BitTorrent Buys uTorrent

The P2P community is pissed. Super pissed in fact as BitTorrent has announced that it has purchased the company that authored uTorrent. This on the heels of the announcement that BitTorrent will partner with various large media houses to provide access to content. Here is a sampling of the reactions…

This is a fucking disgrace. Bram has made deals with various film companies and such just to make a buck from them. And to be honest with out “illegal” downloading bittorrent wouldn’t be what it is today. So Bram if you fuck this up it’s your ass that shits on this community.

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back to bit comet for me… too bad, utorrent used to be a great application.

and the pervasive

this sucks

The free ride looks like it is coming to an end.

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