitTorrent technology will result in an improved client and an enhanced user experience. It will also accelerate BitTorrent’s plans to provide high-performance content delivery services that power websites seeking the most efficient platform for distributing large, high-quality files. Lastly, the incorporation of µTorrent’s lightweight codebase strengthens the adoption of BitTorrent technology in embedded systems, including televisions, mobile phones and other non-PC platforms.”
Utorrent on the other hand does not seem to be the only bittorent client which seems to be affliated with the content industry. There are at least rumors that Azureus was sending stats of your sessions over the network as well. And finally a photo appeared on Flickr that shows the author of Bitcomet and Aswhin Navin of Bittorrent.
Alternatives:
Some users prefer to switch clients based on those rumors which is totally understandable. But which clients can be used except the most popular ones ? Here is a list of alternatives.
- ABC (Open source)
- BitBuddy (freeware)
- BitSpirit (down atm)
- BitTornado (Open Source, one torrent per window)
- gTorrent (Open Source, Linux)
- Halite (still in early development, Open Source)
- XBT (Open Source)
It will be hard for every client in that list and possible future clients to come close to the excellent functionality and performance of uTorrent.
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Re: Azureus – I doubt that there would be something fishy going on in there. It’s an open source client, so anyone can see the source. It would be blatantly obvious, and easy to figure out exactly what data is sent and when.
The article you linked to shows absolutely no proof for their claims – just unsubstantiated accusations. I don’t think there is any reason for concern regarding Azureus. I think that dude is simply fishing for diggs.
I agree that the claims are not backed up with sources but it should at least make you think about it. Here are some additional sources for Azureus:
http://www.bvcapital.com/portfolio/show/azureus
http://www.slyck.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=341913
I think best program ever was uTorrent 1.3 without all that useless stuff and limits.
Anyway, on my dedicated server I use TorrentFlux – it’s torrent with web-interface and user management system. Very easy and convinient to use.
One way of handling with the new situation would be to turn of automatic updates in uTorrent to make sure it does not update itself automatically with “problematic features”.
anyone has a link to a previous version of utorrent dating back from like 2 weeks ago or more
so i can revert to an older version..
http://oldversion.com/program.php?n=utorrent
Even if you use older version of utorent, that won’t save you from being blocked from the network by peer guardian and other torrent clients… and I can see it coming soon…. http://phoenixlabs.org/2006/03/07/the-µtorrent-fiasco/
Arctic works good too..though no DHT support. It’s made by the guy who made PeerGuardian ;)
I never knew there was this issue… will continue following this thread.
Artic v1.2.3 seems to have VERY VERY low footprint and do what I need to do, although its featureless compared to utorrent, bitcomet, azureus etc.
P.S. Even if its about ~700kb(the executable file) which is more than utorrent it uses less memory and cpu than the utorrent in the same load!! Try it, just to test it.