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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. 1/3rd of all traffic? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    stop all the downloadin.

    1. Re:1/3rd of all traffic? by ZackSchil · · Score: 4, Funny

      Help Computer.

    2. Re:1/3rd of all traffic? by wheany · · Score: 3, Funny

      I don't know much about computers.

    3. Re:1/3rd of all traffic? by Segway+Ninja · · Score: 1, Funny

      Other than the one one I got at my house, my mom put a couple of games on there and I play it...

  2. But... by TheKidWho · · Score: 3, Funny

    Does it have an FM tuner?

  3. Irony. by DarkHelmet · · Score: 5, Funny
    http://www.bittorrent.com/index.html

    Is it just me... but does anyone else find it ironic that there isn't a torrent available for downloading Bittorrent?

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    1. Re:Irony. by cdsr · · Score: 5, Funny

      would you like to download winzip.zip too?

    2. Re:Irony. by Nermal6693 · · Score: 2, Funny

      StuffIt (essentially WinZip for Mac) was once distributed as a .sit file. :)

  4. Great! I Love BitTorrent. by Murdock037 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Because I hate going to the theater to see... uh, Linux binaries.

  5. bulk data by vespazzari · · Score: 5, Funny

    is bulk data what fat chick pr0n is being referred to nowdays?

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  6. Indeed... by inertia187 · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...which is significant considering that about a third of all Internet traffic is currently torrent data.

    Too bad it's all broken copies of LG3D.

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  7. aww hell no by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    whassup dog?

  8. Great news... by jedimark · · Score: 3, Funny

    Now if only I could convince my stinking ISP that downloading linux ISO's is not illegal :-)

  9. Marking Packets Correctly by Red+Pointy+Tail · · Score: 5, Funny

    I hope packets are also marked with the evil bit too, which is significant considering that most of all Torrent traffic is currently evil data.

  10. Re:yep by commodoresloat · · Score: 5, Funny
    why bother with Firefox when we've got Safari?

    You misspelled "Camino".

  11. Re: Long-Awaited BitTorrent 4.0 Released by yrogerg · · Score: 3, Funny

    To be honest, I haven't been waiting at all.