torrentfreak.com — We had the chance to talk to Bram Cohen, the inventor of BitTorrent and the co-founder if BitTorrent Inc. He goes into detail about the recent the acquisition of uTorrent, how to deal with encrypting ISPs, a streamable version of BitTorrent, BitTorrent’s arrangement with the MPAA, and much more.
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noonebutmeJan 17, 2007
uTorrent is HEAVILY integrated into the w32 API, so you'll be waiting for the OS X and Linux rewrite's of uTorrent for awhile. And thats what will have to be done - rewrite a majority of the code to work with Cocoa/GTK.
Closed AccountJan 17, 2007
f**k them then!You DON'T offer your customers an all you can eat service if you don't want to lay on the pipes and hardware to let them do it! If its eating into their margins then they need to charge more, not throttle data simply because they're cheap-ass bastards who won't pay for proper infrastructure!!ISPs really piss me off with this kind of thing.I pay my $X/month for Y-speed and Z-download limit, if the ISP is unwilling to let me use my connection in whatever way I see fit within the framework of what connection I pay for then they shouldn't offer such plans, or in the least, include a statement like "We will cut your bandwidth to next to 0 if we want to", lets see how many new subscribers they get then.
crazybritJan 18, 2007
I'd love a native port of uTorrent. I've been holding off on downloading stuff on Linux because there aren't really any good clients that run natively, and I heard that you can get kicked off private trackers for using them.
thelastgnuJan 18, 2007
ponytails own...
ahthriftJan 18, 2007
WTF at some of the previous comments about there being no good clients for Linux. Transmission is a GREAT client for GTK and an even better one for KDE is ktorrent. Ktorrent performs as well as uTorrent/Azuereus on speeds.
skater2968Jan 18, 2007
Exquisitely written interview on the part of torrentfreak. I'm glad to see that good content like that is still available on the Internet. This cleared up a lot of question's I had regarding BT.