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uTorrent & BitTorrent Hit 100 Million Monthly Users

uTorrent’s parent company BitTorrent Inc. just announced that the BitTorrent Mainline client and uTorrent combined have hit the milestone of 100 million monthly users. On an average day 20 million users from over 220 countries fire up one of the two BitTorrent clients. If that’s not enough, the company also reports that 400,000 new clients are downloaded every day.

bittorrentuTorrent for Windows saw its first public release in September 2005 and soon became the most widely used BitTorrent application. The potential of the minimalistic client was soon picked up by BitTorrent Inc. who bought it in December 2006.

In the years that followed the original BitTorrent mainline client was gradually transformed into a rebranded version of uTorrent, and today BitTorrent Inc. announced that both clients combined now have more than 100 million active users a month. Users literally come from all over the world, with 20 million active daily users from over 220 countries.

“This is an exciting day for our team. Our vision is to build a complete technology ecosystem comprised of software, content and devices, designed to connect modern content creators with a massive digital audience,” BitTorrent CEO Eric Klinker said. “This milestone highlights the size of our user base and the power of our software.”

BitTorrent Inc.’s acquisition of uTorrent is without doubt the best decision the company has ever made. Where other projects such as the “movie store” and CDN-services failed miserably, uTorrent’s popularity kept on growing.

The irony is that the company which founded one of the most innovative technologies on the web in the last ten years, has not managed to build a new business model around it. Perhaps the BitTorrent powered movie store and CDN were ahead of its time, but the fact is that the company now relies on a toolbar to pay the salaries of its employees.

While there is no shame in relying on toolbars to keep million of BitTorrent users satisfied with an entirely free experience, we can only assume that the company had a greater plan in mind when it was founded back in 2004. That said, toolbars do bring in some serious money.

In addition to the millions of daily active users, the BitTorrent Mainline and uTorrent client are downloaded by 400,000 people a day according to BitTorrent Inc. An unknown percentage of these new downloads also choose to install the toolbar, which is good for millions of dollars in revenue a year.

This stable stream of revenue ensures that BitTorrent Inc. can continue the development of uTorrent in the future, and that’s a welcome message to at least 100 million BitTorrent users. TorrentFreak congratulates BitTorrent for reaching this impressible milestone, and we’re eager to see how far this number can increase in the future.

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  • João

    Felicidades….
    Keep going strong….
    Viva a liberdade do Internet !!

  • Eloh

    <3 utorrent

  • puddi puddi

    been using utorrent for years… but I miss the old look. I got so used to the way it looked when I turned on my pc every morning. It just doen’t look utorrent anymore

  • Anonymous

    People choose to install toolbars? I thought they’re only installed for people mindlessly clicking Next.

  • me myself and i

    i can’t understand why so many people use utorrent a closed source bt client when there are great #floss bt clients such as: deluge, transmission, qbittorrent, ktorrent and of course rtorrent….

  • Anonymous

    @3

    You mean this look right?

    http://cache.filehippo.com/img/ex/1055__utorrent5.png

    Why not just downgrade?.

  • herman

    @ puddi puddi

    If you search around the µTorrent forums, you can download the old icon set so it looks like the way you like. That’s what I did, but I am using µTorrent 3.0.

    > why so many people use utorrent a
    > closed source bt client

    Because they are not an open source douche like you. Just because its open source doesn’t make the software any better. µTorrent is where its at because it offers an incredible number of up-to-date features while taking up minimal of resources. This is an example of how all computer programs should be made.

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  • TheSheep

    Almost as big as fagbook :D

  • In Torrent Rehab

    My guess is that 2011 will be the year that the tide turns against P2P and file sharing. This shit cannot go on for much longer.

