Whatever Happened To uTorrent?

[@cinthiaMP]

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

[@SrIgort]

This. I had the same experience recently, they said "I don't use torrents because I don't want to get viruses". 😅, we were talking about movie piracy by the way. This was so stupid that I didn't even try to say anything else.

[@2Btoobee]

who knows, maybe they tried to install a movie hehehehe@@SrIgort

[@NaoyaYami]

@@SrIgort Well, that's just the result of almost all of popular internet traffic (social media in particular) trying to be more and more idiot proof. Now it's so easy to access most of that stuff that users have no idea how they let themselves be exploited (accepting all coookies, signing everywhere, constant localization on phones enabled, etc.). It's such a big issue that some folk still fear viruses even though they aren't really as threatening as mabe decade ago (obviously they still exist but it's much harder to get your PC infected unless you almost actively compromise your cyber security).

[@MrMisticZ]

​@@SrIgortNo, she has a point. If you have no idea where to download from, it's very easy to catch a virus. And for a non-tech savvy those can be a bit scary.

[@TheGUARDIANOFFOR]

Thats normal when im was young most people didnt know how to pirate to ..... Normal people didnt ever use torrents unless told or thought by people like me. Whit services and conviniences it logical that pirating become less prevelent. Im mean its a curve more convinient and cheap things are then less it get pirated.... If things were free or cost wery low almounts then it whud be practicly not pirated at all.... Gaming scene pirating and movie pirating is still as provelent as ever. Nothing changed there atd all still same number of downloaders. Normal people are only one who left torrenting since they have much more options now.

[@doomtomb3]

uTorrent was a pretty good client for a decade even after the web UI it was OK but the ads absolutely killed it

[@midnightoil4339]

you can remove ads in settings. Looks much cleaner after.

[@alice_agogo]

​@@midnightoil4339I use libre torrent for android. no ads whatsoever. stable and fast though I don't know about the latest version since I never update apps. the one i'm using is all I need I just port the apk from phone to phone like the launcher and gallery i've been using for years. they're no longer available on play store but I still use them.

[@backlogbuddies]

It also processes magnet links slower than q if there's over 15 trackers in the link

[@luckyyt2381]

We use 1dm plus or crack apks of utorrent

[@izimsi]

ads aren't the only bloatware, it consumes significantly more resources than open source counterpart, so it shouldn't be trusted or used at this point (like last 10 years)

[@ForcefighterX2]

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.

[@rightwingsafetysquad9872]

I think most people who are smart enough to torrent know that. But 'mu' isn't on English keyboards.

[@schnitzel_enjoyer]

sigma bittorrent enjoyer vs virgin utorrent fanboy

[@chantzgaming]

I always figured it was “micro” torrent

[@Kynatosh]

​@@schnitzel_enjoyerqbittorent yeah

[@CaudaMiller]

@@rightwingsafetysquad9872 copy paste

[@Razzorn34]

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.

[@wyntog]

qBittorent the way to go these days, less bloatware and better reviews.

[@Jack-pc9sp]

The problem is public torrent trackers, the way most users get torrents. They have a litany of issues: Public trackers are infested with bots that snitch to publishers causing people to not seed, they're filled with low quality uploads like bad repacks, they carry the risk of malware like ransomware, many uploads are dead with no seeders. Big trackers are also constantly getting taken down, forcing a never ending cycle where new trackers have to start nearly from scratch, leaving their catalogues with big gaps in content. We need a public tracker people can rely on.

[@alice_agogo]

​@@wyntognope. libre torrent for android is the best

[@rollinontheboard]

THIS @@wyntog

[@ruekurei88]

Yup. Too many damn services and shows and movies spread out across god knows which one. Then you have region blocking content. I went to watch a particular movie the other day, it IS on Netflix, but not available in my region, it's only available in Netflix Czech reb, S. Korea and like two other regions. Yeah fuck that man. We emancipated ourselves from bullshit cable, but it seems we might need to go back into a cable like sub service again so I can actually bundle and watch the movies and shows on these services, without having to pay out for multiple sub services who are going to raise their prices over time and I sometimes don't know if they'll have a movie or not or whether it's available in my region.

[@btuard]

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.

[@Kanbei11]

Additionally, I think it's also the fragmentation of the streaming services that will cause it to come back. When you need more than one subscription to watch what you used to watch on one makes piracy more appealing. Geolocking content is another thing that may cause piracy.

