uTorrent Breaks 100 Million Monthly Users

Ernesto
August 17, 2011
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BitTorrent Inc. just confirmed to TorrentFreak that their popular uTorrent client has just broken the magical milestone of 100 million active monthly users. This makes uTorrent the most used BitTorrent client around, and it also shows that BitTorrent as a means to download has become more mainstream than ever before.

uTorrent has come a long way since it first saw the light of day nearly six years ago. What began as a minimalist and no-nonsense client targeted at an already BitTorrent-savvy crowd, is now an application that does far more than downloading alone.

Over the years uTorrent’s target audience has also changed. BitTorrent was still a geek thing in 2005, but today its users include hockey moms, grandparents and many others who are not generally classified as computer experts.

This wider appeal naturally translates into user growth. Today uTorrent’s parent company BitTorrent Inc. confirmed to TorrentFreak that uTorrent has officially surpassed 100 million active users a month. By comparison, this is more active users than the much-hyped social network Twitter, and almost quadruple the number of users uTorrent had three years ago.

“This is a big milestone for uTorrent and adds to what has been a tremendous year of growth for the client,” Shahi Ghanem, Chief Strategist at BitTorrent told TorrentFreak.

We’re grateful for our users and we want to thank our global community for their amazing support. We take every bit of user feedback to heart when building uT and we remain committed to keeping it the world’s fastest and lightest BitTorrent client,” Ghanem added.

Although the 100 million milestone is already quite an achievement, one of the main challenges in the future is to keep even more newcomers on board. Previously it was reported that hundreds of thousands of people download uTorrent every day, but that a significant percentage of this group don’t become regular users.

To tackle this problem of “bouncing” users, uTorrent has made changes to its client in recent months that aim to keep more novices on board. An example is the “simplified view,” allowing users to minimize parts of the uTorrent interface to focus attention on the most essential client features. And that’s just one of the many changes the company has made.

Later this year will see another change in course for uTorrent as BitTorrent Inc. launches a paid version of the client. Branded “uTorrent Plus,” this version of uTorrent will come with several added features including the ability to convert videos and transfer files to external devices. More details on this project are expected to come out in the coming weeks.

By reaching 100 million active monthly users the uTorrent brand is stronger than ever before. It is also an indication the BitTorrent’s popularity in general is still growing, despite fierce competition from direct download sites and streaming services. Indeed, BitTorrent is here to stay.

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Lynx

Contgrats!
- http://twitter.com/icanhazsake Ninja
  
  I second that. Hopefully they’ll keep it minimal… As it was when I started using it years ago =/
Truther

Just as I left Vuze when they released Plus, the same will happen with uTorrent.
Truther

Just as I left Vuze when they released Plus, the same will happen with uTorrent.
MAFIAAFire

You can’t stop technology for long…

(MPAA and RIAA morons, I’m talking to you)
MAFIAAFire

You can’t stop technology for long…

(MPAA and RIAA morons, I’m talking to you)
- Cujo
  
  they’re doin PR ;)
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_FCNK7C55CBUYFVSC5LNWKB322E Buglord

paid version of µtorrent… I don’t understand why they even suggested it at all!
and what you have to pay for, seems to be the kind of things people already use µtorrent for so that they DON’T have to pay for doing those things, even if there are easy & good free software already out there to use for the same things…
- Guest
  
  I will keep using Transmission. ;)
Bayern okinyi

you guys rock
Tuneupapps

Hell yeah!
Whatisthis

I hate what uTorrent has become. I still use 2.0.4 and I suspect many millions still do.
- http://tinyurl.com/DropSkirt w3ts1ut
  
  Personally I’ve found that most peers on small private trackers use the good shit, rTorrent, deluge, transmission, older versions of uTorrent etc. I see very few in most small private trackers using uTorrent 3.0+ (probably because people make so many threads about how much it sucks lol.. the occasional extremist fanboy drops by from time to time to hope to prove everyone wrong)
  
