The New Improvements of uTorrent 2.0 (Final)

[Rart]

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

Well obviously this isn't something you can pay an exorbitant monthly fee to get out of...

[AdrianPhoto]

I like uTorrent for many things, call me fanboy or whatever

causing the client to secretly report all your torrent activity to them

Would you be please tell me the Version and the Build so I can test it..
Now let's see who's gonna run..

Edit: Btw, the deal was announced "December 7, 2006", so that would be between 1.5 - 1.7

[anon]

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

It's easy to remove them (or at least most of them) by unpacking the executable and using a hex-editor. so I'm still using it

[ExtraDry]

I like uTorrent for many things, call me fanboy or whatever

causing the client to secretly report all your torrent activity to them

Would you be please tell me the Version and the Build so I can test it..
Now let's see who's gonna run..

Edit: Btw, the deal was announced "December 7, 2006", so that would be between 1.5 - 1.7

1.7.7 was the first release that the mpaa venture with utorrent was built and didn't phone home any packets.Nor did the 1.8.# builds.

This still was a very dark time in utorrent history,
with many peeps opting for other clients.It was a pity such clients as Halite didn't step up as utorrent would have lost a lot more peeps.

anon-sbi proof of the new ut2 build favoring its own will come to light when uppers when you see ut2 being the upper(only seeder) on a box it will give to other ut2 clients others clients will find it hard to connect to the seeder and other ut2 peers.
Not sure how to give you your proof, but get someone to connect on a linux box rtorrent or transmission under those conditions and see how you go.

[anon]

This still was a very dark time in utorrent history,
with many peeps opting for other clients.It was a pity such clients as Halite didn't step up as utorrent would have lost a lot more peeps.

Agreed. Halite is the great, fast and lightweight client no one seems to use.

anon-sbi proof of the new ut2 build favoring its own will come to light when uppers when you see ut2 being the upper(only seeder) on a box it will give to other ut2 clients others clients will find it hard to connect to the seeder and other ut2 peers.
Not sure how to give you your proof, but get someone to connect on a linux box rtorrent or transmission under those conditions and see how you go.

If you have access to a seedbox running uT 2.0 I guess you could send me an screenshot of a peerlist when uTorrent favors others of its kind. Of course, to be 100% sure I'd need to check it out myself, and I don't have a box

[pro267]

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

Here are just a couple of points for you:

* uTorrent was purchased by bittorrent.com, a site affiliated with the MPAA. Google it to check for yourself.
* Try installing uT 1.7, enable DHT, and wireshark for bittorrent.com IPs (I suggest: 67.215.242.138-9, 38.114.167.69, 208.72.193.198) to see what's the bootstrap entry point for their mainline DHT tracker implementation.

The above means BitTorrrent.com (read: MPAA) has access to your torrents' info hash, i.e. pretty much a 1:1 correlation between IPs and downloaded torrent files.

[Tokeman]

Too bad DHT is not allowed on private tracker torrents, so its a non issue for most of us. If your using public trackers and DHT then they can already see everything you do anyway, so who cares.

[anoneemuse]

sweet , just look at that upload speed

mines a bit slower

[anon]

* Try installing uT 1.7, enable DHT, and wireshark for bittorrent.com IPs (I suggest: 67.215.242.138-9, 38.114.167.69, 208.72.193.198) to see what's the bootstrap entry point for their mainline DHT tracker implementation.

router.utorrent.com and router.bittorrent.com? Those servers deliver some DHT nodes for you to bootstrap after installing. If concerned, just block those IPs and ask a friend for his dht.dat file.

[AdrianPhoto]

to see what's the bootstrap entry point for their mainline DHT tracker implementation.

If you don't know how DHT works, then please.. for the love of every god men ever believed in.. Don't write just to sound like you know.

let's look at this:

1- Private tracker, you're safe! DHT disabled
2- Public tracker, your IP & Info hash for files you're downloading are distributed anyway, on any version of uTorrent or any other BitTorrent client.

I suggest reading this
http://wiki.theory.org/BitTorrentDraftDHTProtocol