[@haomingli6175]

but with a subscription, you rent the entire library, not just a handful of pieces at a time; also you can download from the stream.

[@spiketwo666]

But the selection sucks once you subscribed.

[@osakoedward]

You say this as if piracy ever left the chat.

[@Freestyle80]

you talk like people own terabytes of storage, you realise how much sh*t one person sometimes watches?

[@forever20plus]

with streaming services hiking their prices, maybe the u / mutorrent is slowly getting back in the game?

[@LogicallyAnswered]

Still way cheaper than cable tv

[@jarskii11]

This the reason I opened utorrent again for many years. Damn it brought back many memories...

[@chrimony]

@@LogicallyAnswered But more expensive than zero.

[@Sataka23clips]

​@@LogicallyAnswered it's not about cable it's about ease of access. Why pay 50 bucks wen I can torrent everything . The economy is tough that 50 bucks I can put gas on my car

[@thrumbo]

qbittorrent is better this day, less bloat, no ad

[@ItsaB3AR]

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.

[@PDCMYTC]

$20 is still much cheaper than the cable TV "back in the days", and you also don't take into account inflation. How about you take these things into account in the original comment? But no, everyone talks only about things that benefit their opinion, if you talk about all aspects involved, that would be commendable.

[@EkatariZeen]

​@@PDCMYTC That's $20 times 5~ , did you not read the rest about how segmented the streaming market got that you need to have at least 5 different streaming services to watch a handful of decent shows?

[@zakofrx]

And you have lots of shows being edited or banned from viewing becsue of wokness. So many normal shows that you can no longer watch due to the fear the woke will protest...

[@bearwitnesswar]

Guess what happens when greedy corporations finally will manage to eliminate torrents and piracy, and establish absolute monopolies? Yeah, right, they'll rise the prices for the subscriptions to whatever they'll want. By paying subscriptions to greedy corporate streaming platforms, you are also contributing to their success in killing the freedom of the Internet, which includes access to data that not anyone is able to afford, and maybe you won't either, in some future. To those reading, think about that for a moment; is your temporary comfort worth that much?

[@mobiusbelts3607]

@@PDCMYTCHow old are you?

[@KasparL]

"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

[@verifeli]

First time?

[@Vednier]

And this is BECAUSE their cheap SVOD mostly killed torrenting. NOW they can start to get cream from cows.

[@IanHobday]

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".

[@kougamecs3876]

true

[@kowalskivideos6476]

Probably so. Emby and plex I imagine will become more household names if the economy collapses

[@IanHobday]

@@kowalskivideos6476 Most people lack the skills to set those up. Just download and play on Android TV or something like that.

[@alice_agogo]

in my country netflix used to be just $3 a month (now just over $5). still can't justify it since I only watch 1 or 2 shows or films a night, sometimes less. 😂

[@rollinontheboard]

qBitorrent !

[@johnnyboyzZ]

I used to love utorrent. But you’re right. The world changed and it just wasn’t needed as much.

[@coot33]

It's getting old now and version past 2.2.1 were very bad. Now 2.2.1 doesn't have the proper encryption.

[@saipulivarthi]

dont worry wit the current trend of subscriptions, torrent sites shall prevail again

[@cutiepielonely]

There are much better open source alternatives. It's good that people are realizing this now.

[@Lilblaisy3344]

funny i never really used utorrent all that much the past 10 years but the past 2 months i've been using it alot mostly for torrenting games. However i had to stop last week my ISP emailed me and said im downloading copyrighted material if i continue they'll cut my wifi off.

[@Asphyx12]

@@cutiepielonely Could you share us the alternatives pls?

[@kapilsharmaWorld_uncensored]

For some of us, it never died and might never die.

[@paigem]

This

[@kingconstantinusthesadisti133]

Then it will died with you.

[@simonchainbers8943]

It will never die 😂 I survive on Torrents....

[@marcopeterson805]

​@@simonchainbers8943upgrade to Qbittorrent

[@SKIDDOW]

haha please share a screenshot of your desktop with us...

[@GwG-aka-TheGoatee]

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.

[@0L1]

The irony, right? Torrent clients are bloated. Let's create a "micro torrent", and while we're at it, let's mine crypto and make entire villages black out.

