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BitTorrent Use Rising, uTorrent Userbase Tops 52 Million p/mo
Belies recent reports that P2P traffic has declined to 15-20% of overall traffic in North America, down from 37% back in 2007. Despite earlier claims to the contrary, it seems BitTorrent is more popular than ever these days with news that the BitTorrent client uTorrent has nearly doubled its userbase to some 52 million unique users per month and that all the major tracker sites have seen a significant increase in visitors. Arbor Networks, a company which sells subscriber traffic management equipment to ISPs, released the results of a study back in September that concluded P2P traffic is down to roughly 15-20% of all North American traffic.
Continue reading »uTorrent v2.0 Throttles Itself
BitTorrent client will throttle upload speed when network congestion is detected, diminishing the need for ISPs to throttle BitTorrent traffic as part of network traffic management practices and saving them billions in the process. ISPs have long been throttling BitTorrent traffic as part of their network traffic management practices due to the constant baseline pressure that uploads represent on overall bandwidth. Enter uTorrent v2.0 beta, currently being tested by several hundred thousand people, which incorporates uTP, an updated and improved version of the BitTorrent protocol designed to be more network friendly.
Continue reading »BitTorrent Makes P2P Throttling by ISPs Unnecessary
The new uTorrent 2.0 is using a new BitTorrent protocol designed to make it aware of network clogging BitTorrent has irreversibly changed the way we perceive the sharing or distribution of digital content. Most of the p2p applications out there have behind them the BitTorrent technology whose benefits some in the gaming industry (but also other domains) have started to use, hopefully inspiring other industries as well. The beef between ISPs and advocates of net neutrality was generously fed – on one hand, the former claimed that people using p2p clients are slowing down the networks – Comcast was one of the companies that had a ‘special’ policy against BitTorrent traffic which it later admitted to having throttled; on the other hand users revolted against this discrimination and BitTorrent inventor Bram Cohen tried to persuade ISPs to find a middle way, something to please both sides.
Continue reading »uTorrent Is Going to Make Money With a Toolbar
The current economic situation is affecting everyone, and high technology companies are no exception. We’ve previously reported how BitTorrent Inc. had made layoffs and closed their Torrent Entertainment Network in recent months, in an attempt to cut costs and stay in business.
Continue reading »Electronics Retailer Pirates Movies to Sell Macbooks
Apple is no stranger to making millions of dollars off the back of piracy. After all, rampant MP3 piracy has proven to be the lifeblood of its 160gig iPods, even if you discount the Middle Eastern Sheikh customers who can actually afford to fill one. But there are other more subtle ways for the company to benefit from copyright infringement.
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