    This is just a practical issue. A statement of fact, not an ethical or legal judgment on what “should” be allowed. Basically, P2P is to intellectual property what counterfeiting is to money. Counterfeiting is basically money piracy. If we allowed people to just print up $100 bills, then nobody would produce anything, and society would collapse. Ultimately, the USG will do whatever it takes to prevent counterfeiting. It doesn’t matter what legal or moral arguments you come up with in favor of counterfeiting money, you’re going to be stopped. That’s all there is to it. Set up shop in a third world country, do your best to stay secret, whatever… as much time, effort, and resources as it takes will be deployed to find you and stop you. As many laws will be broken as necessary.

    The same thing basically applies to piracy. If producers of intellectual property cannot maintain the artificial scarcity of their information then they cannot stay in business and they cannot keep producing that information. Basically information is going into the equivalent of hyperinflation. This is screwing over a lot more people than just the MPAA and the RIAA. You’ve got to throw in the entire software industry, the news media, and the entire publishing industry as well (especially as books are increasingly distributed in digital format). Basically anybody who owns intellectual property. Do you really think that all these people, with their hundreds of billions if not trillions of dollars, are going to let themselves get totally rolled by a few geeks in Sweden with their several millions of dollars derived from ads for various scams?

    You are talking about the backbone of the US economy here. The fact that the lawsuits have failed just means the fight is going to get uglier. Domain seizures are just the start. Ultimately, if it came down to it, the USG will militarily conquer Sweden and wipe out TPB’s servers – and I can assure you that the matter will be settled long before resorting to that.

    I laugh at the proposals that TPB could move to the “Republic of Sealand” or some bullshit like that and keep going. Oh yeah? Then what happens when the MPAA or some other group hires pirates – I mean *real* pirates, i.e. mean motherfuckers with guns, not geeks with a picture of a pirate ship on their website – to come kill them and smash their servers? Is Sealand prepared to defend itself from foreign invasion? I can assure you that corporations have overthrown governments much larger than Sealand or probably even Sweden. Read up on the history of 20th century Latin America if you don’t believe me.

    I kind of have mixed feelings about it. On the one hand, I’ve downloaded probably a few terabytes of stuff of BT over the years, and I’ll miss the freebies. But ultimately, I live in the US, and piracy is realistically one of the reasons why the economy is in the shitter. I really don’t think all the intellectually productive people in the world want to be put out of work by a handful of freeloaders. The sooner BT goes down, the better.

  • Hommer

    Humm, I thought there was only 195 Countries in the world (give or take a couple), Where did the other 25 come from

  • Hommer.nzl

    Humm, I thought there was only 195 Countries in the world (give or take a couple), Where did the other 25 come from

  • puddi puddi

    @6 can’t downgrade… private tracker

    @7 herman fucking awesome thank you dude… can’t beat nostalgia (even though it was what, 2 months ago?) I had no idea we could do this…

  • Anonymous

    Toolbars. Heehee. Bars for tools.

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  • MarcusCanadious

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=957a5RWZeHo

    I found that it was suitable for whatever reason.

  • Anonymous

    Vuze is way better , feature wise. My preference for MOST of my sharing needs.

    Still use utorrent for some trackers and for mp3′s.
    Performs way better with hundreds of torrents running than vuze.

    Still , as objective as my opinion is , and with the blind , faith like belief of most utorrent fanboys , my opinion is sure to be shot down by some rediculous argument.

    So to silence the haters…

    Firefox uses more cpu/ram than vuze.. FACT
    But you will ignore that.
    (different to how I ignore it , to make use of it’s features )
    .
    .

    In utorrent… go set a SINGLE torrent …

    ….When download has finnished….

    Seed at full speed until ratio is 1.0
    AND
    Make sure it seeds for 48hours total.
    AND
    Limit the upload speed to 50kbps when ratio 1.0 is reached.
    AND
    Remove torrent from utorrent when done.

    Oh… can’t do that with utorrent.. can you ?

    So fanboys… don’t call people stupid for NOT using utorrent.
    There are valid reasons not to use it… Just like there are valid reasons to use it.

  • elduka

    its what i use

  • 5318008

    @13

    Did you just compare Firefox to Vuze?

