Comments on: uTorrent Opens Up Apps, Starts Developer Challenge

By: Pulsed Media

Pulsed Media — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 18:16:15 +0000

I am wondering how this would relate to seedbox business, and what kinds of apps does this spur. Might we see soon seedbox services working like rTorrent offers, and as lightweight.

Or maybe control like with TFlux based offerings so a lower price point can be met.

By: cajones

cajones — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 01:48:25 +0000

Hey maybe they will actually have a half-way decent Mac client now!

By: Elite Born Metro Type

Elite Born Metro Type — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 17:36:54 +0000

Apps will not bloat uTorrent. Ironically, its just te opposite,
Apps are rolling out to keep uTorrent small, but offer many
optional, open source features shared in the community.
BitTorrent just posted a blog explaining:
http://blog.bittorrent.com/2010/07/14/reflections-on-apps/

@1 uMap – its in the Griffin alpha now

@7 Why is this useful? See the blog post above.

@10 Great idea! please submit an app, and get into the forum and
the IRC and people will help you make it happen.

@12 the SDK is just javascript.
see http://btapps-sdk.bittorrent.com/doc/api.html

@18 it already does.

@20 access to peers ip and %complete are an integral part of the
BitTorrent protocol. Anyone that wants to can code a
solution that talks to any other node in any way they want.
If you “block all the leechers while keeping the seeders”
this will not help your download experience – it will have
the exact same effect as setting your upload bandwidth to zero.
if you are concerned about number of TCP connections and congestion,
uTP fixes this.

@25, no, @20 is not correct.

@26 Great idea! please submit an app, and get into the forum and
the IRC and people will help you make it happen.

#35 the SDK is writting in Python, which run on all modern OS The
reason to support Windows is the first apps-enabled client
will come out on Windows. All the tools for app building
will work on linux and osx. the MSI is really just a
convenience wrapper for windows people, the actual SDK is on
Github and you can check it out anywhere.

@37 there is no cygwin development environment for the SDK.
Using cygwin simply makes the dev tools work better on
Windows.

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By: Cujo

Cujo — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 18:30:17 +0000

vpn.btapp ,, surely would win lol

By: MoTo

MoTo — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 12:47:49 +0000

Tiny little process…bye bye

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 10:01:37 +0000

App means application. Weird terminology!

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By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 00:05:47 +0000

This is not bloatware, it’s optional to download.

By: Luis Arqueros

Luis Arqueros — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 21:16:18 +0000

We´ve an interesting oportunity to develop an improve in the original software that can help us to do the usuary experience more satisfied.

By: in.cog.nito

in.cog.nito — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 18:27:31 +0000

@39 QuadSlacker1313

Eat a dick. Nothing you have can’t be found on a public or private tracker.

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Tue, 13 Jul 2010 16:08:07 +0000

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By: old timer

old timer — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 14:41:59 +0000

SHIT!

prepare for MASSIVE cheating, and the beginning of the end of torrenting…

trackers will not be able to keep up with the piles of poorly coded plugins coming- both official and unofficial…
doomdoomdoom….

By: jkl

jkl — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 13:13:16 +0000

Everyone on the bloat.

By: someone

someone — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 11:02:24 +0000

great now you can tweet and like things right from utorrent and share what you are downloading as facebook status. and in addition to that set rotating background pictures for utorrent and sound effects.

seriously who needs apps? just make a simple, lightwegth torrent program and make it work well.

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Tue, 13 Jul 2010 10:15:28 +0000

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BitTorrent Releases uTorrent SDK, Starts App Challenge | Systema — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 07:59:06 +0000

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By: SoDeMaCome

SoDeMaCome — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 07:37:23 +0000

I like the seedbox ip blocking plugin.

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By: QuadSlacker1313

QuadSlacker1313 — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 06:36:33 +0000

I ban all uTorrent ips.

Sharing 100,000 copyrighted files and counting.

Fuck you, idiots, for all your arrogance.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 05:37:44 +0000

Maybe an app to reverse check that your real IP is not showing up anywhere…
something to test a ping or a traceroute onto yourself.
I can see it only be a security check, but not a real security improvement by itself.

By: expert01

expert01 — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 04:59:50 +0000

I agree – What the hell were they thinking? Why in god’s name would they have a full cygwin development environment for an HTML/JS based app?

This is retarded. I could make a batch script in under 100 lines (being generous) that would download the same files off their server and package them up into a compressed file using 7z (just like extensions for other web content systems, like the MS sidebar or Firefox, are archives (zip?) containing some HTML and misc. ascii files).