[@GwG-aka-TheGoatee]

@@0L1 One thing I had to learn to do was to block "webhelper.exe" on my firewall, but still it caused overheating on my laptop from 2008. I was unable to locate the mining extension :(

[@alice_agogo]

one thing I do with overheating phones is to put them on concrete or tile floors. probably won't work for americans since they love those wood tiles. something I cannot fathom 😂

[@joebob2311productions]

It's weird I probably never noticed this if it was occuring because around that time I got a new laptop and had my old one running torrents as a remote desktop file server and anything slow on it just immediately made me think it's the hard drive, since the new laptop I got had an SSD

[@GwG-aka-TheGoatee]

@@joebob2311productions I replaced the HDD on my old torrent laptop with an SSD, it would turn on quickly, but overheating continued. That was how I noticed.

[@odinfatherofthor]

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.

[@0L1]

Yes, but... I would happily spend maybe 80 USD a month for the ability to stream any movie or TV show that exists in digital form. Instead, I have to pay half the price for like 5 subscriptions and keep switching Chrome tabs to find what I'm looking for. It's not about money. Torrents + Plex are simply ten times more convenient, even in 2023. When set up right, it takes around 30 seconds from hitting the Download button to actually watching. Plus I know where to look for stuff. I remember there used to be this online "petition" called "Don't make me steal". 10 years later, nothing has changed.

[@HishighnessMrL]

You can now stream whilst a torrent downloads. But yea I agree with everything you said stopped using it since I got netflix

[@Aaron613V]

You seem to imply that torrents are slow. If this is your case you need to change trackers. There are forums that have supper fast trackers.

[@NaoyaYami]

@@Aaron613V It still depends on content. No matter how ast a tracker is, if there's only few seeding users and hundreds if not thousands of users downloading, the transfer will be slow (assuming typical usage of course - some stuff is actually seeded on proper servers or something with appropriate upload bandwidth).

[@Aaron613V]

@@NaoyaYami The beauty of private trackers. Fast and reliable.

[@warlock_r]

I still use it regularly. For legal reasons of course. Never bothered changing.

[@aymane.bencheikh]

The change to qbittorrent was very seamless for me. No ads, no tracking, no malware. You should give it a shot

[@Kynatosh]

Qbittorent is pretty good if you ever want to make a 2-minute switch

[@lilwoodiewood3457]

legal reasons your not going to jail for downloading torrents lol

[@rollinontheboard]

qBitTorrent

[@lussor1]

Dont use it!!!! Qbit torrent is the answer

[@GenjiPrime]

It's nice how the video is exactly 13:37 long, nice

[@ryt-is]

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.

[@dr_crimbo]

2.2 is last one before ads

[@bobzeepl]

newer torrents and magnets dont work with that version, I did the same but had to swith to qbit - which is kinda what utorrent used to be

[@dr_crimbo]

@@bobzeepl I use 2.2.1 and tbh I have no problems,

[@bobzeepl]

@@dr_crimbo I checked when I installed qBit and it was 12/2022, so that is when it started for me. Like 30 percent of torrents did nothing at all after trying to open them in utorrent. Others worked fine but it was annoying to look for an alternative torrent that will work. Who knows, I probably havent reinstalled system in like 5 years, it could be that, but I am happy now :)

[@HERKELMERKEL]

2.2 works most the the trackers.. heck, the newest version even paid pro one doesn't do much.. it doesnt have dark mode.. it is STIL 32BIT APP LOL :====)))

[@maiyannah]

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.

[@skelebro9999]

You unlocked a core memory I thought I have buried a long time ago...

[@LogicallyAnswered]

The good ol days indeed

[@Synertry_]

Ahoy matey!

[@skelebro9999]

@@Synertry_ ahoy!

[@RobertOortwijn]

I use Deluge because of it's simple no bullshit UI. It's clean and does what it needs to does.

[@connivingkhajiit]

Same here but with Transmission

[@sprockkets]

@@connivingkhajiit I use both but only deluge has support for btguard's proxy setup.

[@shyflyf3772]

​@@connivingkhajiitwhenever tried to use out-of-the-box Transmission on Ubuntu/Mint, it never worked had to download qBit

[@queeniegreengrass3513]

Qbitorrent

[@toyomade]

Also a fan of deluge

[@RB-fp8hn]

I always called it mutorrent. Never knew utorrent was also acceptable.

