Comments on: uTorrent Grows to 28 Million Monthly Users

By: Dingo_RG

Dingo_RG — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 05:19:00 +0000

DUckie;

No. I have not the remedy for your stupidity and total lack of seriousness in your responses.

By: Dingo_RG

Dingo_RG — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 05:16:29 +0000

steven;

Your response suggests that any valuable experience from any independent worker who is not linked to any corporation or organization is not valid.

If that is your way of thinking (as this seems to be), then, this is, from any point of view; having a very short vision.

Also, you deny the obvious; that in the actual world, the corporations lie all the time, according to the convenience of the situation.

Good luck for you idiot, believing blindly, without corroboration; any nonsense that corporations say.

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By: JOHN

JOHN — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 03:38:02 +0000

IS ANYONE ONLINE ??

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uTorrent conta com 28 milhões de utilizadores únicos | Remixtures — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 15:45:34 +0000

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By: NeonFire

NeonFire — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 11:50:37 +0000

Do you really think if uTorrent was phoning home with any sensitive information that someone would not have discovered it by now and that news would spread across the internet like wildfire?

I can name a lot of software that automatically checks for updates. It can be turned off as well if you don't want uTorrent to make any outside contact.

By: NeonFire

NeonFire — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 11:48:29 +0000

Are you virginal, basement dwelling and anti-social as well? If not, why are you on this blog with all the other file sharers?

By: NeonFire

NeonFire — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 11:47:33 +0000

I think uTorrent is the best client hands-down. It has a very small footprint (uses a low amount of resources when running and only 250KB to download, some .torrent files are larger than that), it has many features like labels and scheduler which I find very useful, it's supported and recommended by pretty much every private tracker on the internet, it's now available in beta for Mac, everything about it is great.

I'm not so happy about the Bittorrent Inc. acquisition and what could come of that in the future, but that's another thought for another day.

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Sat, 27 Dec 2008 09:16:52 +0000

[...] es, por lejos, el mejor cliente de BitTorrent que existe. Y justamente por ese motivo la cantidad de usuarios el año pasado se dobló y en el 2008 continuó creciendo hasta alcanzar los 28 [...]

By: EZEE

EZEE — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 08:42:54 +0000

Never really used transmission, but have mostly Mac guys praise it.. anything in particular you like about it?

I know what you mean about watching the pieces fill up, its like you are watching something being built or… screwing the mafiaa.. one piece at a time :))

By: Tim

Tim — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 08:30:51 +0000

Actually, it's a bit buggy and lacking in features. It's definitely a beta. The Windows client is more sophisticated, and the Mac version doesn't even have an advanced settings page. The pieces view is also missing, which is a small thing, but it was something I liked because it was fun to watch the last piece of a file come through, or watch pieces fill up quickly when the speed is very fast. Even more worrying is that an ipfilter file cannot be loaded (the file is in the settings folder, but there's no way to activate it) and OSX's Peer Guardian program sucks.

Still, it's a clean, fast torrent client for OSX in the spirit of the original uTorrent. I imagine they'll be more or less identical by version 1.0. For now, I'm sticking with Transmission.

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By: magic_pants

magic_pants — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 02:16:35 +0000

Actually, I can understand that only 5% of Internet users use BitTorrent. Most of the P2P users I know in RL use Limewire. I guess that's not a very scientific form of study, but there are other things out there than BitTorrent.

By: DUckie

DUckie — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 01:28:34 +0000

Lol a whole 4 years! Can you fix mine?!

By: steven

steven — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 01:18:35 +0000

4 years of doing "regular technical service", one would think you would have a more firm grasp of the way statistics work.

(Note: Realistically, there is no correlation between one's experience in technical service and said person's grasp of statistics. I made it up to prove a silly point: You sir are a dumbass.)

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uTorrent tiene 28 millones de usuarios al mes - MadBoxpc.com — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 16:27:23 +0000

[...] cliente Bittorrent favorito (que hace poco lanzó su cliente para Mac), uTorrent, ha alcanzado la impactante cantidad de 28.000.000 de usuarios mensuales. Un reporte de abril de 2008 cuantifica las instalaciones de uTorrent a lo largo y ancho del [...]

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El uTorrent ya tiene 28 millones de usuarios únicos — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 15:56:16 +0000

By: EZEE

EZEE — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 12:47:58 +0000

Actually, I heard some fanbois gripeing about it a little while back… was just wondering if that had changed..

On the other hand, they could be a bit mad because Steve Jobs didnt baptize it or officially give it his blessings :))

By: Photography

Photography — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 12:36:24 +0000

I was so happy when they released a Mac client

By: qbert

qbert — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 12:08:56 +0000

its an update check. you can disable it. just uncheck the box in the preferences.

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The Technology Blog: uTorrent Grows to 28 Million Monthly Users — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 11:06:14 +0000

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Fri, 26 Dec 2008 10:35:08 +0000

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By: Mike_Dallos

Mike_Dallos — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 08:26:12 +0000

UTorrent works so well on my Vista Box!!

By: Nols

Nols — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 08:24:30 +0000

Those numbers sound highly suspect to me, and several fold larger than any numbers I've heard. The Mainline client is a full 1/4 the size of utorrent? The 2nd most popular client out there? That's total BS! All the torrents I've ever seen are dominated by utorrent and Azureus peers. If that number were true, then the other smaller clients (transmission, ktorrent, etc) would have monthly users measuring in the tens of millions, which is definitely not the case. Sounds to me like bittorrent inc is trying to win some good press after their recent string of bad news.

