BitTorrent has acquired µTorrent, another file-sharing application that uses BitTorrent's software protocol, it announced Thursday. The acquisition is another move by BitTorrent to make itself into a legitimate competitor in the online content business. Late last month, the company announced free and fee-based content distribution deals with a number of major Hollywood film and television studios, including News Corp.'s 20th Century Fox and Viacom's MTV Networks.
BitTorrent will incorporate µTorrent's optimization and other features into its own software as part of the acquisition, and add members of µTorrent's community to its own. The two have a combined user base of 135 million, BitTorrent said. It did not disclose financial terms of the deal.
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BitTorrent will incorporate µTorrent's optimization and other features into its own software as part of the acquisition, and add members of µTorrent's community to its own. The two have a combined user base of 135 million, BitTorrent said. It did not disclose financial terms of the deal.
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... and now breathing a sigh of relief: http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?id=17278
Last edited by Arcticflare on 08 Dec 2006 - 14:48
(or something like that.)
How long till it gets all bloated and becomes u(seless)Torrent?
Bittorrent is in no doubt very, very bloated.
Bittorrent also made deals with RIAA, MPAA to remove and block any seeds that RIAA/MPAA considers piracy.
/is sad µTorrent decided to sell out to the devil like Bittorrent.
In the future, if µTorrent development ever goes downhill, there's OldVersion.com.
Bram is in bed w/ the MPAA and is working on "legit" content delivery. Bram is concerned with one thing. Corporatization and money. I cant blame him for wanting to make a living off of someone he worked so hard on. Everyone wants to get paid at the end of the day. Still, I just wish it was another client besides utorrent. Maybe Lude finally wants his payday too.
I think all the DRM/Big Brother/US is gonna invade Canada conspiracy people need to get a grip, seriously.
My happy just decreased by 2 points.
It's been said they won't.
Well time will tell, but i'd be a liar if i said my reaction was anything other than
I hope it doesnt turn into bloatware... (keep a backup install of the actual client, noone knows!
Who will pick up the nextgen of Utorrent ?
uTorrent really made me get into torrents or I wouldn't get into them at all.
Oh it will, trust me, it will!
Same here!
Just keep using the clean version 1.6 and when neccessary, switch over to some other client.
To be precise, ludde didn't directly sell it to BitTorrent Inc. At the time beta 483 came out (and by extension 474 stable), ludde still owned all rights to the program. He sold his rights for a stake in a different company fairly recently, and that company then sold it to BitTorrent Inc (under which terms I do not know).
Hence, 483 is still "clean".
I'd also like to note that I don't work for BitTorrent Inc, nor did I gain anything from this. In fact, I'm not even sure I'm going to be an admin anymore (since I've apparently lost root access to the server)
from a bitmetv forum post.
Pooor ludde....
Last edited by -V3n0m555- on 09 Dec 2006 - 09:00
-will uTorrent be ported to Linux?
(ludde) probably
-how many lines of code is it comprised of?
(ludde) ~50-60K
-will encryption be removed?
(ludde) no
-features most important to you
(Bram) low memory footprint, code size, cpu usage
-is there any thoughts to an osx client?
(Bram) we plan to produce an up to date osx client, but that's significant porting work
-are there any features that will be removed from uTorrent?
(Bram) we're leaving the uTorrent client mostly alone for now, on the grounds that people like it (further defined 'mostly' as in, not much of anything substantive will change)
-will uTorrent be replacing the original python client?
(Bram) we aren't announcing integration plan details right now
-Bram, are you talking with asus and other router makers for putting uTorent in there?
(Bram) we're talking to lots of people
-will uTorrent ever be open-sourced?
(Bram) not in the forseeable future, but we'll continue to maintain an open source reference implementation
-Bram, you said before that you're not a big fan of protocol header encryption... do you still stand behind this?
(Bram) it isn't much harder for an isp to recognize encrypted headers than unencrypted headers.
-will content be monitored?
(Bram) absolutly not
-does the uTorrent codebase compile on linux today (in your labs?)
(ludde) No
-ludde can't develop anything new for uTorrent?
(ludde) bittorrent inc will do the majority of the development work
-what IDE was uTorrent developed on?
(ludde) Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 with a few routines written in visual cobol. uTorrent was written in C++ with some tiny chunks of assembly
-will uTorrent continue to be free?
(Bram) utorrent will continue to be available and continue to be free (as in, no cost, not open source)
-Utorrent uses a lot of Windows API's right? Won't that be a problem when porting to *nux/OSX
(ludde) Yes, the UI is tightly bound to Windows APis, however, the core backend is easier to port.
(Bram) the utorrent UI is windows native, so porting that part to osx or linux is a significant amount of work (but planned to be done at some point)
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