[@LogicallyAnswered]

Ah yeah, mutorrent is common in certain countries

[@dpounder101]

​@@LogicallyAnsweredno, it's mu torrent or microtorrent. People just say utorrent because they don't know that it's mu not u. It has nothing to do with what country you're in, mu is a Greek letter used as a prefix meaning micro.

[@potatonite2340]

​@@dpounder101"um, actually" 🤓

[@chiquita683]

Wtf

[@DyceFreak]

@@dpounder101 It's not that people didn't know that it's mu, it's that people didn't know how to TYPE µ as your comment proves...

[@bharath2508]

There are better torrent options now.

[@2hotflavored666]

qBittorrent gang

[@freedom4651]

Transmission is still the best cross-platform torrent client

[@qq84]

@@freedom4651 and qBittorrent.

[@GeekNerdNoir]

Deluge was also quite popular and took some of utorrent's userbase. Deluge even got a product placement inside hit tv series Mr Robot.

[@HarringtonsApocy]

I’ll add the perspective that as a casual pirater who’s not really techy or into tech stuff i used to use it all the time, but i just don’t need files anymore, i still pirate just as much, but as a casual pirater, even pirating has moved past enduser file needing. I can stream illegal content just as easily, and on devices that torrents either are inaccessible on or getting them would be WAY too much for someone like me who doesn’t know techy things

[@MangaGamified]

Hiking prices, content diluting and segregation to multiple apps, often low quality to save bandwidth for their server, as some youtuber said "If paying is not owning, pirating is not stealing" . Not to be confused with being cheap as I own many offline apps and shows. I also rented 1 month for many of my pirated apps, so I had already paid for them.

[@JS-bf9dw]

To be honest, nowadays I rather buy the game ...much safer, no issues with updates, no viruses, etc. ...PLUS - I want to support the creator/s, because I almost exclusively go for indie games and those games/people fully deserve it

[@AS-wd5hb]

games are getting expensive. I was just thinking to torrent few newer games. Dont know if I can even get torrents now. XD

[@saddocatto9245]

I will absolutely Pirate from greedy AAA company games. Indie game tho? Always buy it no matter how shitty that game is.

[@Linkachus17]

until you realize some game and software work better when pirated. This is the case for those games with DeNuvo DRM and old Rockstar games like Manhunt

[@enosunim]

I pirated games, when was young, there was little games which could be bought anyways, and which I can afford were even less. There were items which I bought, before Internet was available, but those were pirate versions too. When Steam and GOG was available, I bought a lot of titles. Also those which I played in my childhood, those were just copies from my friends at the time. Also bought a lot of modern titles. After a year or two I realized I have no time to play al those games anymore... And I do not really want to play all of them. I have a lot of games even from my childhood, which are still not completed. So I am kinda a retro gamer now. And old games can be often downloaded for free, as abadonware. Often even when old games are bought, you need to fiddle with them to run on modern OS. And no way GOG installer will work on retro PC, like Windows 98 OS, while game may be a DOS version, installer would not launch and will yell "You need Windows 10 for that". = ) So what's the point anyway? And I stopped buying games for several years already. The quality of modern games is another question. I am not really regret, that I do not have time for modern games. Most I did not want really to play. I remember McGee's American Alice on Quake 3 engine. And when I bought new version, and was ready to submerge into new gameplay. I found out that PC version was poorly ported from console. Mouse was unusable. I was feeling, like playing Final Fantasy VIII on PC. It also have weird controls, as it is a PSX PC port. After that was Max Payne 3. Which was really a bad GTA clone, in which you could not drive cars for some reason. I was disappointed. And they still did not fixed "still loading" thingy, now on SSD this looks ridiculous. They introduces those 'awards' thingy, even to some old games. And it was funny, for a while, but later, when it come to all games... No it is not funny anymore. And so on and so forth. Well, may be I am just too old for this s...t = )

[@leo6659]

bro edges on poor devs

[@kowalskivideos6476]

Torrent use will be on the rise if the economy starts going to crap even further. These streaming services are getting too greedy

[@Wolfrich666]

the world will always need decentralized systems, so long as oppressive governments or corporations exist, people will give the middle finger to those who want to monopolize information and power.

