” Infected with Windows DRM? Ya I don’t like DRM either but you really could have used a more neutral description of what they are trying to do to preserve the content from being illegally traded.

This site is so biased you make Fox News look like journalists. Your not on a crusade for pirates rights and accept the fact that companies would like to be paid for their products/services.”
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Infected with DRM is calling it EXACTLY what it is. Cheers to TorrentFreak for calling a spade a spade. Anyone that pays even a penny for DRM INFECTED media is just pissing their money away.

And I wouldn’t blame BT Inc. too much as they did try and convince the industry to allow DRM free media. They knew that with DRM attached, the project would most likely fail but the studios insisted. It’s not Bram and BT Inc. that don’t “get it”, it’s the industry suits who still desperately cling to an obsolete business model where they were always in control.

The Dan Glickman’s and Randy Saaf’s of the world can whisper promises in their ears all they want about how the industry will crush the free flow of media but it’s just not going to happen. Their time is past and the new emeging business model will be built with or without them. As each week passes they become less and less relevant to the issue.

Seriously – what have BT inc done to uTorrent that’s so bad?

Yup, Ludde’s a dick. A smart dick, but a dick none the less. He had to know that the crappy bittorrent coders were going to run his client into the ground.

He’s not coming back, btw. Nope. He’s enjoying his cash, I’m sure.

Ain’t that the truth.

..Lol i can only imagine that that japanese emotion is saying right now.

And let me clear one of the many misunderstanding in article.
BitTorrent Inc KNEW DRM WOULD BE A PROBLEM, but they couldnt it because the partners they where trading with OUT RIGHT DEMANDED THAT THEY USE DRM!

Yep BitTorrent Inc made a bad move and it cost them their work force, the failed avoid the very thing that fuels piracy to begin with the are the pesky Serial Numbers, ungodly long registration forms that just makes people say “f*k you idiots im out of here”

Unless BitTorrent can come close to rivaling Mininova they should get the hell out of the internet or learn from Veoh Inc.

Yes it also worries me that Utorrent may be discontinued because the company that is making them has sit a slump, i do not want to shift back to Vuze with all its bloatware.

Talk about reaping what you sow.

Does that mean if the article was “BitTorrent Hires 20% More Employees”, that uTorrent is a better client?

@37 – how does it make Bram evil? The current situation means that there’s at least one full time developer improving the client (rather than just relying solely on it being developed in someone’s free time). Why is that a bad thing?

To make money, Cohen would have had to patent his system and license it to others. Of course this would have greatly hindered its growth and acceptance. The media store thing is also a flawed concept, as we all know the media cartels don’t like to do business with technology people… just look at the bullshit that went on before iTunes launched videos! They also don’t like to do business with people who are indirectly responsible for the massive upsurge in copyrighted file sharing.

Buying out uTorrent, to me at least, was confirmation that Cohen was turning evil. uTorrent was a far better client than the official BitTorrent client. You don’t buy something that’s free, except in two scenarios: either you want to destroy it to avoid competition, or somewhere down the road you expect to turn it into a profitable item. Neither outcome is good for the users.

I knew this would bite him in the ass later, and now I’m proven at least partly right.

Also, Ludde is an equally big sellout too, offering up his splendid utorrent to be raped by these goons, so let’s hope he comes back to the free software crowd with an even more superior BT client when this poor excuse of a company dies.