Comments on: BitTorrent, uTorrent, team up

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 12:19:49 +0000

do you people know anything about open source? have you ever contributed to an open source project? there are never more than a few people (that actually contribute code)… its HARD work that you schlebs know nothing about… other than it gets you free lost episodes

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Fri, 08 Dec 2006 22:56:41 +0000

Realease the freakin’ source already.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Fri, 08 Dec 2006 15:05:35 +0000

As if the corporate world has any use for p2p stuff beyond mere branding (to get the sheeple in the door.) These days, web servers and gigantic blocks of bandwidth are dirt dirt dirt cheap, which is why corporate download sites don’t need to use any sort of p2p.

This utorrent people probably had a gun aimed at their head and a fistful of cash when going into this deal. ‘Sell out or get sued’ is the usual M.O. for the corporate media monopoly.

And it’s not like utorrent is much of a program anyways. It would be trivial for a single C++ programmer to reproduce such software within a period of a few months.

And besides, it’s not open-source anyways, so what kind of fool would trust that software to begin with.

The bit-torrent technology is quickly becoming outdated anyways. Many many many people are working on the next generation of file-sharing that uses network-coding, a concept that utilizes linear systems of equations and finite-field mathematics for a much more efficient flow of data.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Fri, 08 Dec 2006 05:34:47 +0000

A shame, really, but I didn’t like µTorrent that much anyway because it’s closed source. I prefer using Open Source as much as possible, because I really like it’s idea and how it creates tons of new innovative software, games etc.

But think about the positive side of this sell-out, as one may call it: there will be a huge mass of former µTorrent users looking for alternative torrent clients to suti their needs. All it means is more developement and I like it.

µTorrent simply grew too big and it wasn’t Open Source, that’s the problem

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Fri, 08 Dec 2006 05:16:18 +0000

Expect the next version of microtorrent to have some sort of tattletail in it. The Kazaa ploy as a source of sue em all has about played out its hand. With victims that are fighting back with charges of RICO and that the Kazaa suit settled all terms of the sue em all, they now need a new source of info. Heaven help those that get the next update and think they got something worth sharing.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Fri, 08 Dec 2006 04:55:07 +0000

Hollywood has it’s hooks into BitTorrent already. Buy default, uTorrent will live under the same evil dark cloud of “legitimacy”. Too bad.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Fri, 08 Dec 2006 01:04:19 +0000

this is wrong and those who know me know why [http://www.p2pnet.net/story/7125]