  Larger public swarms seem to have more of uTorrent 3.0+ in the mix, this seems to reflect the general idea that most public swarms are packed with ignorant users who know not the value of seeding, those who have 15 different FREE propriety malware toolbars because they rush through installations, or those who assume that deleting a simple .torrent file is the same as deleting the whole movies they downloaded -.-
  
  But hey, just brief observations, I’m not gonna write a thesis on it :P
- http://tinyurl.com/DropSkirt w3ts1ut
  
  Personally I’ve found that most peers on small private trackers use the good shit, rTorrent, deluge, transmission, older versions of uTorrent etc. I see very few in most small private trackers using uTorrent 3.0+ (probably because people make so many threads about how much it sucks lol.. the occasional extremist fanboy drops by from time to time to hope to prove everyone wrong)
  
  Larger public swarms seem to have more of uTorrent 3.0+ in the mix, this seems to reflect the general idea that most public swarms are packed with ignorant users who know not the value of seeding, those who have 15 different FREE propriety malware toolbars because they rush through installations, or those who assume that deleting a simple .torrent file is the same as deleting the whole movies they downloaded -.-
  
  But hey, just brief observations, I’m not gonna write a thesis on it :P
  - Johnny Boy
    
    Your comment seems to reflect the general idea that you’re a prick who makes up random bullshit about people you don’t even know.
    - Rekrul
      
      It’s not random. Do you have any idea how many computers I’ve seen that have so much unnecessary crap added to the startup that they take 7-10 minutes to boot and over a minute to open a new window? I knew a woman who went out and bought a new computer because the old one “got too slow”. The last time I saw it, there about 20 icons in the system, multiple toolbars, etc. The only thing wrong with it was all the useless crap that got installed on it. That and the pound of crumbs the kids had managed to drop on the keyboard. Seriously, the keys made crunching sounds when you pressed them. Ugh!
    - Rekrul
      
      Oops, that should say “The last time I saw it, there about 20 icons in the system tray…”
    - Rekrul
      
      Oops, that should say “The last time I saw it, there about 20 icons in the system tray…”
    - Guest
      
      ahahah the utorrent 3 fanboys you mentioned are posting here now XD
      
      umad bro?
      
      tho i love utorrent but cannot continue to support or even use the new versions
    - Scary Devil Monastery
      
      @Rekrul
      
      “Do you have any idea how many computers I’ve seen that have so much unnecessary crap added to the startup that they take 7-10 minutes to boot and over a minute to open a new window?”
      
      You forgot the most obvious reason – people drop install files on their desktop mandatin another ten gigs worth of data the computer has to churn on startup.
      
      And they never defragment either, leaving a powerful quad core idling away while it’s waiting for the hard drive bottleneck…:(
  - Rekrul
    
    Don’t forget the users who don’t delete the torrents because they don’t know how to find the files on the drive and therefore think that opening them through uTorrent is the only way to access them.
    - puddipuddi
      
      I actually use utorrent to find things alphabetically. I have stuff on so many hard drives, I can never remember where to find it. It’s nice to categorize everything you have in one window.
  - Nope
    
    Bittorrent client elitism? Wow, fat nerds really WILL wank over anything
    - Anonymous
      
      Congratulations, I’m sure the world loves your astonishing contribution to the discussion.
  - Nope
    
    Bittorrent client elitism? Wow, fat nerds really WILL wank over anything
- xxx
  
  all the way with 1.8.1 babe. wheee..:lol:
  - Randy_Lahey
    
    ^ This
  - Randy_Lahey
    
    ^ This
  - Anonymous
    
    You should upgrade, more than likely a version that far out will have security problems… next time you might connect to a dodgy tracker or even a dodgy peer, and become part of a botnet.
  - abc
    
    I’m still on 1.8.3 coz I got a hacked version that forces DHT on all torrents, and no I don’t do private trackers, I feel they go against the ethos of bittorrent, sharing is caring.
- Unknown
  
  im still on 1.8 i hate upgrades
  - Cool5
    
    utorrent_1.7.6 here
- Jmorse43508
  
  I seem to recall reading recently that the latest version, 3.0, is complete crap – there are many complaints about it, and the interface is hosed.
  
