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Long-Awaited BitTorrent 4.0 Released

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the quite-a-thing dept.

wintermute1974 writes "After sitting at a stable release of 3.4.2 since last spring, Bram Cohen's official BitTorrent client has been upgraded to version 4. In addition to its existing, rock-steady functionality, BitTorrent now sports a new queue-based UI. The revision details are on the BitTorrent site. Packets are now marked as bulk data too, which is significant considering that about a third of all Internet traffic is currently torrent data."

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  1. Re:BitSpirit... by cheekyboy · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    I got sick of BS giving me 4x upload than download, seeing 2kb download and 11kb upload was real anoying not to mention after downloading 200meg, my ISP count said I downloaded ~300meg+ so obviously theres a lot of dupes of blocks/retries/bogus traffic.

    Maybe its better now, but ill stick to bitspirit

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  2. Et tu BitTorrent!! by thewalled · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Noooooo!! not BitTorrent. As per www.bittorrent.com, the site's development was outsourced to a company called 'The GSI Group' OR may i say off-shored since 'The GSI Group' has an Indian development center.

    So do you americans (let me be more specific, US citizens) stop using bittorrent and start cribbing?? OR does life continue..

    - dhawal
    Proudly Indian

  3. Re:Linux needs a gui alt to azureus by Toy+G · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    You know what? You are right. Now, given that Azureus is OSS, and BitTorrent is OSS, and pretty much any other BT client is OSS, why don't YOU get started and use your C++ m4d sk1llZ to dig into their code and then build up this "required" application? Otherwise, please shut up and be grateful to the Azureus team.

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