[@neiltropolis]

Great memories, uTorrent and the Bay. The internet was a lot of fun back then. Great up!

[@chiquita683]

uTorrent became part of the problem when they started embedding malware and ads into their program. People have found other ways 🦜

[@hello-friend990]

It was the wild west for sure. I've seen things I can never unsee from the 2000s. One video was so gross I still talk about it at the pub 15 years later 😂

[@kylek29]

TPB is still very much alive, just as torrents are. uTorrent died for other reasons.

[@corcoos]

It's absolutely the same in this regard.

[@alice_agogo]

compressed avi was not fun. nope. and my dvd player from 2006 can't accept so I had to convert which further reduced the quality.

[@bob_obba]

Ironically I may or may not have used the pirate version once they put ads into it, then the html version assassinated it for me

[@LogicallyAnswered]

I guess we’ll never know

[@OldTime--Gamer]

now i remember why i never installed the new version

[@idrathernot_2]

What I really want to know is how expensive can this operation be? They don't host, they dont run trackers, every thing is p2p. At this point in the game this should be a one or two man side project.

[@AhmadAbib]

I remember the days when the "u" or micro or whatever the heck is that actually meant something, it's very light than other clients, it was like less than 1MB to download, then came the "big" updates, and I instantly hated the new ones, can't stand the UI, and my potato torrent PC worked really hard when using uTorrent in the background, so I tried to keep using the old version until accepted there won't be a future for uTorrent, so I migrated to other client...

[@Lunair]

Something I’m curious about, did the popularity of Usenet grow when torrenting was decreasing?

[@thecalham]

I doubt it use net has existed long before torrents its just a safer option more for the techies out there with automated media servers and Nas servers.

[@alice_agogo]

probably not since use net is generally not free

[@Xanthro2]

Goodness! I tried usenet groups back in like 02 and wew it was hard to nav for a noob like me "at the time". but there so deeply hidden now, least the good ones, that you need 2 leprechauns and unicorn to have enough luck finding them :D

[@XionicAihara]

Torrent clients are much more user friendly then use net. I can't imagine use net getting anymore popular then where it currently stands. I remember setting up my media server for the first time and just struggling to all hell on how the Linux system talks to the indexer and how that talks to radarr, sonar, etc. Then file pathing, it's just something I don't think I'd want to go through again if I lose my server.

[@toyomade]

I can’t find auditing on Usenet. I’m more security conscience and I know torrent software can be configured for Proxy and VPN. I don’t understand Usenet well enough, and yes I have done research, to “trust” it as much as torrenting. I think generally it’s faster, easier to find things, and it’s not as popular so blending in isn’t as easy. Nevermind the cookie-cutter responses about “nobody going to jail for downloading stuff”. I have reasons to care and they’re justified. Paying for Usenet would/might be worth it if it’s secure. Say more secure and anonymous than torrenting but obviously less so than the DW. Some files I’ve grabbed aren’t complete and finding things on TOR can be tricky so having a third option would be super handy. Even if you do find it on TOR grabbing an entire website could take an annoyingly long time. Anyway, all of that is to say, if anyone has input into Usenet at a more technical level, I’d be interested! Links are fine too!

[@jimster1111]

i remember getting my computer riddled with malware from utorrent itself. not even the stuff i downloaded.

[@LogicallyAnswered]

Hahaha

[@MegasXLR]

That's why I changed to qBitTorrent many years ago

[@lilwoodiewood3457]

it has a false positive u got it from somewhere else maybe the torrents u downloaded

[@alice_agogo]

never got any from utorrent 2006 to 2013. if i did I got protected by the great german free anti virus Antivir

[@rollinontheboard]

qbittorrent NOW

[@phlash65-5]

It’s still my primary torrent program, though I use like a 10 year old version of it on a VM that is constantly downloading stuff daily.

[@rollinontheboard]

QBITTORRENT

[@lussor1]

You should not. Qbittorrent is the only good one right now

[@zigzagtoes]

i hope you share some too, gotta keep torrents alive. I never used to, but if i get something that took a while to get (normally due to its age), I will keep it alive til i have shared it at least 10 times. everything else i have set to stop sharing after 5 uploads. And i wipe the list completely once a day except for the rare ones. My share ratio used to be like 0.2, but few years ago noticed the drop in availability for even new stuff, so changed my ways. my ratio is not great at all, but a massive improvement to how i was, it's now at 1.4 ratio.