  • puddi puddi

    how long is my response going to await moderation? I was just giving a friendly thanks to the dude that let me know I could change to the old icons in utorrent… maybe the vulgarities I guess, but this isn’t semame street… lololol

  • puddi puddi

    how long is my response going to await moderation? I was just giving a friendly thanks to the dude that let me know I could change to the old icons in utorrent… maybe the vulgarities I guess, but this isn’t sesame street… lololol

  • Vali

    µTorrent = second best thing about the internet…1st being porn

  • glh5

    Deluge > µTorrent.

  • Caveman

    100 million?!! holy motherfuckin shit! didn’t know it was that much

  • 3l3ctr1c P3n510n3r

    Orange > Apple ;)

  • Crime Pays

    “Perhaps the BitTorrent powered movie store and CDN were ahead of its time…”

    It’s strange that you say this, for as far as I can tell, there is and has been a hugely succesful BitTorrent-powered ‘movie store’ and ‘content delivery network’ up and running for years. For example: Top 10 Most Shared Movies on BitTorrent.

  • Anonymous

    @7

    Nice attitude.And I thought you guys were all about sharing and software freedom.

  • Anonymous

    @5 many kitties in school use the regular client and say “it just works, I dunno” I have heard this from many supposably computer smart kitties in school, I’m like I use bittyrant as it works better and they just say “regular one works fine for me, I will use it instead” and continue to use regular version

    Too bad this couldn’t have been edonkey2000 or em ule clients, win mx also could use some users. Edonkey 2000 network build basically bittorrent as they are the same archatecture almost and the developer even stated this. people use em ule also as it is better and when the ed 2k sites collapsed (many of them) due to antipiracy action, the bittorrent ones were coming. I remember the news stories where 35% of the bandwidth on the internet was being consumed in front of north america and they were about to uncover who was using it and what was going on as it was identified as white noise then they stated that it was bittorrent using it and everyone was like what is bittorrent and then it came to us and went everywhere after that. After many big antipiracy crackdowns ed 2k overtook it again then no new news reports about who was using more traffic then all we hear now is bittorrent bittorrent etc. Em ule should have put toolbar to make money and help grow as bittorrent was based off of ed2k.

  • Anonymous

    @ 9

    I can assure you that corporations have overthrown governments much larger than Sealand or probably even Sweden. Read up on the history of 20th century Latin America if you don’t believe me.

    You mean the economic “hit” operations run by the CIA using front companies and corporations, targeting the countries and politicians in Central and South America that refused to play ball with the US? Yes we know…

    But ultimately, I live in the US, and piracy is realistically one of the reasons why the economy is in the shitter

    Oh spare us the bullshit sob story!!
    Your economy is in the “shitter” because of numerous things that have nothing to do with filesharing. Theft and misappropriation of funds at the hands of Wall St, the bankers and a cabal of down right corrupt politicians, not too mention a decade of warmongering in the middle east is where you should be laying blame, if you were to be truthful.

    Your country needs to learn to get along with the rest of the world and stop trying to dominate it.

  • Ryzzo

    @9 Wait… What?

    Please tell me you’re joking. Piracy has been proven time and time again (by real and credible studies, not one bought by the MAFIAA) to promote the industries that claim losses as well as generate them revenue. Piracy was around well before the internet and isn’t going anywhere no matter how many rich old men cry and complain that they can’t afford gold foil toilet paper anymore to wipe their “unnovative” asses. When I was a kid I made mix tapes and cd’s with my friends and shared music. This led us to hear different artists and *when we had money* go out and purchase their music or see their shows or get some merchandise. If I couldn’t get exposure to them through sharing, I certainly wouldn’t go out and buy them because the little money I had was way too important of a commodity to potentially waste on the commercial crap the record labels try to push on us. I bought a lot of music I probably wouldn’t have because I heard it for free first. This is how it works!

