uTorrent Becomes Ad-Supported to Rake in Millions

Re:uTorrent Becomes Ad-Supported to Rake in Millions by baddox on Saturday August 11, 2012 @11:05PM (#4371694)

I've never understood why anyone who is tech savvy would use a closed-source BitTorrent client, especially if they plan on using it to commit copyright infringement. There are open source alternatives, like deluge (which is cross platform and has a remote client feature that's splendid) or rtorrent (a great little ncurses client for *nix).

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Re:uTorrent Becomes Ad-Supported to Rake in Millions by lelandbatey on Sunday August 12, 2012 @01:13AM (#4371924)

The best client that I have used so far is by far Transmission for *nix systems. I learned about it when I got my first mac, and now it makes for a lovely headless seedbox.

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Re:uTorrent Becomes Ad-Supported to Rake in Millions by antihero on Sunday August 12, 2012 @05:50AM (#4372267)

The web UI is also really nice and simple.

I think the reason I use Transmission over rtorrent is that it seems to allow you to "eat" stuff that you put in a blackhole, which is rather nice.

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Re:uTorrent Becomes Ad-Supported to Rake in Millions by someperson on Sunday August 12, 2012 @07:13AM (#4372335)

Wait what?

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Re:uTorrent Becomes Ad-Supported to Rake in Millions by barbs on Saturday August 11, 2012 @11:41PM (#4371747)

I believe there's a client called qttorrent or qtorrent that's meant to be an open source clone of utorrent. I've not tried it out though.

[EDIT] Found it, it's http://www.qbittorrent.org/

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Re:uTorrent Becomes Ad-Supported to Rake in Millions by m_for_monkey on Sunday August 12, 2012 @02:19AM (#4372011)

I'm using it extensively on Xubuntu and I think it's awesome. I can only recommend it. When reading the title, my first thought was to pimp it here...

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Re:uTorrent Becomes Ad-Supported to Rake in Millions by colmvp on Sunday August 12, 2012 @02:10AM (#4372000)

I consider myself relatively tech savvy but I never heard of deluge. Thanks for that info.

Deluge would probably be helped by making it dead easier to download like uTorrent.

utorrent > Go to utorrent.com, site automatically figures out what OS I have > click download button to save it.

deluge > Go to deluge-torrent.org > click on download button > select operating system > go to a different subdomain/domain altogether to figure out which version to download.

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Re:uTorrent Becomes Ad-Supported to Rake in Millions by shadyabhi on Sunday August 12, 2012 @02:15AM (#4372006)

Try qbittorrent. It's really nice.

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Re:uTorrent Becomes Ad-Supported to Rake in Millions by someperson on Saturday August 11, 2012 @11:27PM (#4371721)

It seems the author of rtorrent doesn't want to add highly important features like manual addition of trackers among other things.

Deluge was buggy last time I used it (about a year ago). Lot's of potential though.

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Re:uTorrent Becomes Ad-Supported to Rake in Millions by w1ntermute on Saturday August 11, 2012 @11:41PM (#4371744)

I use Deluge as my only client, accessing a Linux daemon instance of Deluge from a Linux client and a Windows client. The only issue I occasionally encounter are errors in the final download, but that's easily fixed by forcing a recheck.

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Re:uTorrent Becomes Ad-Supported to Rake in Millions by andrewfelix on Saturday August 11, 2012 @11:57PM (#4371770)

I've been using uTorrent out of old habit. Thanks for putting me onto Deluge.

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