uTorrent exploring new revenue models, including charging for the client

Time to switch......

Originally posted by ivymike:

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Time to switch......

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AGREED

Got my Utorrent 2.2.1

Last release without ads and slick as Hell!

Can be gotten everywhere.

Utorrent is sealing their own coffin here. Bittorrent clients are widely available and really nothing special. If Utorrent can't survive without jacking peeps for their money, they should commit virtual suicide.

Already got Transmission installed on my Windows PC in place of uTorrent.....

I ditched uTorrent back in 2008 after all the security issues and horror stories that surfaced.
I've been using Transmission for Mac since then and couldn't be happier.

Pirate uTorrent with uTorrent. lol

No need to. uTorrent 2.2.1 for small, sleek client, Vuze/Azureus (using the "Classic" interface) for edge-case connections, NAT issues, and such.

I'm not sure how they expect to get people, who are mostly downloading free stuff, to pay them for the client, especially when there are so many free clients that are better.
If they want to charge for the client then they need to come up with something that protects the URL's from spying eyes.

Originally posted by hearme0:

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Got my Utorrent 2.2.1

Last release without ads and slick as Hell!

Can be gotten everywhere.

Utorrent is sealing their own coffin here. Bittorrent clients are widely available and really nothing special. If Utorrent can't survive without jacking peeps for their money, they should commit virtual suicide.

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I still have uTorrent 1.6 saved somewhere around here...such a small footprint and one of the last before BitTorrent bought it up.

2.2.1 Was the last, actually. The version best representing "old-school" uTorrent would be 1.8.5. Don't use 1.6! There's a LOT of fixes, changes, and security tweaks you really ought to have.

Originally posted by hearme0:

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Got my Utorrent 2.2.1

Last release without ads and slick as Hell!

Can be gotten everywhere.

Utorrent is sealing their own coffin here. Bittorrent clients are widely available and really nothing special. If Utorrent can't survive without jacking peeps for their money, they should commit virtual suicide.

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like where

oldversion.com or oldapps.com

It's been a while since I used Bittorrent but I always wondered about everyone raving about uTorrent 2.2.1. I understand the allure, but as Bozobub said there were "security tweaks" made between 1.6 and 2.2.1. Surely there have been many such tweaks made since 2.2.1?

Based on that baseless assumption, I switched to Transmission. And then stopped torrenting altogether (for completely unrelated reasons).

What happened between 2.2.1 and the the next release, 3.0, was the acquisition of the uTorrent IP by BitTorrent, Inc., the company started by Bram Cohen (the guy who invented the protocol). It was a pretty rough transition, and the client had a lot of...erm..."issues", including any (or all) of the following at any given time:
- Bloat.
- HD thrashing, up to the point of full system lockup for some people.
- BLOAT
- Ads.
- Did I mention the bloat..?
- Severe seeding and/or leeching issues.
- And other obnoxious silliness.

Honestly, from 3.4.x on, the client is reasonably stable again. That said, uTorrent 2.2.1 was the last version before the acquisition, and still arguably one of the best.

If I wanted bloat, I'd run Azureus, dammit =) which is still probably the most powerful client out there in many ways. The automatic load-balancing plugin is literally unmatched, for example. but it's just so...porky.

As clients go, Transmission has a pretty good rep; I don't think you're doing yourself a disservice by swapping clients - lol. But don't automatically assume newer versions of a given program are better.

Azureus always been my choice way back when supernova was still alive and kicking. Utorrent was too basic for my liking. Now I only use azureus on my phone to download fansubs (got rid of utorrent because of the ads on the mobile client.)

Originally posted by Bozobub:

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What happened between 2.2.1 and the the next release, 3.0, was the acquisition of the uTorrent IP by BitTorrent, Inc., the company started by Bram Cohen (the guy who invented the protocol). It was a pretty rough transition, and the client had a lot of...erm..."issues", including any (or all) of the following at any given time:
- Bloat.
- HD thrashing, up to the point of full system lockup for some people.
- BLOAT
- Ads.
- Did I mention the bloat..?
- Severe seeding and/or leeching issues.
- And other obnoxious silliness.

Honestly, from 3.4.x on, the client is reasonably stable again. That said, uTorrent 2.2.1 was the last version before the acquisition, and still arguably one of the best.

If I wanted bloat, I'd run Azureus, dammit =) which is still probably the most powerful client out there in many ways. The automatic load-balancing plugin is literally unmatched, for example. but it's just so...porky.

As clients go, Transmission has a pretty good rep; I don't think you're doing yourself a disservice by swapping clients - lol. But don't automatically assume newer versions of a given program are better.

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Cheers for the reply, Bozobub. I definitely don't assume a new version is better. Simply by including ads, I think that increases vulnerability.

Security in this day and age is something that unfortunately is based on trust. Even when you stick with open source, it's not possible to inspect every line of code to ensure there isn't something nefarious hidden within (or a bug that could lead to something nefarious).

The internets are quite scary these days!

Okay? I haven't touched it in over 2 years. It locked my system up and once I got it off that was it. I did run well for 2 years though.

Bozo should post up an article on the pros and cons of each client/ versions similar to the post he did above for people looking to move to a different one.

Been done over and over by people far better at it than me; I'm just some grizzled old veteran pirate yer talking to in a bar ^^' . Just search for "compare bittorrent clients (pros AND cons) 2015" (caps intended), you'll see a bunch of useful info.

Originally posted by Bozobub:

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Been done over and over by people far better at it than me; I'm just some grizzled old veteran pirate yer talking to in a bar ^^' . Just search for "compare bittorrent clients (pros AND cons) 2015" (caps intended), you'll see a bunch of useful info.

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Thanks bozo. I have been using the current utorrent client and have it minimized all of the time. It's tolerable once you hack the ads off of it but I might downgrade to 221 to end the madness or switch altogether. I do remember the golden times on 221 and it severely going to sh*t after that. It took a few versions to clear a lot of it up.

For those of you searching for uTorrent 2.2.1,
here it is...

link

...just got done downloading it.

I'm currently using version 3.4.3 ...I just hope that if I
install ver 2.2.1 my current torrent files and Save-To folder
locations will be remembered once I start using 2.2.1.

Otherwise I'll just have to use a completely different client.

LOL....in the about section of uTorrent 3.3 "Thanks for using this FREE program. We hope you like it. If you paid for it, get a refund!"

Originally posted by arnould1:

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LOL....in the about section of uTorrent 3.3 "Thanks for using this FREE program. We hope you like it. If you paid for it, get a refund!"

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Like buying water from a lake. LOL

Originally posted by arnould1:

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LOL....in the about section of uTorrent 3.3 "Thanks for using this FREE program. We hope you like it. If you paid for it, get a refund!"

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No different than the people currently selling Win10 keys for a temporarily free OS. I wonder if MS closed up the Technet bonanza free-for-all that happened during Win7 launch?