  • Baloo2

    @Hommer (#10 & #11)

    You are correct, at least if you count the number of countries recognized by the UN. 193 countries to be exact.

    But there are 243 “countries” with their own TLD, so I guess we can say that on internet there are 243 countries. :)

  • Anonymous

    these ratings are bulljobbies all rigged to make more idiots join

  • BlogTeaChips13

    love u torrent!!!

    wth ….do yall write essays and book reports on torrentfreak no matter what the subject is….
    i wish i could do this in english class

  • qbitorrent or deluge

    they are both better and minimalist on system resource i prefer qbit

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  • Dick Little

    Monkey see monkey do. uTorrent is crapware like the Mac computer but marketers hype them both to the ignorant at large.

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  • El polo loco

    #9
    You’ve been duped! Money is a material object. If there is $100 in the world and you counterfeit $100 , the original $100 is worth half what it was worth before the counterfeit. The fed has counterfeited trillions of dollars. Not to mention $2 billion a week on the afghan war.

    Ideas can’t be stolen. If you don’t want to share your ideas, keep them in your head. It’s up to the creators of movies and music to find ways to monetize their creations, instead of using the government to ensure profits. Just like it is up to web site creators to monetize their creations. What if my space could sue face book for “stealing” their users. That would be stupid. Just like the music industry demanding royalties anytime happy birthday is sung.

  • HengTeets

    Wow, that is truly amazing when you think about it.

    anon-web-tools.edu.tc

  • jon7272

    for all you uttorent haters 100 milion people a month use it and like it so who gives a flying f what you think

  • khanind

    @5.. what the heck would one do if its open source, I am not going to reverse engineer it. It(utorrent) does its job perfectly and is free too.

  • dg100

    @5, by Me Myself And I:

    You’ve asked a fair question, I think. I think there are several major reasons why ?Torrent has more public support.

    First and foremost, ?T has much better marketing. Like it or not, advertising’s a lot easier with money than without it and for most people, a recognised name is a lot easier to trust than a client they’ve never even heard of.

    It also has much better “natural” exposure from being owned by the curators of the BitTorrent protocol itself – if a new feature is to become a part of the spec, I think it’s more likely to originate here than in another client.

    Also, even assuming an application is fully-featured, what’s great on Linux isn’t always the same ported to Windows. Not necessarily worse, by any means, but not quite right either.

    Deluge, for example, really isn’t bad at all – but it doesn’t look or feel like a Windows program.

    It’s the contrast, I think: going from a native Windows app (or a well-integrated FOSS program, such as FireFox) to Deluge’s GTK interface and back is too much of a wrench.

    The look is too different, the internal menus are too different. It’s fine in Ubuntu, but it just feels wrong on XP.

    Updating the GTK library (as used by many FOSS programs) so that the program is more consistently native may help level the playing field somewhat. It could do with slimming down a bit as well.

    The actual FOSS BT clients you listed are something of a mixed bag.

    Transmission and rTorrent do not appear to be available for Windows, so I can’t currently test them – and kTorrent for Windows hasn’t been updated since 2008, so it can zark off. 90% of their potential users will never even know they exist, which serves their developers right.

    qBittorrent – I’ve tried this out on your recommendation and it’s not too bad, as clients go, but not great either. Not very smart, not well-behaved, it’s basically Deluge’s irritating and pointless little brother.

    On Windows, Deluge is the only client on your list to really compete with ?Torrent and the only one I’m genuinely impressed by.

    It’s reasonably well-behaved and – now that I’ve finally eradicated a really annoying previous-installation bug that kept it from working – is running fine on my machine.

    It’s porky as hell – at 27MB for the client and another 35MB for the GTK runtime, it really is much too big, especially next to ?Torrent. The interface is the usual GTK vision of ugliness, although the menus aren’t as badly overloaded as Vuze. And while it’s not quite there yet in terms of some features, it does clearly surpass ?T’s current capabilities in others.

    Definitely one to follow with great interest. If GTK improves and Deluge is able to match or exceed ?T in a few more respects, I may well feel compelled to eventually jump ship.

