Comments on: Filesharing Report Shows Explosive Growth for uTorrent

By: Five Reasons There Is No Adwords for P2P Yet - GigaOM

Five Reasons There Is No Adwords for P2P Yet - GigaOM — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 19:12:39 +0000

[...] web sites. Limewire’s client is installed on 17 percent of all PCs in the U.S., according to Torrentfreak, and the company is planing to expand its market share with new social networking functionalities. [...]

By: Vuze 4: Combining legal, less legal BitTorrent networks | WinSoftNews

Vuze 4: Combining legal, less legal BitTorrent networks | WinSoftNews — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 15:29:10 +0000

[...] by these moves. Quite a few abandoned Vuze for clients like uTorrent and Transmission. Torrentfreak reported earlier this year that uTorrent is now installed on more than 13 percent of all PCs, whereas Vuze only has a market [...]

By: Vuze Takes A Gamble With New Client « NewTeeVee

Vuze Takes A Gamble With New Client « NewTeeVee — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 13:48:47 +0000

By: uTorrent le seul client bittorrent en progression

uTorrent le seul client bittorrent en progression — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 08:10:49 +0000

[...] Et ce qui est vraiment intÃ©ressant c’est que cette analyse du volume de recherche dans google est une trÃ¨s bonne image de la rÃ©alitÃ© comme le confirme cet article. [...]

By: LimeWire Music Store Adds 1.2 Million Tracks - Zwartbaard

LimeWire Music Store Adds 1.2 Million Tracks - Zwartbaard — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 07:05:29 +0000

[...] most used filesharing application, with a market share of approximately 35%. Their popularity is declining worldwide – mostly due to the BitTorrent boom – but roughly 18% of all PCs worldwide still has the [...]

By: » Blog Archive » LimeWire Music Store Adds 1.2 Million Tracks

» Blog Archive » LimeWire Music Store Adds 1.2 Million Tracks — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 22:09:03 +0000

By: LimeWire Music Store Adds 1.2 Million Tracks | TorrentFreak

LimeWire Music Store Adds 1.2 Million Tracks | TorrentFreak — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 17:21:55 +0000

By: uTorrent 1.8 Released | Student Tech News

uTorrent 1.8 Released | Student Tech News — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 10:24:05 +0000

[...] many BitTorrent users. In December we reported that the number of uTorrent users worldwide had more than doubled in a year. At the time, 5.1% of all Windows PCs had the BitTorrent client installed, and this [...]

By: uTorrent 1.8 Released | PaulSpoerry.com

uTorrent 1.8 Released | PaulSpoerry.com — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 09:13:46 +0000

By: uTorrent 1.8 Released, Mac Version Coming Soon - Zwartbaard

uTorrent 1.8 Released, Mac Version Coming Soon - Zwartbaard — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 08:08:31 +0000

By: lumin0sity

lumin0sity — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 11:13:46 +0000

Azureus has a lot of content added services which I don’t personally like.

Recently I switched to uTorrent so I can have a basic lightweight client that gets the job done: seed and download any software/music/movie I need.

Both Azureus and uTorrent are excellent bit torrent clients.

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By: Ghiveci de linkuri Â» hwpedia

Ghiveci de linkuri Â» hwpedia — Thu, 29 May 2008 01:21:36 +0000

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By: SCARFACE

SCARFACE — Wed, 28 May 2008 10:37:17 +0000

Free Download Manager is the best for downloading it can resume also with mirrors and it also can download torrents that’s very good but I mostly use uTorrent for torrents

By: acervatim

acervatim — Thu, 22 May 2008 22:57:24 +0000

I use “Free Download Manager” for torrents, and I find it faster than Utorrent or Azureus. Besides, it is able to accelerate http-ftp download. It is an all-in-one file trasfer application, and it is open-source.

By: Mininova's Traffic Doubles in a Year at IDTorrent Blog

Mininova's Traffic Doubles in a Year at IDTorrent Blog — Sun, 04 May 2008 07:50:20 +0000

[...] least sustain its current number of visitors. As BitTorrent and P2P in general become more and more accepted by the general public, new users will find their way to Mininova and other torrent search engines,” says Niek. [...]

By: uTorrent Marked as Trojan by Avast Antivirus at IDTorrent Blog

uTorrent Marked as Trojan by Avast Antivirus at IDTorrent Blog — Sun, 04 May 2008 06:33:19 +0000

[...] often happen with other harmless applications – better safe than sorry- but since uTorrent doubled its user base in just 12 months and is installed on millions of computers, this problem affected a sizable number [...]

By: Whatever Happened to Red Swoosh? « NewTeeVee

Whatever Happened to Red Swoosh? « NewTeeVee — Sat, 03 May 2008 02:01:30 +0000

[...] Inc. knows this and plans to leverage the huge and still growing popularity of uTorrent to power its BitTorrent DNA CDN. Pando became the most popular personal file-sharing service before [...]

