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Who uses BitTorrent anymore? There's a swath of other torrent clients out there that are superior to it.

BitTorrent The Company isn't focused around their p2p client. They've been trying to become some form of media publisher for a long time now, but haven't had any particular big hits there.

At this point, I think the name recognition is the fundamental asset they have as a company.

Exactly...they have nothing to speak of, but a lot they like to talk about. Cohen got real lucky here and if he is as smart as he is supposed to be, he will stash away a couple million of that for a rainy day. History is littered with inventors who ended up broke.

BitTorrent the company is a lot more than a bittorrent client.

Oh? Care to elucidate on that? What do they actually do and how do they make money besides selling a few ads on that client? Serious question I'm sure everyone here would like to know the answer to.

This is their multimedia content focused website: https://now.bt.co/

Feel free to read the article

> given the company is not only well-versed in the technologies necessary for decentralised, peer-to-peer networking through its software and protocols but also has a foothold in the entertainment industry via BitTorrent Now, helping independent artists and musicians promulgate their work using the same technology used to pirate the latest episodes of your favourite TV shows

I really liked it, but walked away since the "mining client" controversy. Has anything changed since?

Or outsource the hassle and risk and use a paid "online torrent client".

uTorrent FTW

Doesn't uTorrent have ads? I use deluge because I like having a headless back-end part.

utorrent went to trash the moment bittorrent bought it. I still use the version before that.

qBittorrent is much better

Though I use Transmission on my NAS4Free box, which I control remotely through the excellent transgui program (https://github.com/transmission-remote-gui/transgui) I also install qBittorrent to all Windows/Linux users asking for a client for it being very stable and consistent among platforms, the latter very important for newbies, but I see now they're porting Transmission to Windows as well. Good!

I don't consider closed source clients for security reasons, or bloated ones (Vuze etc.) because I'd rather use a spare GB of RAM to make a filesystem more snappy than to load a Java environment that eats alone half the resources of a small server.

Last I heard, Deluge was the preferred minimalist client. I've never noticed much difference between the ones I've tried other than that some have ads. Performance seems to be pretty much the same across the board.

I wouldn't called Deluge minimalist - that's Transmission.

Deluge is more of a power-tool, albeit one most people can use happily.

The big thing that I like is that you can use the desktop GUI (GTK) client with a remote daemon doing the actual downloading. Plenty of them have web-clients (Deluge does as well), but it's nice using the proper GUI. Other than that, it has all of the usual tools you'd want from a client.

Transmission is betterst

rTorrent + tmux is my poison

I used to use Transmission, but I gave up on it because of UI/settings issues. I've since switched to KTorrent.

Transmission is great but they lost a lot of trust when they started distributing malware from their website.

That's a very disingenuous phrasing. They were hacked. Maybe (probably) due to bad security practices, but they didn't intentionally distribute malware.

You’re right. I’d edit my comment, but it looks like I can’t anymore.

link? Because the only time I can think of is when their website got hacked and the developers sent out notice as soon as they found out.

That’s it. As a sibling comment mentioned, I did not phrase that well.

And twice at that.

qBittorrent is much better

uTorrent is owned by BitTorrent company

uTorrent is pure ad-filled garbage since they bought it...nearly impossible to use from all the popups and shit. at one time it was the only thing anyone used but i seriously doubt anyone bothers with it anymore.

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