    And if ?T ever does “turn evil” in reality, as many FOSS advocates seem to expect, this is almost certainly the client I’ll be migrating to. :D

  • dg100

    Question-mark-Torrent? WTF? I guess that serves me right for writing things out correctly. :P:P:P

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  • hrrm

    due to caps ive now stopped using bittorrent
    uses too much bandwidth

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  • dg100

    @9 by In Torrent Rehab:

    I salute you, fellow wittering loony! :D

    Regarding your misperception that creative workers are dependant on scarcity to make a living: No.

    The middle-men we have now – especially those companies set up purely to fight anti-piracy campaigns – are dependant on scarcity and these middle-men are already essentially obsolete.

    Whether they want to or not, they’ll either move over to new business models or lower their operating costs and charges to avoid going under.

    Only a very few are stupid enough to do nothing in the face of multi-industry-wide changes. Only a very few are dependant on the anti-piracy campaign to earn a living. The world won’t miss them, not even a little bit.

    As I understand things:

    The porn industry has already essentially moved over to a service-based economy;

    Most of the games industry describes itself as being ‘in transition’ to a purely DLC- and service-based economy;

    The news- and book-publishing industries are mostly still thinking about it and are waiting to see what happens with various marketing experiments, such as the New York Times’ move to online subscriptions;

    Hollywood and the music industry are the only sectors to have firmly set their faces against the internet and even they are – very gradually – allowing more freedom to distribute content online.

    Both of those industries are largely run by the easily-panicked. Once a few of the bigger companies from other industries have found a way to consistently make a profit selling comparable content online as a service instead of as unit-sales, they’ll all start piling into the same boat, for fear of losing out.

    That kind of fear is exactly what motivated them to allow music on iTunes to finally become DRM-free after years of stalling (just for one example) and it’s what will drag them into whatever comes next.

    One day, with a little luck (and a continuing big push from piracy), the anti-piracy campaign will become nothing more than a distant memory. :D

  • dg100

    Ummm… I’ve just realised that my comments today seem to take up about 25% of the entire comments section thus far. Even by my own standards of insomniac tl;dr, I’ve clearly overdone it by some considerable way. Sorry for any inconvenience. :/

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  • GoldenBoar

    @9
    “This is just a practical issue. A statement of fact, not an ethical or legal judgment on what “should” be allowed. Basically, P2P is to intellectual property what counterfeiting is to money. Counterfeiting is basically money piracy. If we allowed people to just print up $100 bills, then nobody would produce anything, and society would collapse.”

    Reproduction of digital files is basically free of cost. If a content creator can create a file, reproduce it an infinite number of times, and sell each reproduction at the full cost of the initial product, then how the hell is that not a license to print money?

  • Ninja

    @15 Jan 04, 2011 at 00:35 by Anonymous: yes you can do that with utorrent. Get informed. And I’m not even a fanboy lol.

    Oh and how piracy hurts the US economy. I remember rading this at Sankaku about how piracy hurts the Japanese manga and anime industry. In the end these very same whining industries are at fault for either ignoring their consumers completely (as Japan does with the rest of the world forcing the prices way up) or ignoring their consumers partially as the US industry does by ignoring what they really want and relying in an outdated business model (ie: sane prices for digital media, any1?).

    Also, don’t blame recent recession on piracy. You just need 1 neuron and a few minutes of reading about the topic to notice that a series of factors ranging from irresponsible credit usage and stock market stunts to plain robbery and corruption. Intellectual property probably accounts for 0.01% of the recession. And I’m being ironic considering MAFIAA has posted successive revenue records.

    Ppl don’t embarrass yourselves, think before talking.

  • Anonymous

    to @44 .. in your response to @15

    you can’t do that with utorrent…

    Go try it NOW…

    You can do ONE of those at a time.. BUT not all of them together.