  You’re better off sticking with any of the pre-3.0 versions.
- Cool5
  
  Same here using utorrent_1.7.6… Google OldApps
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Djjjd

I’m not sure the “bouncing” users has much to do with the program itself, I’ve introduced many technologically-illiterate friends to uTorrent; what’s hard for them is downloading the torrent – finding them, and avoiding viruses, malware and other nasties primarily. There’s not much place in the file-sharing community for the tech-illiterate, it seems. Not much uTorrent can do about that, they do have a user-guide after all.
Sabby2013

congrats
and it would be ironical when i download cracked paid verson via my utorrent :P
- wootzy
  
  it’s not ironic. u don’t think they expect people to do that? and idk why anyone would waste bandwidth pirating the paid version. if they were actually tech savvy they would already have conversion tools etc and have no need for such trivialities cluttering up their clean cut utorrent
Glib

I am mostly curious about the “More Secure Torrenting” features of the plus version; here’s to hoping uTorrent will integrate directly with VPN providers so I can pipe all my torrent traffic through my VPN without having to put my entire neighbourhood’s traffic through it.
http://www.facebook.com/Oyashiro.Chama Jacob Ruble

*trolltype* I was using it before it was mainstream *trolltype*
- Randy_Lahey
  
  I posted the (one of the) first public versions on demonoid.
  
  Yes, as a torrent.
  
  I’ll go away now.
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http://www.facebook.com/eric.boehm Jack Murdock

You must be thrilled at all the money you have made at the expense of artists, mr Cohen. 100 million users.. It’s mind numbing, how many people don’t have the conscience to pay for things they routinely enjoy.

Technology is actually what helps our economy grow. For example, a new car is invented with some fancy new gps tech and many people buy it. I highly doubt the government has a vendetta against technology growth. However, that doesn’t mean that technology is above criticism. Especially when so many lost jobs and a suffering economy can be laid at it’s feet.
- Needlez
  
  @Jack: your stupidity never ceases to amaze me. Firstly just because 100 million people use utorrent doesn’t mean they all use it to illegally download stuff. Have you ever heard of Linux? I download the .iso file for Linux distros using torrent programs like transmission. And have friends who do the same, in windows using Utorrent. Further more, your second point isn’t a point. Its more like a statement that has no point and doesn’t make any sense. See firstly when a car is made the people who make the car get paid to make it, no in the movie industry the people who make the movie or whatever don’t get paid you get paid then pay them a percentage back. I wonder what you ( the MPAA/RIAA) would do if all the artist and film makers said fuck you and boycotted you until you gave them all the money they deserve. And if you’re going to say, but you pirate movies and stuff and don’t give anything back. First I’d like to point out you don’t know me so you can’t say that. I go to the movies and pay to watch movies most of the time, the only time I don’t is when I think there is nothing good out. Therefore you wouldn’t make anything off me to begin with. Secondly digital content should be free to all people. There’s a little thing called freedom of data act. Which you can’t stop the flow of data or news so why couldn’t this be used. And finally, even if that last one wouldn’t hold up, here’s one that I know will. How can you even prove that the person you said is “stealing” the content is the correct person. And if you say its cuz of the IP address you really are an idiot its called IP spoofing for a reason. Thank you. Just thought I might educate you so you can go tell all of your troll buddies.
  - http://zombo.com zarathustra
    
    tl;dr
    
    Why waste time trying to reason with this dickhole? It’s patently obvious he’s never going to achieve clue.
    
    Just SPNAK! him & move on.
  - http://www.facebook.com/eric.boehm Jack Murdock
    
    “your stupidity never ceases to amaze me. ”
    It seems that the meaning on the word irony is lost on you. Your inability to be honest with yourself never ceases to amaze me. Somehow you managed to miss the untold multitudes of copyrighted torrents. Is that even possible? Do you just shut your eyes while you are browsing torrents?
    
    Here are the most recent torrents from the pirate bay
    http://thepiratebay.org/recent/0
    
    Copyrighted material as far as the eye can see.
    
