BitComet Reaches Milestone with v1.00
Written by Ernesto on April 08, 2008Almost five years after the initial release went public, BitComet v1.00 has arrived. BitComet has come a long way, and despite its (unfounded) image as the BitTorrent bully, it remains popular among BitTorrent users.
The first version of BitComet was released on August 6 2003. Now, nearly five years later, v1.00 of the client has finally gone public.
BitComet used to be the most used BitTorrent client, but its popularity has decreased over the years, and it is now in fourth place after uTorrent, BitTorrent mainline and Azureus. The decline in popularity is, among other things, due to the negative press BitComet has received over the years.
It all started in 2005 when BitComet was banned from several private BitTorrent trackers for ignoring the “private flag”. Even though this issue was resolved relatively quickly, the image of BitComet was permanently damaged.
In the years to come, more and more horror stories popped up, from spreading junk data, to disobeying BitTorrent rules. Last year, BitTornado developer Shad0w even went as far as banning all BitComet users, because the client allegedly exploited super-seeds.
Last year however, Robb Topolski, a networking and protocol expert with more than 25 years of experience researched most of the claims against BitComet. He concluded that the client was not best suited for initial seeding tasks but at the same time refuted all other claims.
“BitComet is a worthy download client, providing some advantageous features not found in any other current BitTorrent client. Some of these features are confusing and are poorly implemented, but they are not detrimental to a BitTorrent swarm, nor do they take unfair advantage,” Topolski wrote.
“None of the typical accusations against BitComet, those that are provided as reasons for trackers or users to “Ban BitComet,” have held true. It is my professional opinion that the bans of BitComet are based on misunderstandings and falsehoods, and not on good data,” he added.
People should of course decide for themselves what they think of BitComet, but one thing is hard to deny. The client has turned into one of the most feature rich clients, currently available in 43 languages, which still has a great appeal to beginning and intermediate BitTorrent users.
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The research was a good idea, but once people have a bias it’s hard to make them let go. Just as newspapers “never let facts get in the way of a good story”, people never let facts get in the way of their own preconceived notions.
As I almost exclusively use public trackers anyway, I might get BC1.00 - I like features.
Gonna stick with uTorrent, thangyewvairymush…
Doesn’t this client pad the torrent files it creates too? That’s enough reason to not use it.
I used to use bitcomet alot, its a good client but now I use utorrent because its lightweight and thats the programs I like.
It does its job without slowing me down.. just like your mom.
I don’t know, your mom speeds me up Rycon. Anyway, I think Bitcomet is nice for tv shows since it provides an easy to use access to previews. And it has an interesting comment section. The interface is ‘cluttery’, but seems to use less resources then Azureus. I use Bittcomet and utorrent. Utorrent for large dl’s and bitcomet for tv and small movies. Utorrent is better at initial seeding and has a more desciptive and uncluttered enviroment. In the end I would recommend bittcomet to a new bittorent user. That’s probably the reason for it loosing popularity. People just grew out of it. They just like the sleekness of utorrent.
Bitcomet ban will be forever in my Azureus, they fuck up with my superseeding. + usualy bitcomets don’t upload to others and don’t seed
Bittorrent just cheats and breaks the swarm; there is no two ways about it. More damage has been done by bittorrent by its intial/superseeds , its recursive lack of uploading and padding than all the anti-privacy companies put together.
^ lol i mean bitcomet. Where is the ability to edit comments? And why am I always posting comments too quickly, even on my previous one that was my first???
I remember BitComet… And how long it took for a new version to come out. I always wonder about that cause you could download like twenty different betas, which all was higher than the “current” version.
And the fact that their website was slow.
i’ve been using bitcomet v0.60 since it came out and im still using it i think its one of the best clients there and don’t care what any1 says - bitcomet rules.
i stopped using bitcomet since they started adding annoying ads, and bitcomet just crashes all the time.
BitComet is still shitty…
µTorrent > all!
thanks to bitcomet we having junk data in torrent. padding files - fuck u bitcomet
I used to use BitComet before uTorrent some time ago and always thought it was a good client.
These days though I’m starting to reach the point I don’t trust uTorrent / BitTorrent(tm)(c)(ltd)(wtf) to have only honest interests in mind. I can see what I perceive to be interests in money and status shaping motivations, and am not keen on some of the attitudes I’ve seen expressed by some in, for instance, the uTorrent forums. This new Vuze thing by Azureus has me wondering too though I don’t know enough about it. All I can say about Azureus is that in a recent attempt to find a decent alternative to uTorrent, Azureus ‘Vuze’ isn’t it, as it’s just bloated, having a ton of crap I don’t need or want, and looks to consume mad system resources for something that should just transfer data with a few nifty features.
So what’s left? Maybe I should give BitComet a try again? Shame it’s not open-source… and it’s a shame there doesn’t seem to be any decent open-source clients out there. Why is that?
Could BitComet help make a bad situation better, or is it just another closed-doors application looking to pucker-up and cash in when the time is right?
/soapbox
;p
bit comet is still junk comet for me
Yea that’s it #10, bitcomet rules, bush and putin are good people, global warming doest not exist, go you!
Retard.
[quote comment="336635"]Doesn’t this client pad the torrent files it creates too? That’s enough reason to not use it.[/quote]
Doesn’t this global warming intrude into my private affairs too much? That’s enough reason to not believe it.
[quote comment="336968"]Yea that’s it #10, bitcomet rules, bush and putin are good people, global warming doest not exist, go you!
Retard.[/quote]
im sorry im neither from usa or russia nor do i think they’re good i just like the client do u have a problem with that? - i don’t care
[quote comment="336968"]Yea that’s it #10, bitcomet rules, bush and putin are good people, global warming doest not exist, go you!
Retard.[/quote]
im sorry im neither from usa or russia nor do i think they’re good i just like the client do u have a problem with that? - i don’t care
oh and yea global warming is a bunch of crap try doing some research, reading and you’ll know its not all true what they’re saying
I think the rumors about Bitcomet are exaggerated. I don’t see why it should be banned. But while I don’t mind others using it, I will never switch to Bitcomet. I tried it out once, and it felt like a bit of a resource hog. Not to mention, the interface wasn’t as clean or straightforward as some other clients I have used. I recommend most people use utorrent unless they have some special need for another client.
The padding files could be a good idea, they just should have told people about the idea before they made them. It would have been easy enough for other clients to ignore them properly then.
BitComet is BANNED on many private trackers since you can cheat using this crap piece of software.
uTorrent all the way!!!
µTorrent RULZZZZZ!
BitComet sucks…its not allowed on my private website. Also it fcuks up basic torrenting principle by screwing around with the torrent files.
DIE BitComet DIE !!!
>>22
Please explain instead of making purely baseless comments.
[quote comment="337407"]>>22
Please explain instead of making purely baseless comments.[/quote]
amen. i’m not learning much from this discussion, other than al gore’s movie needs to be downloaded by the rest of the world.
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