    You see.. constant calculations for all of the “rules” listed @15 .. take more cpu and ram to complete..
    IF you have hundreds of torrents running that cpu and ram “”hit”" is large.

    I don’t expect to see a fully featured “event manager” in utorrent in the NEAR future.
    cpu hit is too much.

    BUT thats why I use utorrent…
    for lot’s of MP3 files (nearly one thousand)

    By staying lean… utorrent is the fastest performing torrent client that I use. (cpu/ram/overall snappiness)

    Vuze is the most feature rich.
    But I couldn’t run nearly One thousand mp3′s in vuze , and use it to controll torrent downloading/seeding & rules/tasks.

    rss and vuze , make downloading/seeding to multiple specific rules that trackers want , possible.
    .
    .

    To do the exact same job in utorrent…..
    you need to run multiple instances.

    Sometimes (rare) even , two instances for the one site. Depending on the sites rules (ratio / H&R ect.. ) AND the type of torrent downloaded ( free , half stats ect… )

  • Anonymous

    @9

    My guess is that 2011 will be the year that the tide turns against P2P and file sharing. This shit cannot go on for much longer.

    So in 2011 , People will lose human decency , and stop sharing ?
    Or
    Bully boy tactics by major corperations will scare people into not sharing , via harsh punishment?

    Either way…

    This “”shit”" will go on. :)
    Reasons below.
    .

    1. The people who share.. BUY the most.. FACT

    2. People who can’t afford to buy so , where NEVER going to buy anyway.
    Them , getting A COPY for free , doesn’t make a difference at all to sales. FACT

    3. RECORD PROFITS in ALL digital media industries. FACT

    4. MOST Humans like to be nice , and SHARE. FACT

    .
    The industries are stupid , if they continue to fight individuals who copy and share.

    @1. = punnishing customers who buy the most ?

    @2. = punnishing the poor.

    @3. = being even greedier.

    @4. = fight against human morals.

    NO WONDER.. people hate the “”mafia & IRA “” so much.

    spelling mistakes , FREE of charge. ( copy it and share )

    . . . . . . . . . . .PEOPLE . . . . . . . . . . .
    . . . . . . . .SHARE LIKE FUK . . . . . . . .

    If you could copy and download a cancer drug?

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  • Anon

    The number of low life thieves are going through the roof. Sad state of affairs!

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  • Terrorist

    @48

    If you want to see thieves operating on an industrial scale, try looking up. The whole system of property is effectively theft when you look at where things come from, little more than a raiding of the worlds resources for the purposes of selfish profit, most often to the detriment of the many.

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  • Caveman

    @Terrorist

    I couldn’t agree with you more

  • Frank Merton

    First Point: It’s weird that people develop such huge love for certain software packages, and even weirder that others develop such hate.

    What works for one person, with one set of needs and one working environment, will not work as well for another. Further, I just don’t believe anyone tests any given system enough to become so damn certain “this” is better than “that.”

    Second Point: What is the problem with tool-bars? (This strikes me as judgmental elitism). Often they are junk, and I’ve learned to avoid a few, but I try them out. I like the one that came with U-Torrent, although I will admit I have it turned off much of the time to save screen space.

    Third Point: People who attack file sharing are not fascists and people who defend it are not hippie commies. The issue is copyright, and it is plain that the copyright laws are largely controlled by the legal profession and the media big-shots, and so have become harmful to society. They need to be reformed.

    That said, if you want the big-buck items–the blockbuster special effects movies and so on, they do have to be paid for somehow.

    Still, the purpose of copyright laws is for the benefit of the public, not for the benefit of the content producers. Therefore, less expensive stuff does not need the protection, and the idea of rock stars becoming super-millionaires without a hint of talent or risk taking does get me in the craw.

    It also sticks me in the craw to see a copyright holder use it to prevent the public having access to derivative works. This is to me a serious infringement of freedom of speech. So also is the propaganda about “intellectual property.” Again, the only reason we have such a legal concept is to benefit the public, not the property owner.

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