uTorrent & BitTorrent Surpass 150 Million Monthly Users
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By Ernesto, January 9, 2012
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[quote]uTorrent parent company BitTorrent Inc. just announced that the BitTorrent Mainline client and uTorrent have hit the milestone of 150 million monthly users. Together both clients increased their user base by more than 50 percent compared to last year, and the end of this surge is not yet in sight.
With millions of people using BitTorrent every day, the protocol has been the leading P2P technology from more than half a decade.
Despite massive competition from cyberlockers, BitTorrent continues to expand year after year, and not just by a little. Today, BitTorrent Inc. announced that their two flagship clients increased their user base by 50 percent, to more than 150 million active users a month.
Most growth can be attributed to uTorrent, which more than quadrupled its number of monthly users in the last three years. The ‘tiny’ BitTorrent client went from 28 million monthly users in December 2008 to 132 million last month.
“This marks an amazing milestone for our company and we want to thank our loyal users and partners for their support. Our protocol and software clients have become some of the most pervasive pieces of technology in Internet history,” says BitTorrent Inc. CEO Eric Klinker.
“We look forward to another exciting year of growth and we continue expanding our product lines to meet the needs of consumers creating and consuming high-quality personal media files on a broad range of consumer electronics devices,” he adds.
The last comment ties in to a slew of other announcements released by BitTorrent today. The company is currently showcasing several “BitTorrent Certified” devices at CES, the world’s largest consumer electronics tradeshow in Las Vegas. Through these partnerships BitTorrent hopes to add an extra revenue stream, and widen its user base beyond the traditional computer.
Aside from showing off BitTorrent-enabled routers, TVs and network storage devices, BitTorrent will also launch the world’s first certified set-top box developed by the Slovakian company Antik. The set-top-box allows users to search, download and play torrent files directly on their TV.
The advantage of the BitTorrent Certified ecosystem is that it simplifies the downloading process for less tech-savvy people. Right now, many people drop out after installing a BitTorrent client because they find it too complicated to download and play content.
Whether these devices will be a success is yet to be seen, but there is certainly a large enough user base to tap into.
Based on the 150 million active monthly users BitTorrent Inc. reports for their clients, the total number of monthly BitTorrent users can be estimated at more than a quarter billion. And despite these already dazzling numbers, there is still plenty of room for growth. [/quote]
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Don't turn this thread into a "my BitTorrent client is better than your BitTorrent client"
That's a lot of linux distros
Clean since 2009, and proud of it. [sp]Special Thanks to Steam[/sp]
Someone in this thread is going to be banned for warez.
I was expecting a higher number but half the population of the US is a high number
[QUOTE=Catesby;34132888]Someone in this thread is going to be banned for warez.[/QUOTE]
I think you're allowed to say that you pirate stuff now and even what you downloaded, as long as you don't post links to it.
Please confirm this, mods.
I've hardly torrented in the past 3 years compared to the 3 years prior. I would always choose the torrent option being on a slow connected, however now I'm on a much faster speed I will happily direct download over the option to torrent it over a few days/nights.
[QUOTE=mac338;34132940]I think you're allowed to say that you pirate stuff now and even what you downloaded, as long as you don't post links to it.
Please confirm this, mods.[/QUOTE]
I once posted a filetree of my HDD and someone pointed out that I had a game that was steam only installed in a separate folder, (which is a clear indicator of a pirated game) and got banned for a week, even after I used my "I like naming my linux distros' folders after games and storing them in program files" excuse
Don't say (or provide evidence that you have) that you have downloaded anything under copyright or you'll get a ban.
Not too sure how I feel about this, you see legislation like SOPA and you are appalled by it, but then you look at how many people are actually torrenting and you just know there has to be some way to stop/prevent it.
Don't rage on me please about how some artist's record company takes shits on customers, I mean in general.
SOPA.
[QUOTE=areolop;34132682]Clean since 2009, and proud of it. [sp]Special Thanks to Steam[/sp][/QUOTE]
all hail gabe newell!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
[QUOTE=mac338;34132940]I think you're allowed to say that you pirate stuff now and even what you downloaded, as long as you don't post links to it.
Please confirm this, mods.[/QUOTE]
I think you can get banned with the dumb description of: "We don't need to know this"
Less people would pirate if media were more available legally for reasonable prices. It's why Steam works so well - if you're nice enough to the consumers and make things available at reasonable costs, people will buy legitimately. It's when you make things assloads of money that people resort to alternative methods. Do you know how many people would buy Photoshop if it were $100 or so?