By: Jayadev

Jayadev — Fri, 02 May 2008 01:40:48 +0000

I use deluge and its has lots of features..intuitive,things r where it should be, a removable feature-set..and lots of counter-counter-measures capability..
I have transmission installed as default in my GNU/Linux distribution..
but deluge is the best and very low foot print..

By: bazza barfoo

bazza barfoo — Thu, 01 May 2008 03:17:41 +0000

The report should read “p2p client stats for windows using morons (is there another kind?) with spyware installed (do windows machines without spyware exist?).”

To all the utorrent fanyboys who think they are uberleet because they aren’t “14 yr old girls running limewire” just remember there’s a whole world of leetness you haven’t even heard of yet.

By: foobar

foobar — Thu, 01 May 2008 03:05:47 +0000

You forgot to add “on windows” to the end of just about every sentence. As you know more and more people are using Linux (especially ubuntu) and macs and combined probably equal 10 to 15% of p2p clients.

Ktorrent FTW!

By: Synonymous with Anonymous

Synonymous with Anonymous — Thu, 01 May 2008 01:52:15 +0000

Î¼Torrent is fast because it is written in C++, precompiled for Windows; Azureus is slow because it has to run in a JIT compiler, being compiled in real-time on the JVM.

Azureus would do well to write a “lightweight” version; I guarantee they could compete with Î¼Torrent.

P.S. Just because you can use a torrent doesn’t make you leet… I bet you types are the same people who put windows and 20 lights in your computer and sign your forum posts with your gey computer specs lul lul lul

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 13:50:17 +0000

LimeWire has had support for BitTorrent for quite some time now. It certainly isn’t a great BitTorrent client but if you didn’t know that, you’ve been out-of-the-loop for quite some time and better STFU before someone notices your incompetence.

By: Zwartbaard.nl » Blog Archive » uTorrent Marked as Trojan by Avast Antivirus

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 12:12:05 +0000

By: WhoKnowsWhatMyNameIs

WhoKnowsWhatMyNameIs — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 05:29:12 +0000

Strangely, the number of DHT nodes reported by uTorrent went down quite hard recently. I usually saw ~318 nodes and now it is just ~170. Is there something going on? My feeling tells me there might be coming after uTorrent users.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 14:52:55 +0000

Azureus has always worked for me but limewire isn’t even bittorent.

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Tue, 29 Apr 2008 09:34:02 +0000

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By: coolius

coolius — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 05:32:19 +0000

If uTorrent is so much more popular than Azureus (which I use and much prefer), then why when I look at the clients used by the peers I am connected to, most of them are using Azureus?

By: Quartz

Quartz — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 01:15:32 +0000

This is the thrid time recently I have read this flawed report, the real headiline should read [b]only those with problems on their machines or spyware had these applications installed[/b], thats the real headline that seems to have escaped Ernestos grasp.

A quick read of the reports metholodgy will confirm this.

By: ÂµTorrent mÃ¤rkt som Trojan i Avast | Kopit

ÂµTorrent mÃ¤rkt som Trojan i Avast | Kopit — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 21:14:51 +0000

[...] ÂµTorrent Ã¤r den stÃ¶rsta BitTorrent klienten sÃ¥ tog det inte lÃ¥ng innan Avast fick reda pÃ¥ det och kunde korrigera [...]

By: Trisket

Trisket — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 13:52:25 +0000

This debate is only going on because y’all winfolks can’t use Transmission. Seriously the best client ever.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 13:06:33 +0000

BitTorrent and TV sets are alike, they’re both for dumbfucks. Freedom will always mean less security. If you’re a dumbfuck, by all means, stay away from Gnutella (LimeWire) and use the safer BitTorrent. If the dumbfucks, who are mostly leeching bitches anyway, disappear from Gnutella, the spam and malware will disappear, too. If the same dumbfucks stopped using e-mail, e-mail spam would like-wise vanish. Too bad human rights get in the way of the ultimate anti-spam solution, you goddamn dumbfucks.

By: Mr. S

Mr. S — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 11:28:55 +0000

I have installed Utorrent, Limewire, Emule and Bearflix.

But only use emule rarely and Utorrent 24-7.

Undoubtly the best client ever.

By: Crescimento de uTorrent nÃ£o abala lideranÃ§a de Limewire | Remixtures

Crescimento de uTorrent nÃ£o abala lideranÃ§a de Limewire | Remixtures — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 11:10:29 +0000

[...] o fim-de-semana, o TorrentFreak publicou um artigo com dados recolhidos no final de Dezembro de 2007 que permitem obter uma [...]

By: ionut

ionut — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 11:04:49 +0000

the upward trend for utorrent will definitely continue as compared to limewire utorrent is very light on resources, and you definitely can do more with utorrent. torrents are some of the greatest things internet has to offer. limewire is great for downloading songs (not even whole albums) and maybe music videos. i haven’t been able to use it to download a movie, and i definitely don’t trust it enough to find me a virus-free program.