[@grouchygamer2404]

So can game developers stop blaming piracy for their own failures and start producing good stuff again.

[@ultimaetsolder]

No they only make woke stuff and blame the audience. Resident Evil. Wow.

[@lilwoodiewood3457]

@@ultimaetsolder woke stuff u got a problem get out of the closet we can tell your hiding woke isnt a insult wanting human rights for every one isnt a insult the fact u use it as a insult makes u a bigot to every minority group out their wheather its race or religon nice title

[@vk3139]

That would take effort and talent, i wouldn't hold my breath waiting.

[@kosmosXcannon]

You know they will just continue blaming piracy and the investors will continue to be idiots.

[@MangaGamified]

IMO it's called Indie Games. Besides "If paying is not owning, then piracy is not stealing" like shutting down servers.

[@mkedzier123]

It used to be light weight torrent client. But then they wanted badly to monetize it, started adding ads and useless features and most torrent users migrated to different programs (or just used old version of utorrent from before the bloat).

[@MegasXLR]

Owned by Spotify ?? Wow

[@LogicallyAnswered]

At one point yep haha

[@Dj_Nizzo]

11:30 Not sure if Piratebay was taken down for a short period of time in 2014, but it hasn’t gone anywhere as far as I know

[@rzpogi]

Tpb founders have gave up on it, but others have taken the mantle.

[@navixaxa5023]

Man, I loved uTorrent. My old Gaming PC still has a lot of games, movies and music I'd torrented. I'd torrented entire COD MWs, ETS 2, ATS, NFS' etc etc. But you're right. I haven't used uTorrent for the past 7-8 years. Lol it isn't even installed on my PCs. Truly an era. Just like iPods were once. Made sense back then. Now? Nah. Btw, you're a South Indian, right?

[@_macrophage]

Video run time is 1337. I see what you did there

[@LogicallyAnswered]

Hahaha, didn’t do it on purpose

[@tr3pidatioN]

@@LogicallyAnsweredyou are just so 1337, that 1337 just happens

[@tokyojon4344]

Cool !!

[@u0aol1]

​@@LogicallyAnsweredthat's what they all say

[@disdroid]

I'll never forget limewire

[@CatPajamas]

i think it's also because 'normal' people nowadays just rely on streaming services and associate stuff like torrents with viruses. like i read some days ago, people are becoming less and less tech savvy xD

[@MangaGamified]

Good, more charles darwin natural-selecting themselves ever closer to less financial stability 😅 Also that news is just more businesses for the charles darwins 🤣

[@Rleatfitness]

With the way streaming platforms are going and trying to force you to use tiers with ads and not share accounts I can see torrents making a comeback

[@chatival]

Love the vid but please tone down the transitions. I think they are too much

[@LogicallyAnswered]

Appreciate the feedback chati

[@hello-friend990]

​@@LogicallyAnsweredmy gripe is with the background music. It's overly sad and melodic for such a casual topic

[@subhajitdasgupta1644]

Love the 13:37 minute video

[@JoshuaDoesTech]

Came here to say that

[@marciusnhasty]

Microtorrent. First letter is Greek letter micro μ, not English u. Edit: Serbia, Greece is really close, but also the letter is heavily used in math and science. Letter is important, as micro was key marketing way telling users it's smaller than Vuze and such.

[@yrmuq]

its all in the video

[@SeigneurSidious]

I’m from the French West Indies, and my friends and I always called it « micro torrent ». We were science students, so we immediately recognized the greek letter.

[@Sonmz]

The answer to your question. As for location, I am a Russian from Ukraine. For me µTorrent has always been read as muTorrent. The reason is the Greek symbol "µ", which is read that way. Same as mu-opioid receptors 😉, for example.

[@SheksgemWhepdo]

Russian from Ukraine? U in the army or something...?

[@XionicAihara]

The few private trackers im a part of, they only whitelist 1 version of utorrent. Thats 2.2.5 ,so it probably doesnt help that only 1 version of utorrent is allowed and the reason is security vulnerabilities in recent releases. So alot of us moved to qbt instead. Rarely do i even see the utorrent used anymore.

[@PanduPoluan]

Plus qbt is open source. People can see what's in it, and no one ever found anything malicious inside. Paranoid users -- and also Gentoo Linux users -- can simply compile from source if they distrust the binaries.