    “Firstly just because 100 million people use utorrent doesn’t mean they all use it to illegally download stuff. Have you ever heard of Linux? I download the .iso file for Linux distros using torrent programs like transmission. ”
    LOL! You are so delusional, it’s not even funny. Time for a reality check. Go look at any big name torrent site. Copyrighted material everywhere. Surprise! Yeah, I have heard of linux, but do you seriously believe that everyone of the pirate bay’s 10 million torrents is for fucking linux or pioneer one? The fact that copyrighted content is always the most downloaded and that it vastly outnumbers non copyrighted content should give you a hint.
    
    “I wonder what you ( the MPAA/RIAA) would do if all the artist and film makers said fuck you and boycotted you until you gave them all the money they deserve. ”
    Wow, now we’re making progress. You just admitted that the creative industry deserves to reap their rightful profits. So, and pirates have been paying the film makers and artists the money they deserve?
    - Anonymous
      
      I’m going point out from now on all the stupid sh*t you say. I’m making it a goal of mine to prove you wrong consistently til you start thinking before you post anything.
      
      “Firstly just because 100 million people use utorrent doesn’t mean they all use it to illegally download stuff. Have you ever heard of Linux? I download the .iso file for Linux distros using torrent programs like transmission. And have friends who do the same, in windows using Utorrent. ” – That’s what Needlez said.
      
      Emphasis on “doesn’t mean they all use it to illegally download stuff”. EMPHASIS ON THAT SPECIFIC PART.
      
      Your response is the following: “LOL! You are so delusional, it’s not even funny. Time for a reality check. Go look at any big name torrent site. Copyrighted material everywhere. Surprise! Yeah, I have heard of linux, but do you seriously believe that everyone of the pirate bay’s 10 million torrents is for fucking linux or pioneer one? The fact that copyrighted content is always the most downloaded and that it vastly outnumbers non copyrighted content should give you a hint.”
      
      Look at what he wrote, and then look at what you wrote in response. Do you see who the delusional one who needs a reality check is? No? It’s you. He, much like myself, clearly pointed out that not everyone is necessarily downloading copyrighted material. You don’t acknowledge that he, and myself, are correct. And that perhaps not everyone is downloading copyrighted material. And that there are legitimate things to be found online and in torrent sites. No one is saying it’s all legit. But we are saying some of it is. That’s the point being made. See the reality distortion there? You can’t for a moment think that perhaps some of those 100 million ARE NOT downloading anything that’s copyrighted. Some might be getting only Linux. Or only Pioneer One. Or a plethora of other things freely shared.
      
      Please Jack, just stop. Like you seriously want to call others delusional and say they have distorted views of reality and then you fail to realize you are suffering from the same thing. I guess the irony of what you say is lost on you. You’re really not helping people’s perceptions of you. That you are beyond biased and completely moronic. And that you spin these amazing things from what people say, even when they’re not saying anything even remotely along the lines of what you’re interpreting. Poor kid. I’d pity you, if I actually had it in me to pity such ignorance. But I don’t. So… [shrugs and laughs instead]
- http://torrentfreak.com/ Rob8urcakes
  
  Filesharers via uT vs. MAFIAA and Jackoff Murdock
  
  Latest score update ….
  100,000,000 – 0 (nil)
  
  lol
- http://tinyurl.com/ANoiXioNA-personal-info ANoiXioNA
  
  Why blame the bittorrent protocol ?
  It is the network protocols TCP/UDP that ~~enable~~ demand file/data sharing.. between computers…
  
  The internet IS a Filesharing network….
  The web of connected computers……make the internet the biggest network ever…
  
  Reality Jack…. Content on the internet is free….has been even before bittorrent….
  After all …. it’s just a number that people are sharing….
  Doesn’t matter how much you spend creating that number…A number is just that..
  