By: uTorrent Marked as Trojan by Avast Antivirus | TorrentFreak

uTorrent Marked as Trojan by Avast Antivirus | TorrentFreak — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 10:31:36 +0000

By: Julien

Julien — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 10:23:58 +0000

[quote comment="361676"]I personally use Deluge, although unstable in some parts[/quote]I tried Deluge but as you said it’s way too unstable! Under Ubuntu, my computer freezed or crashed many times because of it :-(
However, when Deluge will be stable I will definitely give it another try ;-)

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Posts to read today 4/28 | Infinite Fan Base — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 09:33:47 +0000

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By: bifter

bifter — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 09:08:03 +0000

MPAA etc can use Azureus (or most other BT client for that matter) to pursue file-sharers, using the logs that they create. If you’re living in the US and are smart you should use some kind of IP filter (e.g. PeerGuardian), though even this doesn’t mean you are 100% safe. Still if you get sued it’s a bit like “losing” the lottery if you know what I mean ;-)

Like some have pointed out, Limewire (or eMule etc) are good for finding rarities – I like fairly obscure reggae tunes and it’s difficult to find live torrents for that kind of stuff, the P2P clients are better tbh.

Usenet is much faster and safer than other methods anyway as you only download and are therefore not making anything available. It requires a little more investment of time and money to set up but, if you’ve never tried it before, you’ll be amazed! It spanks BT for download speeds!

By: andyness

andyness — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 06:03:30 +0000

[quote comment="361110"]… but only idiots install programs that call home and gather information.

Right?
[/quote]
Well, only idiots live in a country that makes it legal to sue people for file sharing.

Moron

By: Dekut.com

Dekut.com — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 02:57:52 +0000

Filesharing Report Shows Explosive Growth for uTorrent…

New data on the ever changing P2P landscape shows that the number of uTorrent users worldwide has more than doubled compared to last year. The BitTorrent client is most popular in Europe – with an install rate of 11.6% – and least popular in the United…

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 23:18:58 +0000

I personally use Deluge, although unstable in some parts (fast resume, ratios, sometimes random crashes) because its still 0.5, it can withstand throttling much better than other clients out there (got 1.3 Mbps down on sandvined Comcast before, although it was a popular torrent, don’t expect wonders), and is lightweight, as is utorrent (did I mention its licensed under GPL and is not owned by BitTorrent Inc.)

Can’t wait until deluge finally is finished though, it’d [probably] be way better than utorrent.

Why is there no FioS option in my area??? Only 2 towns away and there is :( Hate how Comcast has [practically] a monopoly here where I am (like I’m going to use dial-up/slower things).

By: cunt

cunt — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 21:22:44 +0000

[quote comment="360732"]Australians do not havea s much bandwidth to spare as alot of other countries, and most of the filesharers are 14 year old girls :P

So they download their NUMBA ONE KEWL HITSS! off teh limegays.

Limewire is so full of fakes and malware its no good…..u torrent ftw
slsk for music[/quote]

Your a drop kick..

that is all

By: sum1!

sum1! — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 21:18:01 +0000

[quote comment="360571"]I’ve installed both LimeWire and uTorrent ^^

But eh… LimeWire is for the fourteen year old girl who heard a nice song on the radio or from a friend, and they have no idea that when they download they should not close LimeWire so they stop sharing.

On the other hand, uTorrent is for the real pirates who knows how to seed. So it’s only natural that uTorrent generates more traffic than LimeWire.

So I’m kinda a middle-thing between fourteen year old girl (even though I’m male) and a real pirate I guess.[/quote]

and their are people further up then us :(

By: pBorgers » Blog Archive » Bittorrent - Statistiken

pBorgers » Blog Archive » Bittorrent - Statistiken — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 16:44:36 +0000

[...] http://torrentfreak.com/p2p-statistics-080426/ gibt es ganz interessante Statistiken zum Thema Bittorrent. Es geht vor allem darum, wie verbreitet [...]

By: gwabar

gwabar — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 16:41:06 +0000

I use utorrent because it is simple, fast and I get all that I need from it. I’m not worried about getting caught by anyone tbh since my country isn’t persecuting anyone who shares file.

I think people who are arguing over which client is better have limited intelligence. And people who argue that “THIS IS FOR TEH NOOBS, MY PROGRAM RULZ” are mentally challenged in some way.

Use whatever program you like, as long as it gets you what you want.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 16:30:55 +0000

[quote comment="360959"]I’m not too familiar with BitTorrent Inc. All I know is that I cannot use uTorrent anymore (paranoid), because I’ve been caught twice by my cable provider for downloading a movie. One more strike and I’m out.[/quote]

It’s not the cable provider who ‘caught you’, it’s media company companies in the torrent swarms you participate in.

[quote comment="361418"]And yet you reward your cable provider for shitting all over you by continuing to subscribe.

Good work. People like you are the reason that ISPs can get away with bullying their own customers.[/quote]

The ISPs are obliged to respond and you know that.

By: Putin 08

Putin 08 — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 16:02:09 +0000

And yet you reward your cable provider for shitting all over you by continuing to subscribe.

Good work. People like you are the reason that ISPs can get away with bullying their own customers.

By: Noobs

Noobs — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 15:22:45 +0000

“Real Pirates” Do not even use BT. I’ll just leave it at that.