Whatever Happened To uTorrent?
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Published 2023-10-16
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Do you remember uTorrent? uTorrent was by far the most popular BitTorrent in the world in the late 2000s and early 2010s, and they still is the most popular in terms of market share. However, the market itself has largely shrunk over the years due to the rise of affordable models to stream movies, music, and games. In fact, the current interest in uTorrent is only 3% of where it used to be at its peak, and when uTorrent temporarily went down earlier this year, rumors started flying around that the service was down permanently. Fortunately for uTorrent, this wasn’t the case but things aren’t looking all that much better. uTorrent has been forced to put in ads and introduce paid tiers for the service but this is still very much an uphill battle. This video discusses the history of uTorrent and the rise, fall, and legacy of the most popular BitTorrent in history.
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All Comments (21)
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uTorrent was a pretty good client for a decade even after the web UI it was OK but the ads absolutely killed it
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talked about utorrent with a co-worker who is 5 years younger than me. she had no idea what it was and actually had no idea on how to pirate things. it was a bit of a shock lmao
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with streaming services hiking their prices, maybe the u / mutorrent is slowly getting back in the game?
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For some of us, it never died and might never die.
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in Germany everyone called in "µ torrent" (spoken with a "µ"), because this what the application title stated. And since most Germans know this letter from math, it never was a secret how it is called.
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While it might have slowed down, I see interest coming back.. I've seen several friends "sail the seas" again being frustrated by show segmentation on all of the streaming services.
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Piracy is probably going to come back because of all the subscription services doing price hikes, and a lot of people might start realizing its better to own(I'm using own loosely here) the media instead of paying a monthly or annual subscription to basically rent it.
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"you no longer have to pay $40-60 per month just to watch TV shows and movies with a bunch of ads" well, its getting REALLY close to that now
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I used to love utorrent. But you’re right. The world changed and it just wasn’t needed as much.
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What you say about streaming services may have been true in the early days, but now that $10 Netflix is $20, and a huge chunk of the shows that used to be on there have all moved to their own streaming platforms, segmenting streaming so it is now the same price as cable. Piracy is on the up now, people are fed up with the greed of the entertainment industry while the cost of living is increasing.
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One of the reasons was, by the way, they ran crypto mining in the background which slowed down old computers significantly. Many users switched to light torrent programs after this. I cannot remember how many times my old computer turned itself off, and I had to put it into the fridge to turn it back up again.
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The greed of the streaming companies combined with the shaky economy may very well create a resurgence in demand for content from the "high seas".
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I still use it regularly. For legal reasons of course. Never bothered changing.
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It's nice how the video is exactly 13:37 long, nice
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Most of it users were people in college like myself who didn't have money. After graduation and getting jobs these same users can now spend money on streaming services and softwares. Also, having a busy life you don't have time wait for downloads and the next generation don't care about it.
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You unlocked a core memory I thought I have buried a long time ago...
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The last usable version for me was 1.8.5. After they started ads and bloatware, I just stuck to 1.8.5 downloaded from some old version website, and if I’m unlucky enough to use Windows, that’s still the version that I download.
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I left the moment they had ads and everyone I knew was the same. The ads will track you, and although I was just using it just for Linux distros that used torrents, it still skeevy, and I cannot imagine those using it for actual piracy were comfortable with the spying.
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There are better torrent options now.
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I always called it mutorrent. Never knew utorrent was also acceptable.