  You can’t steal a number.
- abc
  
  people pay for seedboxes, proxies/VPN and uncapped internet connections but don’t give the money to the media industry, have you ever wondered why Eric?
  A clue why, DRM, pay per individual licence, the creators getting ripped off by media companies, outdated copywrong laws and blood sucking IP lawyers like you Eric, I’ve no doubt that if the media industry introduced an “all you can eat” licence (something like how the bbc works) for the price of a decent VPN or seedbox, people would go for it, piracy levels would plummet and the media companies would make more money, but that would mean a move away from the old outdated business model people like you refuse to let go of! I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again evolve or die and how’s your band “the burbs” going Eric?
- http://twitter.com/icanhazsake Ninja
  
  Yes, yes, because all 100 million are downloading MAFIAA shit and no1 ever downloaded stuff available for free. Add the e-mail users, cyberlocker users to your count of thieves and maybe the world will just seem like a big jail for you =)
- Scary Devil Monastery
  
  Roughly 80% of the downloads that were run through TPB were in fact legit. Now if we assume that your views on dual use hold true for other parts of life then you are in fact also saying that roads and sidewalks aren’t above criticism because these parts of communications infrastructure can also be used for criminal purposes. Back to the drawing board and reformulate your arguments if you please.
  
  As for the torrent protocol itself it’s used in identical fashion as that used by uTorrent for hundreds and thousands of legitimate business purposes. Everything from software updates to online gaming and streaming services.
  
  So in essence what you are saying that this particular brand of screwdriver is reprehensible because it appears to have been involved in crimes – even when the tool in question is identical to many others. Again your argument fails and ends up with a weak stab at the creator of a piece of software.
  
  No matter what your views on filesharing, trying to imply third-party cukpability where none exists simply makes you look like a moron.
  
  And that leaves us with your argument that “technology” causes lost jobs and a suffering economy. I’m nearly at a loss for words as to how to describe the abysmal reasoning you have there. The same held true for any great invention which put an entire industry out of business. You seem to be making a case for the industrial revolution being a bad thing as the automation of labour put a great many guilds and thriving industries right out of business.
- Guest101
  
  smash more windows, the glaziers need work!
  
  Yes, bittorrent completely obsoletes a whole sector of the economy (the old distributors), that doesn’t mean the economy isn’t better off without the fuckers.
- Anonymous
  
  Yep, that’s right. 100 million users. And all of them are downloading copyrighted material. /s
  
  You win the award for “stupidest comment of the day”. Linux. A Lonely Place For Dying. Pioneer One. Etc. Those are all freely distributed things that can be downloaded using uTorrent.
  
  It’s mind numbing how biased and unthinking you are. Literally. I read your comment and my brain semi-shut down to protect itself from the stupidity.
  
  As for your technology remark, wtf are you saying? Technology also put thousands (tens of thousands, etc) of people out of work when they were replaced by robots in assembly lines. Among other things. And the economy moved along just fine when things like that happened. Those workers found other jobs. They adapted. Or died. (Not literally died, but metaphorically, as in they couldn’t survive the change and went on unemployment or something.) And that’s just one example from many where technology came in and shook things up. And it’s not always for the worse as you seem to be implying. Technology has done more good than harm. Except of course the internet. And computers. If it wasn’t for both of those, we’d be spared your “brilliance”. The economy is suffering due to two wars Jack. Wars aren’t cheap. Departments created to fight “terrorism” need money to do their job. That doesn’t come cheap. Implementing security measures at airports to protect us from the boogeyman doesn’t come cheap. Etc etc etc. Those are all things that have been done which have cost money that we don’t even have. Those are all things that have a much more ACTUAL and REAL impact on the economy, as far as hurting it.
  
  But hey keep regurgitating the same BS over and over again. Didn’t I tell you I’d say the same thing in response? The money people don’t use on one thing is money they use on something else, so either way, the economy continues on and that money goes into it. On a personal note, gosh. I just can’t wait to repeat myself again. In a day or so when you say the same idiotic comment you’ve been using for who knows how long now in regards to “hurting the economy”.
  - http://www.facebook.com/eric.boehm Jack Murdock
    
    Ah, electric worry. No, I think there was a mix up. That award was actually supposed to go to you. Denying that people go to torrent sites to find illegal content is like denying that people use cars for transportation. Im sorry. What’s the point? Be honest with yourself.
    