By: 5318008

5318008 — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 04:43:37 +0000

@27 sorry, didn’t even look at default apps, just went straight for the obvious troll.

After all, what apps platform is complete without a Tetris port?

I guess they got us covered right out of the box. Sweet.

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By: R

Tue, 13 Jul 2010 02:43:03 +0000

The idea is awesome, but the implementation of the SDK is retarded.
First of all, they’re using a Linux-based SDK for a program that doesn’t even have a native Linux client (yet). They should have just gone with a Linux virtual machine instead of Cygwin, since Cygwin can be a real pain to get working properly, but a virtual machine is as simple as starting an application. You can’t even use it on Linux because the they packaged it as an MSI.

Oh, and I doubt that all the apps will be pure HTML+Javascript – there will definitely be some apps that are just a wrapper/interface layer for exes that do performance-sensitive stuff like converting videos.

By: Kaptain Krunch

Kaptain Krunch — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 02:41:45 +0000

$1000 bucks to the first app that can blow up the mafia!

By: james brown

james brown — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 02:25:22 +0000

This is awesome. It would be great to have even more control of your torrent client and be able to do stuff like auto download, auto upload, mass search, and so many other different things that im sure will be developed

http://www.seed-bytes.com/signup.php

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 02:08:05 +0000

I say go for it. Make a peer map and other peer tracking apps. Hopefully this will finally kill uTorrent’s popularity.

By: Gaval Johansen

Gaval Johansen — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 01:10:31 +0000

uTorrent is da bomb dude, plain and simple.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 01:04:09 +0000

This is the response I got on the utorrent forum:
http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?pid=497642#p497642

By: Harry

Harry — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 00:58:13 +0000

Here is an app that I want:
I tell him where I keep my movies
I tell him where I keep my finished torrent files
On demand, in background, the app will do : scan and compute the hashes of all my unidentified movie files, compare with the hashes in the finished torrent folder, and reseed the movies that I downloaded and that I moved or renamed (for my clarity) and which had been deseeded because of move/renaming.

Without this, I am mostly a leecher because I need to move the files to another disk after finished.

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In Other News — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 00:21:45 +0000

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By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 00:19:22 +0000

@18 It already runs “Tetris”, check out the “Tetronimoes” app.

By: nonW00t

nonW00t — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 00:18:06 +0000

An auto ip blacklist updater would be best use of this disaster waiting to happen. LOL

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By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 23:44:23 +0000

@20 are you sure about this?

By: theamp

theamp — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 23:31:43 +0000

You guys are retarded. If you don’t want the app, don’t install the app.

By: Spind

Spind — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 22:57:20 +0000

i just hope that those apps will be an optional thing… not like Vuze (why on earth do i need a Vuze player?? when i have KMPlayer)

By: X

Mon, 12 Jul 2010 22:47:49 +0000

As with what everone else said if you don’t want utorrent to become bloated just don’t download the apps.

Utorrent is a great program but its only drawbacks have been the lack of extra features. Useful extra features that is.

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By: Torin050

Torin050 — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 22:35:28 +0000

@2 Another one? Did you not read all the other articles. You don’t bloody need to download the apps. Hell you can stay on 2.0 if you want and not even have the ability.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 22:20:49 +0000

There’s a huge flaw with the API provided. We can fetch all the peers of a torrent automatically, making possible to block all the leechers while keeping the seeders with some external firewall filter script. This bt-apps API is bloated in every way and will soon result in some really bad sh*t for everyone.

By: Danny

Danny — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 22:19:26 +0000

@17 Thanks for the info!

By: 5318008

5318008 — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 22:09:01 +0000

Will it run Tetris?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 22:07:28 +0000

@Danny: It won’t really be much harder to code for uTorrent, as I believe it says on their website JavaScript and web technologies are used to make the addons. $1000 actually seems very generous to me for a BitTorrent client addon. If you are to get paid $50 per hour, that’s 20 hours worth of work – assuming you actually work for that long by yourself. $1000 is the type of money freelancers would be looking at to build whole websites.

“Apps” consist only of HTML and Javascript packaged together and displayed using an embedded browser window after being added to the client.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 21:58:40 +0000

Bells and whistles.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 21:58:17 +0000

Can’t believe the amount of idiots complaining that uTorrent will become bloated. I’m no genius but err… you don’t have to download any apps if you don’t want to? Idiots.

As if it’s going to become a memory hog simply because they released the SDK.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 21:54:08 +0000

ratio cheat app?