BitTorrent founder Bram Cohen has left the company

Re:BitTorrent founder Bram Cohen has left the company by kace91 on Monday August 20, 2018 @03:13AM (#17798214)

I haven't kept up with those news. As a torent user (through a different client, I use qbittorrent) is there anything I should be wary of?

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Re:BitTorrent founder Bram Cohen has left the company by cosmojg on Monday August 20, 2018 @04:22AM (#17798413)

Nope, BitTorrent, Inc. is just as scummy as its new owners. Both of the proprietary(!) clients it distributes, BitTorrent and uTorrent, are loaded with adware and other garbage. The inventor of the open-source BitTorrent protocol we all know and love, Bram Cohen[0], already left the company late last year to start another company, Chia.Network[1], which is yet another cryptocurrency company.

[0]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bram_Cohen [1]https://chia.net

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Re:BitTorrent founder Bram Cohen has left the company by zaarn on Monday August 20, 2018 @05:16AM (#17798591)

Probably not using Bittorrent itself is sufficient. I would also be wary of their Sync application.

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