    If you haven’t figured out that the overwhelming majority of content on torrent sites is in fact copyrighted, you must have down syndrome. I don’t know how it could get any more obvious as most sites organize their content by category like “movies”, “music” and “games. And if you don’t know that the most of those things are copyrighted, it might be time to look up copyright on wikipedia.
    
    I guess your brain has shut down, because I don’t know how anyone could believe that torrents are mostly for legal things. The only biased one here is you. I don’t know how bring yourself to ignore the wealth of evidence that says that you are making everything up. Why are the most pirated movies always copyrighted?? Why are all the “recent torrents” on tpb copyrighted. Pioneer one and linux are two things fyi. Vodo (all the non copyrighted movies) only has 117 shows. The number of copyrighted things released every year numbers in the tens of thousands. There are 35,000 cds alone released ever year. You are a complete and utter joke until you can bring yourself to accept this painfully obvious fact.
    - Anonymous
      
      I didn’t deny people go to find copyrighted material. I said there are other reasons they go there as well. Like Linux and freely distributed content as well. To say they go there JUST for copyrighted material is false. And unless you can present proof that that is indeed the only reason people visit such sites, you’re wrong. And still an idiot. Yes, they go there for that, but not just that. Which is the point I was making. Which is what you’re ignoring and instead trying to put words in my mouth. I NEVER said people only get legal things on such sites. I never said the overwhelming majority of stuff isn’t copyrighted. I basically didn’t say a single thing you’re “response” is trying to make it out like I said. Implied or otherwise. So yeah, there’s bias here. It’s coming from you. You did what we say you do. You took one simple quote, a very direct and “you have to be a moron to interpret this in any other way” quote. And spun your gibberish from that and went on the defensive over said gibberish.
      
      Then you ignore the stuff about reasons why the economy’s f*cked at the moment. The wars and whatnot. You ignore that technology isn’t strictly a bad thing, as far as it’s effects in general on the world. You ignore that for the most part technology has been beneficial to society in general. Etc etc etc.
      
      So yeah, I again must restate, you win the award for stupidest comment of the day. I don’t because I didn’t actually say any of what you’re claiming I did. Or deny any of that. I just made a point that you were wrong in what you said. Not all 100 million are up to no good. While it’s reasonable to assume that, that doesn’t make it fact or true or correct or any other synonym for any of those words. There’s only one joke here Jack. It’s you. And the fact that you think you can reply to me and sound like you know what you’re saying, or try and insult me. Please. If we got into a pure contest of either intelligence, or insults, you’d lose both. So don’t try. I’m taking it easy on you. Just admit you were wrong in your assumption, or don’t make such assumptions in the first place and I won’t have to point out your stupidity on a regular basis. Or keep doing what you want, you will anyway, and I’ll keep pointing out the errors in what you say. Either works for me.
    - http://torrentfreak.com/ Rob8urcakes
      
      Aaaaaaaahahahahahahahahah, JackOff now has the audacity to issue advice to TF readers on copywrong issues.
      
      And as if it that isn’t worthy of a gut-busting laugh his advice is that it’s “… time to look up copyright on wikipedia”.
      
      ROFLMAO.
      
      Good one JackOff. Who wants to read or reference actual copywrong law when you can simply look it up in an online encyclopedia powered by voluntary, free contributions from J.Public.
      
      You inadvertently rest our case JackOff. Thank you for so doing “my friend”. Wikipedia is the epitome of the “sharing is caring” principle – and it’s no different to sharing files of various content (including your beloved copywrong content).
      
      Yet again, I see you’re on-board with the Pirates’ arguments. Keep up the good work JackOff coz I certainly look forward to your next sage contribution and promoting you from bilge-swiller to bilge-pump repairs.
  - http://www.facebook.com/eric.boehm Jack Murdock
    
    Ah, electric worry. No, I think there was a mix up. That award was actually supposed to go to you. Denying that people go to torrent sites to find illegal content is like denying that people use cars for transportation. Im sorry. What’s the point? Be honest with yourself.
    
