The New Improvements of uTorrent 2.0 (Final)

[ExtraDry]

I can see this going three ways,
1). Some Sites will ban UT2 and allow and encourage earlier models of Utorrent to 1.6
2).Others more likely the bigger sites will allow UT2 and put pressure on other clients to update to UTP or risk banning their clients.
3).Others will allow,who gives a fook allow everything we not here to shape BT future we are here for the cash

Could be a number 4--if we had a coder we'd have a allowed list

Time will tell.

[kurdt]

Using a hex-editor is easy. It's like Notepad, but deeper. You can find a good one here:
http://mh-nexus.de/en/hxd/
Note the official uTorrent EXEs are compressed with UPX, so you'll need to download the "uncompressed" builds or unpack them yourself using UPX or QUnpack before you can edit them.



I remove the following things in my mods:

239.192.152.143
239.255.255.250
http://www.utorrent.com/report_problem.php
http://update.utorrent.com/checkupdate.php
http://update.utorrent.com/updatestats.php
llsw.download3.utorrent.com
ll.download3.utorrent.com
http://update.utorrent.com/installstats.php
http://download.utorrent.com/offers/tb_ask-1.5.1.0.exe
http://%s/offers/tb_ask-1.5.1.0.exe
http://download.yandex.ru/yandex-pack/utorrent/YandexPackSetup.exe
http://download.yandex.ru/yandex-pack/utorrent/YandexPackSetup-utorrent-20090724.exe
http://search.utorrent.com/search.php?q=%U&e=%U&u=1

You can replace the IPs with 000.000.000.000, and simply fill the rest with null bytes.

2)
a)What are the IP ranges for router.utorrent.com and router.bittorrent.com?
b)If I knew them, can I just plug them into a custom peerblock list?

a. both use the same IPs: 67.215.242.138, 67.215.242.139
b. yes, you can add them to your PeerBlock blocklist and they should no longer be contacted.

3)
a)What's the purpose of the dht.dat file? and
b)why do you need to get one from a friend?

a. the dht.dat file contains the addresses of other peers uTorrent will connect to to form part of the DHT after start-up.
b. the "router.*.com" hosts give you some peers to get you started when you've just installed uTorrent. If you're a bit paranoid, you'll block them, but then you'll be unable to bootstrap (connect) until you get your hands on a dht.dat file - so I recommend asking a friend for his. If your DHT is already working, there's nothing to worry about.

4) Do you have to do both of these methods, or would one suffice?

If you're paranoid, you should do both Personally, I only block the call-homes and don't touch the "router.*.com" addresses. But then again my country is outside the MPAA's reach for the time being.

Thanks so MUCH for taking the time to post all that info. will editing the exe cause any problems with privates sites that have specific allowed clients? i.e., would it look like a cheater mod to them or an unallowed version?

also, if you only use private sites do you still need that file to initialize the DHT?

[cap87]

Just out of curiosity, does the latest version work properly with wine (webui included)?

[anon]

2).Others more likely the bigger sites will allow UT2 and put pressure on other clients to update to UTP or risk banning their clients.

Just to give some info, there are plans for the uTP specification to go open. If that ever happens, every client could potentially support it. What would tracker admins do then, ban all new client versions?

Thanks so MUCH for taking the time to post all that info. will editing the exe cause any problems with privates sites that have specific allowed clients? i.e., would it look like a cheater mod to them or an unallowed version?

Changing the things I mentioned (and only those) shouldn't affect the way uTorrent reports itself or your stats to the tracker. Now, if you change anything else other than what I posted, do it at your own risk.

also, if you only use private sites do you still need that file to initialize the DHT?

If you use private sites only, you have no need for DHT. Just disable it.

[ExtraDry]

2).Others more likely the bigger sites will allow UT2 and put pressure on other clients to update to UTP or risk banning their clients.

wcd and waffles banning Deluge and azureus/vuze, two big players staring the cull.

[anon]

Under the excuse those clients are used to cheat. A Deluge cheating mod doesn't even exist, and since the Vuze one can spoof most other allowed clients, this won't really stop cheating.

[Ratul]

dose the utorrent version 2.0 support video streaming.

[anon]

If "dose" means "does" and that was a question - I think not, but 2.1 definitely does.

[Ratul]

^^^^ it was "does"