[@Matt2010]

TPB though still does exist. And there's plenty of free torrent clients as well.

[@Xanthro2]

Crazy video, thank you! I still use old af versions of Ut when I want something I cant get legit, but with that now shrinking in size, I dont really bother to use it much anymore now.

[@SkytorRushTV]

I like the video length 😏 gamers numbers

[@LogicallyAnswered]

Hahaha, just noticed that too. What a coincidence

[@DwAboutItManFr]

Wait, utorrent is not as popular anymore?

[@thrumbo]

its have been replaced with qbittorrent after they made lot of decision that the comunity hate.

[@falsemcnuggethope]

It's advisable to use better clients like qBittorrent.

[@danielvasquez3758]

I don’t even know what that is but thank you for telling us brother!!

[@LogicallyAnswered]

Hahaha 😂

[@Rncko]

Sailing the seas soon brother? All your fav anime, shows and Microsoft Offices, Adobe Editors are calling~~~

[@theelastog1580]

What apps or steps can be taken to help ensure security when torrenting ?

[@YoloTub3]

I just use virus total for scanning apps. If u live in a country with piracy laws, you'll probably need vpn so u don't get copyright infringe notif from your isp

[@neoxnet]

It’s still totally a great app for downloading Linux ISOs…

[@rollinontheboard]

qbittorrent

[@falsemcnuggethope]

There are many better clients out there.

[@AlexanderJansen]

I use torrents to distribute FOSS software. At the moment I use Windows and Vuze, and all my torrents are FOSS applications like GIMP. Though I use Vuze rather than µTorrent.

[@staarg-d5s]

​@@falsemcnuggethopewhite-green, deluge, transmission. All open source, and not malware. Unlike uTorrent.

[@mattimhiyasmith]

What is with the weird sound effect where it flips headphones left/right?

[@EmuEmuchu]

I mostly use torrents for downloading linux ISO's or obscure media They can target these things maybe

[@tomwaller6893]

No mention of BiglyBT then?

[@Roger-cg4po]

That is not the letter "u" it is the Greek letter Mu. It is used (among other things) as a prefix to denote a numerical power of the base of ten to the minus 6. As a consequence of this it could well be pronounced Microtorrent, which would be in reference to the applications small size.

[@MeTheCoolDude]

Well done, you repeated what the video said

[@Roger-cg4po]

@@MeTheCoolDude Well done, you were triggered by an innocuous comment.... Not too cool dude.

[@okage_]

been watching the videos for a while now and i always thought you had millions of subscribers. you're very underrated and your videos are very addicting!

[@DasLooney]

Loved this video except for the sponsored bit / ad that you did not mark or show that it was an ad. The way it segued was smooth and deliberate. As sketchy AF as when uTorrent added that hidden cryptomining... please don't do that again.

[@KettenDriver]

Did you get a new editor for the beginning segment? Doesn’t seem like your usual style and it doesn’t appear in the rest of the video

[@onecalledalex]

uTorrent is still kicking lol. This video make things sounds more ghastly than it actually is

[@PanduPoluan]

Gabe Newell was prescient. He once said that "Piracy is an issue of service". The rise of Spotify, Netflix, and of course Steam, those brought down the torrents.

[@jhevier]

Great topics bro and great execution

[@LogicallyAnswered]

Thanks man!

[@TheAtariSan]

Been using transmission since 2010, never looked back.

[@aaronus9871]

The waiting has ended. (Love your videos btw)

[@LogicallyAnswered]

Thanks for being early aaron!

[@tomwaller6893]

No mention of BiglyBT (Vuze) then?

[@rustymustard7798]

It's not that i stopped pirating stuff, it's just that there's been nothing even worth watching or playing, much less pirating in the past decade lol. What am i gonna do, pirate a half finished asset flip of AAA game or shitty woke 'reboot' of a movie? No thanks, i can find better use of my time than consuming basic shoveled out garbage.

[@theelastog1580]

Yes I’ve taken the black pill too

[@008ay.sumanth7]

the reason i quit utorrent and switched to bittorrent is because of ads and for some reason it wont just start downloading.

[@millabasset1710]

Zoomers are tech illiterate, that’s what happened to torrenting

[@theelastog1580]

That’s what the boomers say about gen x and millennials

[@IOSARBX]

Logically Answered, I really enjoyed this video, so I hit the like button!