    If you haven’t figured out that the overwhelming majority of content on torrent sites is in fact copyrighted, you must have down syndrome. I don’t know how it could get any more obvious as most sites organize their content by category like “movies”, “music” and “games. And if you don’t know that the most of those things are copyrighted, it might be time to look up copyright on wikipedia.
    
    I guess your brain has shut down, because I don’t know how anyone could believe that torrents are mostly for legal things. The only biased one here is you. I don’t know how bring yourself to ignore the wealth of evidence that says that you are making everything up. Why are the most pirated movies always copyrighted?? Why are all the “recent torrents” on tpb copyrighted. Pioneer one and linux are two things fyi. Vodo (all the non copyrighted movies) only has 117 shows. The number of copyrighted things released every year numbers in the tens of thousands. There are 35,000 cds alone released ever year. You are a complete and utter joke until you can bring yourself to accept this painfully obvious fact.
- Anonymous
  
  Yep, that’s right. 100 million users. And all of them are downloading copyrighted material. /s
  
  You win the award for “stupidest comment of the day”. Linux. A Lonely Place For Dying. Pioneer One. Etc. Those are all freely distributed things that can be downloaded using uTorrent.
  
  It’s mind numbing how biased and unthinking you are. Literally. I read your comment and my brain semi-shut down to protect itself from the stupidity.
  
  As for your technology remark, wtf are you saying? Technology also put thousands (tens of thousands, etc) of people out of work when they were replaced by robots in assembly lines. Among other things. And the economy moved along just fine when things like that happened. Those workers found other jobs. They adapted. Or died. (Not literally died, but metaphorically, as in they couldn’t survive the change and went on unemployment or something.) And that’s just one example from many where technology came in and shook things up. And it’s not always for the worse as you seem to be implying. Technology has done more good than harm. Except of course the internet. And computers. If it wasn’t for both of those, we’d be spared your “brilliance”. The economy is suffering due to two wars Jack. Wars aren’t cheap. Departments created to fight “terrorism” need money to do their job. That doesn’t come cheap. Implementing security measures at airports to protect us from the boogeyman doesn’t come cheap. Etc etc etc. Those are all things that have been done which have cost money that we don’t even have. Those are all things that have a much more ACTUAL and REAL impact on the economy, as far as hurting it.
  
  But hey keep regurgitating the same BS over and over again. Didn’t I tell you I’d say the same thing in response? The money people don’t use on one thing is money they use on something else, so either way, the economy continues on and that money goes into it. On a personal note, gosh. I just can’t wait to repeat myself again. In a day or so when you say the same idiotic comment you’ve been using for who knows how long now in regards to “hurting the economy”.
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Rekrul

I predict that uTorrent will go the way of DivX and Nero (yes, I know Nero was never free). They both started out as popular programs, but over the years they got bigger and more bloated, and in the case of DivX, more commercialized, to the point where most people either actively dislike them now, or they use the older versions. There will always bee people that but it and use it, but it will gain a stigma that will turn off a lot of people.
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danjoe

@Rekrul,
I agree totalmente of what you said.
A lot of good aplictions grew and were vanished, too complicate, or things you don’t need.
Simpler application, for one purpose only. µTorrent I predict you a bad future if they complicate it.
Riley Freeman

99.5 Million for the MPAA to worry about then
- Riley Freeman
  
  99.5 Million pirates*
http://www.facebook.com/people/Freeda-Weed/100001728244194 Freeda Weed

I’m quite comfortable with 2.85 thank you.
Caveman

still using utorrent 2.2.1 here. utorrent 3 sucks big time
Guest

“the much-hyped social network Twitter”

I’m liking Torrentfreak more and more.
- Grammar_Queen
  
  You [b]are[/b]aware that ‘much-hyped’ does not equate to ‘over-hyped’ & is in no way a disparagement..?
None

