The New Improvements of uTorrent 2.0 (Final)

[kukushka]

oh, smth's been posted here

[anon]

It looks like the development team of uTorrent has implemented a new feature into the 2.0 client that is considered "unethical" by us, as well as many other BT sites. This feature causes uT 2.0 to prefer uT 2.0 over any other client out there

"It looks"? Meaning they aren't even sure what they're saying is true?

[pro267]

"It looks" is a figure of speech. Obviously they're sure, otherwise there wouldn't be any discussions with the uT dev team.

[anon]

Obviously they're sure, otherwise there wouldn't be any discussions with the uT dev team.

Maybe they only suspect v2.0's favoritism behavior exists and are checking it with the uTorrent development team.

Personally, I seriously doubt the new version is giving preference to others of its same kind.

[AdrianPhoto]

I've personally tested uTorrent 2.0, and since 1.8 I've been interested in uTP, and version after version, build after build I see no change in the performance regarding/concerning private trackers in terms of ratio stuff.
I guess I'm gonna stand with anon-sbi on this

[ggsir]

uTorrent is pretty awesome. have been using this since i started using PT

[pro267]

God help us with all those uT fanboys.

I wonder whether they would still be such fanboys if they knew about uT history, specifically the callback function the uT dev team has added to uT a couple of years ago (after they were bought by a company associated with the MPAA), causing the client to secretly report all your torrent activity to them, then seeing how the uT dev team reps denied it until the (same) BT community forced them to admit it.

[lysine]

causing the client to secretly report all your torrent activity to them, then seeing how the uT dev team reps denied it until the (same) BT community forced them to admit it.

lol, please give us a link where that happened. exactly, you're just making up stuff and spreading FUD now...

[ExtraDry]

causing the client to secretly report all your torrent activity to them, then seeing how the uT dev team reps denied it until the (same) BT community forced them to admit it.

lol, please give us a link where that happened. exactly, you're just making up stuff and spreading FUD now...

That was the case but the mpaa contract is over pretty sure it was a one year deal could be wrong

http://libcom.org/forums/news/utorrent-bought-mpaa

http://gigaom.com/2006/12/12/utorren...ttorrent-deal/

Plenty of articles about it

Far as reporting stuff back to mpaa that was not true tests were taken out no leaking data

What was true was utorrent scare tactic's to get everyone to update from there 1.6 and 1.6.1 builds to 1.7.7 and 1.8.* builds, by telling us that there was a exploit in those builds was not true.

[IdolEyes787]

aha.

"Announcement: Using uTorrent 2.0+ This is a preliminary warning to all our members, who are currently using, or are thinking about switching to uTorrent 2.0 or later. It looks like the development team of uTorrent has implemented a new feature into the 2.0 client that is considered "unethical" by us, as well as many other BT sites. This feature causes uT 2.0 to prefer uT 2.0 over any other client out there, giving users of that client what is considered to be an unfair advantage in seeding. A somewhat similar behavior by another client, BitComet, in the past, had resulted in that client being banned from pretty much every private site in existence.

Communication between representatives of the BT community and the uTorrent development team is undergoing, however at this stage the problem was not resolved yet. As a result, multiple private sites have already banned this client, and many others are likely to follow in the very near future. We are one of the sites who are seriously considering banning usage of this client.

With this announcement, we would like to both inform our members about this possible outcome, encourage those who haven't upgraded yet to refrain from doing so for now, and strongly recommend to those who have already upgraded to downgrade to earlier versions...."

announcement at some tracker

Trackers are going to start discriminating because some people have an unfair advantage in seeding over others. Good one.