By: ama_ding

ama_ding — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 07:49:04 +0000

lol what about azureus? good old azureus:s does anyone still use that? if utorrent got a 60% share and mainline is even bigger, dang i must be the only dinosaur torrentuser still having azu installed :/

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By: Anonnnn

Anonnnn — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 05:28:22 +0000

lol
Vuze still can't rename incomplete download (in progress) to other extension as utorrent does (.!ut) That's the only reason i dont use vuze…
all other customizable features are useless to general torrenting…

By: Dingo_RG

Dingo_RG — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 05:14:24 +0000

"Not everyone that file shares uses bit torrent"

@Jacob

Right, but 5% is a very conservative number for BitTorrent. I can assure to you, that in the four years that I've been working as computer technician, I can conclude that in general around 70% of my personal clients (that are many) have been (and are) active BitTorrent users.

If you don't believe me, you can ask to any independent computer technician (with many time of experience) of confidence that you know. He will say something similar to this.

By: Matheus

Matheus — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 04:16:41 +0000

That's nearly thrice the population of Portugal.

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nerdd.net | news and opinion — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 03:57:47 +0000

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By: GOD part 2

GOD part 2 — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 03:48:35 +0000

hrm and a lot of linux users use ktorrent or rtorrent which actually is more robust and a better client then utorrent. Especially on linux.

By: GOD

GOD — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 03:45:36 +0000

hrm data in canada showed that in 2005 sept , 5.4 million users were doing forms of p2p , a few months later in 2006 by march that number was 9.8 million, do you think that with 20 million internet accounts that number is less or more today?

Just cause the KwonG sounds more like benGay doesn't mean your a flamin homo …or does it

By: Jacob

Jacob — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 03:41:53 +0000

Not everyone that file shares uses bit torrent, and if 5% of all users on the internet use bit torrent then imagine how many people use other file sharing programs and or share files in a way that does not involve the internet. If you added all those file sharers together you might get a large percentage of the people.

P.S Roze I used my grammar skills this time after those comments saying that they where lame.

By: Roze

Roze — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 03:33:45 +0000

Indeed, something like that. However, the U.S. Pirate Party has yet become an official political party. And I was thinking of something more like the Piratbyran.

By: Roze

Roze — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 03:33:34 +0000

Indeed, something like that. However, the U.S. Pirate Party has yet become an official pirate party. And I was thinking of something more like the Piratbyran.

By: Dingo_RG

Dingo_RG — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 03:28:28 +0000

Yes, it does. Considering that I have more than 4 years doing regularly technical service to PCs for companies.

A hint for you NubCakes: when there is not anything good to say it is better to have your mouth quiet.

By: bob

bob — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 03:20:06 +0000

The fact its been mentioned on Digg a several times in comments I think is what has helped it. I just barely started using it myself. I normally just use shareaza, but with uTorrent I can tell it not to grab some files inside the torrent that I might not want, which is very helpful.

By: KwonG

KwonG — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 03:11:04 +0000

So you're the exception?

By: rkms

rkms — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 02:53:14 +0000

It is a pity they don't plan to release a Linux version.

By: ---

--- — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 02:52:26 +0000

utorrent didn't always have translations
back then asian people started to use bitcomet and it's still pretty much the most used client there (based on what i've seen on other trackers and that people usually adapt to new things slowly)

By: ju

ju — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 02:50:37 +0000

i still use azureus, but i nearly changed clients when they introduced that vuze bullshit. then i realised you could turn it off, so to me (as long as that shitty memory wasting interface is turned off) its always gonna be azureus 2.5

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 02:47:43 +0000

Cliens you are connected to aren't a good indication of all. Some clients use different PEX or DHT protocols. Also, a torrent of a Linux distro may have very different user profile than the latest PC FPS.

Btw. The stats about Mainline being second were from PC Pitstop – not from BT inc.

By: Roze

Roze — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 02:36:13 +0000

Most BitTorrent users are not, in fact, virginal, basement dwelling, anti-social losers, just as how most Internet users are not as such.

By: KwonG

KwonG — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 02:25:24 +0000

"Each person that I know (who owns a computer with internet) uses BitTorrent."

Each person you know probably jacks off to hentai too. Just because your friends are virginal, basement dwelling, anti-social losers doesn't mean they are a majority in the world…

By: NubCakes

NubCakes — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 02:24:37 +0000

If your stupid enough to worry about a widely used freeware client that checks for updates as an invasion of privacy that is…

By: NubCakes

NubCakes — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 02:23:51 +0000

Well, got news for you: Vuze/Azureus has exactly the same type of "client check-in" (check for update in non-FUD terms) as Utorrent + Java also does the same thing so your privacy has been screwed twice as much.

If your stupid enough to worry about a widely used freeware client that checks for updates as an invasion of privacy that is…

By: NubCakes

NubCakes — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 02:20:19 +0000

So you know nothing of Chinese trackers but somehow you know that most people are using non-utorrent clients? How – on what basis are you saying this?

By: NubCakes

NubCakes — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 02:17:48 +0000