It realeased its stable version recently..worth a try!

If you actually read the article, then you would see that uTorrent will still be a ‘small lightweight’ program.
The plug ins are OPTIONAL. In case you were wondering, OPTIONAL means that you can choose whether or not you want any plug ins. In fact, unless you only have a P4 and 1gb RAM, you won’t see a significant speed difference between utorrent 1.8 or Vuze. They both work lightning fast.

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I found turning off the “Enable bandwith management” option returned my normal speeds in verion 2.

If they would just release the source, a lot of people would make a C++ version because they sure aren’t.

Can you say “bloatware”? :D

just disable uTP, that’s the main cause of slow downloads in 2.0+ versions, the rest is just placebo.

BUT, I’m curious how “streaming” torrents will affect swarms….to “stream” the client would have to download the torrents “sequentially” (that being, in order, from beginning to end) – I’ve heard this is actually “bad” for the swarm….since you can have a large swarm of peers, with only the 1st half of a torrent for example….the “primary seed” drops off, and nobody gets anywhere :P

And yea, removing the peer list won’t do anything…..these antip2p groups aren’t using peer list, they are using netstat to track exactly what connections they “hit”…

#5 – Bloatware is not on the development plan at all – on the contrary, the dev team is agonizing over adding 5Kb increments to the client to support apps. small, fast, stable are the goals.

#7, #15 Vuse simply doesn’t support the BitTorrent community, writes incompatible protocols, hides the torrents, etc. no comparison.

#10, #12, #21 – remember TFA covers ALPHA releases – so lots of features are under active development, testing and release for feedback. when a crash does happen, opt-in log reporting collects the exact reason for bugs, and they are used for making the client smaller, faster, and more stable.

and who cares about streaming…they just take the sites down anyways, and i have to use bandwidth EACH time i want to view….GOTO CANADA with crappy low caps and throttling….you will see what i mean

And by removing the “peer”-tab doesn’t protect the users in ANY way!!!

Not just because it’s extra cost but because VPNs have a limited future, evasion partly relies on governments not cooperating (and corporations never being multi-national).

Even if logging doesn’t occur on the VPN… don’t think that you’re completely under the radar… your outbound TCP packets include the VPNs IP address in the packet headers… and recording this information alone doesn’t create a massive data footprint (like logging all transaction data would)

If you are effectively a VPN for other nodes and vice versa – and if packets are re-encrypted by each node it becomes nearly impossible to differentiate between your actions and your function as a service provider (providing a secure transfer service for packets of data that you, as carrier or “mere conduit”, know absolutely nothing about.)

VPNs are okay for now, but peer-proxying, maybe even peer-proxy-chains.. will probably become necessary in the future.

If you _really_ think anti-copyright companies need the utorrent peers tab (I doubt they even use utorrent) to track people sharing stuff with bittorent, then it just means you just don’t know how the internet works.

Removing the peers tab would not make it a bit safer to download stuff. Even with a simple cmd command (netstat) you can easily see the connections your PC is making.