![]() An original free BitTorrent app supported by ads). They now offer a version of the BitTorrent client that can help you earn BTT tokens (BitTorrent Speed) and the decentralized BitTorrent File System (BTFS).īitTorrent Classic offers the following plans: company (after being bought by TRON) is now moving towards Crypto-based products. Also, you will likely notice that the BitTorrent Inc. In addition, they also offer BitTorrent Remote, a “content utility” to manage your torrents remotely and access your home-based (or seedbox-based) BitTorrent client. The BitTorrent client offers torrent downloader products ranging from the popular BitTorrent Classic (only Windows), BitTorrent Web (Mac and Windows), and BitTorrent Android. They were the first ones to provide a pro version of their software.Ģ. BitTorrent on the other hand, (which took the code from uTorrent) focused more on commercializing its product. As of today, 2022, many long-time users advise new users against uTorrent (probably for good historical reasons). UTorrent was ideal and the favorite for millions for many years, but including a hidden crapware broke their reputation. Although this unintelligent move smashed their reputation, uTorrent is coming clean again as fast and light as before. After this incident, uTorrent long-time users lost all credibility in their software and moved to other torrent clients. ![]() Now, all uTorrent clients were installing and using uTorrent with a crypto miner running in the background without a user’s knowledge. ![]() Although they were already adding bloatware and crapware before 2015, the company decided to add a hidden crypto-miner in the default installation. From 2006 to 2014, uTorrent was one of the favorite and most globally used BitTorrent clients until 2015. uTorrent consumed minimal computer resources, and so the millions of torrent users took a keen interest in uTorrent.īelow is a snapshot (thanks to Wayback Machine) of the uTorrent homepage during the 1.3 release in 2005.ĭuring the following year, 2006, uTorrent was acquired by the BitTorrent Inc company. μTorrent (or easier, uTorrent) quickly gained traction as a lighter alternative to larger clients such as BitTorrent, Vuze, and BitComet. UTorrent was publicly released in 2005 (version 1.1 beta) as a much lighter (bloatware-free) alternative to the BitTorrent Mainline client- thus, the odd “μ” in μTorrent, which is the Greek letter “mu,” for micro. ![]() They took the BitTorrent client and created the newest version, BitTorrent Speed. As of 2018, the Rainberry company was acquired by TRON, a decentralized and open-source blockchain-based OS. First, the software became proprietary and ad-supported, and second, the BitTorrent developers took the code from uTorrent and created a rebranded BitTorrent version of uTorrent. The last version of the original BitTorrent was BitTorrent 5.30 (which was free and open-source).īelow is a snapshot (thanks to Wayback Machine) of the BitTorrent homepage during the 4.2.0 release (prior to 6.0).ĭuring the BitTorrent version 6.0 release, there were a couple of dramatic changes. The BitTorrent client is also referred to as the BitTorrent Mainline. BitTorrent (torrent downloader) was the first torrent client developed purposefully for the BitTorrent protocol. In 2001, Bram Cohen created the popular BitTorrent protocol along with its first client with the same name. One is the company, another is the protocol, and the last one is the torrent downloader software. Side note: Do not confuse BitTorrent Inc, BitTorrent, and BitTorrent Client. uTorrent differences using history-How the two “historically” quite distinct and competitive torrent downloaders evolved to become twin brothers. uTorrent Classic is supported by Windows, Linux, and macOS, while BitTorrent Classic is only supported by Windows. The classic version of both clients is not supported by the same platforms. (former BitTorrent, Inc.), responsible for the continuous development of the one and only BitTorrent P2P protocol and the two torrent clients, uTorrent and BitTorrent, along with many other products. Both belong to the same company, Rainberry, Inc. BitTorrent and uTorrent are both proprietary (closed-source software) BitTorrent clients supported by ads (adware).
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