[@uss-dh7909]

Oh boy, to dig back into my early/mid teenage years. What a trip.

[@brettrace]

Canuck here. Called it "you" torrent but did notice that it was supposed to be "micro" torrent.

[@westtell4]

i have a feeling movie/tv show torrenting will be coming back.. with so many streaming options and the prices of those streaming options getting so high

[@fmo94jos8v3]

Pirate Bay is still online, they never went away.

[@jasonbourneistreadstone]

Yup. And it has mirror sites all over the place. This video is so off-base when talking about the decline of torrenting as well. There is no decline. If anything, torrenting is more alive than ever. Sure, you can stream something and waste bandwidth each time. Or have it locally forever with a torrent. Plus, how much are you paying for streaming services? Factor that in too.

[@theFishy_]

Im still using it, didnt even know people moved on, what yall use now to download torrents?

[@falsemcnuggethope]

qBittorrent is one good option.

[@fluf201playz]

why did you change the tumbnail? from the utorrent ogo and a basic easy to read thumbnail that stook out to a stock image of some one torrenting

[@SDsc0rch]

isn't it pronounced "mew"torrent? as in, the Greek letter right there in its name??

[@ulhasgupta8377]

Is it only me or his audio seems not in sync with video when the narrator is on screen.

[@theelastog1580]

What is a lightweight torrent client used today ?

[@0L1]

qBitTorrent

[@YdenMk-II]

Huh, utorrent added a crypto miner at one point? The point where I ditched the software was when they started adding ads and other bloat into the client.

[@ravitejaknts]

In India, we used call it Meu Torrents. However, India is fricking big and I cannot talk about all the regions here.

[@dsmith4658]

so what are people using now ?

[@qq84]

Transmission or qBittorrent

[@finalfanvii6822]

I pay for everything now. I still emulate but because all new consoles aren’t going to last when they use servers unlike in the past where you just needed a disk or a .file and still be able to play it.

[@flirineltd6921]

Stopped using it because it was super slow and freezing and crashing constantly, alot of times mid download.

[@qq84]

Yes, there are way better clients like Transmission and qBittorrent.

[@dexter-j9d]

i still use torrents where do you think i get my tv shows ?

[@aliozanerbektas]

It isn't dead. Why would you ever google it if you already installed it. That graph only shows that people are not formatting their computers as often as they used to. 🤦‍♀️

[@Sataka23clips]

Im never paying for streaming when I can torrent everything and watch it with ease

[@theelastog1580]

What torrent client do u use

[@0L1]

@@theelastog1580 qBitTorrent is the way. There's also Transmission and Deluge, but QBT is basically uTorrent without the bullshit and open-source

[@lilwoodiewood3457]

ok we get itt your a bum

[@alice_agogo]

​@@theelastog1580use libre torrent for android

[@FernandoAstudillo64]

I didn't know it died ...still use it ....

[@JEAGERlST]

10:05 What you were looking for.

[@RahulMehra0361]

Funny Thing is that the New Generation don't even know what is Torrent , which is Weird and Funny at the same time.

[@flumiie]

µTorrent was like my holy grail for downloading cracked games and softwares back in my high school (somewhere around 2008)

[@Artoooooor]

The program stopped being "micro". And started swelling with ads.

[@osteoclast6884]

Does utorrent still have bloat ware? I have it on my phone for audiobooks😬

[@harikrishnanchandramohan4209]

Be careful with sponsors bro. The duck is important than the golden eggs.

[@drucewayne]

Yup. I remember all of that drama bright as day. Also remember explaining the weird writing of the "u" letter.

[@OneAndOnlyZekePolaris]

Why would Spotify be connected to uTorrent when Spotify isn't about torrenting anything at all?

[@UltimaceX]

as netflix etc become more expensive and more different streaming services are available on subscription bases more people are going back to utorrent because people dont want to have 10 different stream services for there series etc. then utorrent will thrive again.

[@giapchin]

Isn’t it mandatory to disclose advertisement or sponsorship in the video? Seems like you just sneaked one in

[@MichaelHarto]

I think only in certain countries like UK

[@LogicallyAnswered]

Hey giapchin, disclosures are in the description. Also, it’s our own product, not an external sponsorship :)