Comments on: uTorrent Expands, Launches Apps and Labs

By: uTorrent ‘Web’ Opens Up to the Public @ blog.idtorrent.org

uTorrent ‘Web’ Opens Up to the Public @ blog.idtorrent.org — Tue, 25 May 2010 22:00:52 +0000

[...] with Griffin and Pheon, the Falcon project is part of the recently announced uTorrent Labs. With Labs the development team is giving users early access to their latest projects, hoping to [...]

By: uTorrent ‘Web’ Opens Up to the Public | Downloads and News

uTorrent ‘Web’ Opens Up to the Public | Downloads and News — Mon, 24 May 2010 00:28:27 +0000

[...] with Griffin and Pheon, the Falcon project is part of the recently announced uTorrent Labs. With Labs the development team is giving users early access to their latest projects, hoping to [...]

By: uTorrent ‘Web’ Opens Up to the Public | We R Pirates

uTorrent ‘Web’ Opens Up to the Public | We R Pirates — Sun, 23 May 2010 12:00:16 +0000

[...] with Griffin and Pheon, the Falcon project is part of the recently announced uTorrent Labs. With Labs the development team is giving users early access to their latest projects, hoping to [...]

By: uTorrent ‘Web’ Opens Up to the Public « BloodStudios.com - Indexing RSS Feeds

Sun, 23 May 2010 10:58:57 +0000

[...] with Griffin and Pheon, the Falcon project is part of the recently announced uTorrent Labs. With Labs the development team is giving users early access to their latest projects, hoping to [...]

By: uTorrent Griffin Adds Extension-Style Functionality (Like Virus Scanning) [Downloads] | News Update

Tue, 18 May 2010 20:30:18 +0000

[...] Project Griffin [uTorrent via TorrentFreak] [...]

By: Tweedle Dee Dumb

Tweedle Dee Dumb — Tue, 18 May 2010 03:16:46 +0000

Plugins? OH NOES! Now uTorrent will be a massively bloated pile of useless garbage! THE WORLD IS COMING TO AN END!!!

Whats that you say? I don’t have to actually use any plugins if I don’t want to? Um, please disregard my original comment then.

PS: Zero issues with uTorrent 2.x here. Even the bandwidth management option works fine.

By: uTorrent se actualiza a la versión 2.0.2 estable | MadBoxpc.com

uTorrent se actualiza a la versión 2.0.2 estable | MadBoxpc.com — Mon, 17 May 2010 20:01:55 +0000

[...] los clientes de BitTorrent más populares y eficientes de la red que y hace algunos días lanzo su propia tienda de aplicaciones, ahora sus desarrolladores han actualizado el cliente del mismo nombre a la versión 2.0.2, la cual [...]

By: Des extensions pour µTorrent « Journal du Hack

Des extensions pour µTorrent « Journal du Hack — Mon, 17 May 2010 16:11:13 +0000

[...] sources: Korben & TorrentFreaks [...]

By: Extensions µTorrent

Extensions µTorrent — Mon, 17 May 2010 08:34:09 +0000

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By: Whatever

Whatever — Mon, 17 May 2010 07:39:41 +0000

Streaming and remote control might actually be usefull. They could have integrated those 2 features because an addon system has serious problems if it allows code to be executed (Exception are program specific scripts that have no commands to actually do anything outside their own enviroment). It is just an additional security hazard, makes the main program needlessly bigger/slower (like Nero which has plenty of alternatives).

In the picture the 2 examples are possibly the most useless purposes of this addon system.

1. Virus scanner: This is as useless as a so called E-mail scanner (just made for marketing like the term PMPO for speakers). If one already has an ‘active’ scanner it will stop any known virus from trying to execute (from E-mail or here from torrent)

2. Games: why would one want to launch games through the torrent client (probably ends up being a flashgame in a browser anyhow).

(Whats next, paint or office programs from within uTorrent? It should then be called uShell, uLauncher or uSkin)