[QUOTE=ewitwins;34133074]Not too sure how I feel about this, you see legislation like SOPA and you are appalled by it, but then you look at how many people are actually torrenting and you just know there has to be some way to stop/prevent it.
Don't rage on me please about how some artist's record company takes shits on customers, I mean in general.[/QUOTE]
I'm pretty sure there are several studies out there that in fact prove that piracy increases overall sales.
I haven't illegally torrented anything this year
[QUOTE=TF2Master;34133296]I haven't illegally torrented anything this year[/QUOTE]
9 days, impressive!
I have never pirated anything.
[I][B]Ever![/B][/I]
I only torrent new movies that are released and the newest episodes of the tv shows that i follow. I haven't pirated a game since several years back and i have been buying a lot of blurays since last autumn.
The only thing I've ever pirated was the first time I saw The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy movie
and I bought it a day later
[QUOTE=Saza;34133575]The only thing I've ever pirated was the first time I saw The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy movie
and I bought it a day later[/QUOTE]
why
Haven't seen this video posted in a long time in one of these threads.
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEBbu-wkKrs[/media]
[QUOTE=Galago;34133187]Less people would pirate if media were more available legally for reasonable prices. It's why Steam works so well - if you're nice enough to the consumers and make things available at reasonable costs, people will buy legitimately. It's when you make things assloads of money that people resort to alternative methods. Do you know how many people would buy Photoshop if it were $100 or so?[/QUOTE]
Game demos. For the love of god. Game. Demos.
It's impossible to try out modern games before spending $40-$60 on it anymore. The only way is piracy and I don't think people would end up buying it after 'testing it out' either.
Example: Most games on Android market has free versions. I have bought games I [B]thought[/B] were 'not so exciting' but actually entertaining. Why? I had a chance to try the game out and I enjoyed it. Besides, games on Android market costs just a buck or two.
[QUOTE=Chekko;34133854]Game demos. For the love of god. Game. Demos.
It's impossible to try out modern games before spending $40-$60 on it anymore. The only way is piracy and I don't think people would end up buying it after 'testing it out' either.
Example: Most games on Android market has free versions. I have bought games I [B]thought[/B] were 'not so exciting' but actually entertaining. Why? I had a chance to try the game out and I enjoyed it. Besides, games on Android market costs just a buck or two.[/QUOTE]
And the one-game-per-year that does have a demo is usually a highly-scripted training level and nothing else
[QUOTE=smurfy;34133935]And the one-game-per-year that does have a demo is usually a highly-scripted training level and nothing else[/QUOTE]
Just Cause 2 had the right idea.
They even have a competitor to Dropbox and similar in the works:
[url]http://gigaom.com/2012/01/05/bittorrent-share-app/[/url]
My favorite bit:
[QUOTE]BitTorrent isn’t the first company to try to combine P2P and personal media sharing. Companies like Pando have long offered personal file transfers, but typically limit the size of files that can be transferred to manage hosting costs. Others like Podmailing were more aggressive, but eventually had to shut down due to exploding hosting costs.
Ghanem told me BitTorrent plans to avoid this kind of fate by building out its own P2P-powered personal cloud storage system. The system isn’t up and running yet, [B]but the idea is that users will receive free storage for their files by sharing some hard drive space and bandwidth with other users.[/B][/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=ewitwins;34133074]Not too sure how I feel about this, you see legislation like SOPA and you are appalled by it, but then you look at how many people are actually torrenting and you just know there has to be some way to stop/prevent it.
Don't rage on me please about how some artist's record company takes shits on customers, I mean in general.[/QUOTE]
The way to prevent it is for these record labels and multimedia companies to adapt to the environment instead of sticking to ageing methods of distribution and pricing. They expect people to pay £15 for a DVD which is crammed with DRM and copyright protection, and also thrusts often unskippable adverts in your face, despite the fact you have BOUGHT the film. People aren't prepared to invest the time and money in to a product that is punishing its customers, so they resort to piracy instead.
I pretty much only download TV shows that aren't shown in the UK, like Breaking Bad.
[QUOTE=Van-man;34134441]They even have a competitor to Dropbox and similar in the works:
[url]http://gigaom.com/2012/01/05/bittorrent-share-app/[/url]
My favorite bit:[/QUOTE]
god fucking damn it I had something like this idea like three years ago
I could be rich right now
[QUOTE=scotland1;34134486]I pretty much only download Linux distros that are available legally for free.[/QUOTE]
Snip it
[QUOTE=Jasun;34134511]Snip it[/QUOTE]
Since it is impossible for me to legally obtain it, I don't see how downloading it is illegal.
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