All it needs now is a micro/lite version that only has the core features. Then I might upgrade to a more recent version think I’m still using 1.8.x

I don’t need all the junk included in novice user versions

Hate bloat
Johnnyzing78

best to use vuze http://www.vuze.com/
- VuzeIsForDildoes
  
  Best to stfu, weiner….
Anonymous

Amazing, uTorrent really is just cool like that. Wow.
anon-tools.int.tc
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Anonymous

I use µTorrent, but I’d wish they came up with a lite version..
- MuEqualsMicro
  
  Cannot tell if trole or st00pid.
  - Anonymous
    
    Ugh. None of them. I just like lite versions of bloated software…
    
    Verstuurd vanaf mijn HTC Wildfire
    Op 19 aug. 2011 01:23 schreef “Disqus”
    het volgende:
  - Anonymous
    
    Ugh. None of them. I just like lite versions of bloated software…
    
    Verstuurd vanaf mijn HTC Wildfire
    Op 19 aug. 2011 01:23 schreef “Disqus”
    het volgende:
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Who needs a name?

Wise Men know that strength is not always in numbers, but in this case it has to be, the RIAA and MPAA CANNOT fight back against hundreds of millions of people, let the whole world start pirating, they will be overwhelmed and they know there is nothing they can do to stop it, it’s just a waste of manpower, resources and money, instead of wasting all of this time and money on fightnig piracy why don’t you feed hungry children in Africa or something… -_- One of the biggest problem with this world is that nobody knows how to wisely spend money, Americas debt is now over 13 trillion dollars, that money could fucking feed the entire world a few times over, and instead they blow it on wars and crap that nobody even needs. Fuck all the governments, i rather die than join them.
- Class_War
  
  Not only feed them but clothe, house & educate the entire world many, many times over.
  
  25 THOUSAND CHILDREN DIE EVERY FUCKING DAY!
  
  As long as we let a few egotistical nutters hose up the global wealth for their personal epeen, this is how it’ll be.
  
  Gimme an AK and a balaclava & I’m with you, brother. Don’t consider death versus joining them – consider bullets in their evil, mammon-worshipping heads.
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Annon

Still rocking 1.0.3 , patiently waiting for a mac uTorrent update :D
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Sparkes

A bittorrent use the same engine as utorrent.They are both low on cpu.
- Abittorrentusethesameengine
  
  …and in English?
DocGerbil100

Congratulations to BT Inc and the µTorrent devs on getting the user-base up to 100 million. :)

On the hassles with version 3: I wish I could argue, but as much as I’m generally a big fan of the client, I can’t say it’s been much fun.

Slightly increased usability aside, most of the new features all seem to be aimed at novices and are of very limited use – or even of no use at all – for experienced users. The comments system just looks like a waste of code – I had it running for a few days and while I saw plenty of 3.0 users and a few people did use the torrent-ratings, absolutely no-one at all seemed to be using comments.

Streaming via BT is one of the few things that does have real potential, but I find it to be much too limited at the moment – it really needs to have its own codec-like sub-protocol so we can control it properly in external players.

The latest version doesn’t seem behave itself well for a lot of users – even with all the new features turned off, on my older 2GHz machine, it struggles at the best of times and completely hammers the CPU every time it runs into any kind of tracker-error. I’ve no idea why. I’ve ended up having to stop 80% of the open torrents I was seeding to keep it from overloading my system, which clearly isn’t good.

Aesthetically, I’m not happy with it at all: all-flat colours and snot green just isn’t a nice colour to hang an interface on – I cannot comprehend what kind of focus group would think it was (or why BT Inc thought directing users to a dev-page on skinning was a fit-for-purpose answer to customer complaints).

On the whole, µTorrent 3 has badly disappointed me – I would say I hope the next version is better, except the next version is likely to be µT+. :/

I hope the devs will (at some point) be allowed to concentrate on making it good for all of us again and not just superficially appealing for new users. :)
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>2011
>not using Tixati / qBittorent / rTorrent / Deluge / Transmission /
>i seriously hope you guys don’t do this
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