uTorrent developer Signs deal with Peerfactor

Written by Ernesto on March 04, 2006 

PeerFactor and the uTorrent developer Ludvig Strigeus signed a six months experimental agreement. Their goal is to develop “new content distribution applications on the Web”. This is interesting because Peerfactor is known for their Peer-against-Peer and other anti-piracy work.

Last year Peerfactor caused quite some controversy in France when their anti-p2p project was launched. Their idea: pay P2P users to distribute fakes that redirect downloaders to legal web sites.

There are not much details on the current project but it doesn’t seem to be related to Peerfactor’s anti-piracy projects.

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9 Responses

1 Mar 04, 2006 at 21:07 by MapleSyrup

Incoming µTorrent Stings!

2 Mar 05, 2006 at 00:35 by Malaysian

Oh noes ! is this a conspiracy?

3 Mar 05, 2006 at 13:27 by Paranoid

I’ve been wary of µTorrent ever since it came on the scene, something about it just doesn’t seem right.Like that time when their homepage redirected you to the FBI website, or the fact that I get masses of Peerguardian hits from China when I fire it up, its pentagon shaped logo, or its suspiciously well designed website. This for me just adds fuel to the fire.

4 Mar 05, 2006 at 16:08 by ignorantcow

“its suspiciously well designed website”
I’ll take that as a compliment :)

Do read the comments posted on Slyck before you jump to any conclusions, thanks.

5 Mar 12, 2006 at 21:21 by Jeff

Slyck create a new article about PeerFactor, utorrent and bitorrent :
http://www.slyck.com/news.php?story=1119

6 May 10, 2007 at 12:30 by sesso fkqy

feverish anxiety of fame and the last we shall ever hear of them
chat sesso amore*
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8 Jul 11, 2008 at 01:57 by Russ

i use utorrent - but the thing that catches me is that its such a good torrent program - there has to be a catch to this - i dont bother upgrading since it does fine already i stick to 1.6

9 Jul 11, 2008 at 02:08 by Lion

i dont think utorrent could be anything related to antipiracy… or atleast you cant get into trouble from it if it is.. wouldnt it be like entrapment.. or aiding and abedding a criminal?

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