Utorrent 1.7.2 - crazy claims amd rambling seperating these from the facts.

[kasass]

Can anybody tell me if uTorrent 1.7.2 is safe to use?
If any of you actually use uTorrent?
What is the truth about these claims all over the internet that u Torrent is
getting banned from certain sites for no reason and that
it is getting banned because some people claim to have found out
that uTorrent reports to the MPAA if you are downloading illegally?
Can someone verify this and tell me the truth about this?
Because i love uTorrent and i don't want to delete it
because of some claim or another.
Thank you to whoever can verify this.
uTorrent is a great OS and software.

[isus]

uTorrent 1.7.2 is safe. The people who think it is somehow "bad" software are beyond paranoid. Don't you think that if it really was reporting to the MPAA or any other organization, someone would have noticed?

[etos45]

It's not so much beyond paranoid. I mainly don't use it because it's banned on almost every tracker I use. Whatever their reason is, it's pretty much useless if no one accepts it. Besides, I believe in "better safe than sorry". For all intents and purposes, it could be collecting data and just holding on to it for a mass grab. Like with xbox live. They new who was using modded xboxs on xbox live, but they waited until they had a nice handful of people and did a massive ban on all of them. Just a thought, though.

[dolby71]

uTorrent is a great OS and software.

ummm.... right.:icon_scra

[reloco10]

uTorrent 1.7.2 - here - OK

[enter8]

Fact... utorrent is indirectly owned by the MPAA. Do a google search.

Regardless of whether or not it reports to anyone, if you're dumb enough to use software owned by the movie industry to download copyrighted movies... you deserve your fate.

[HelenaP]

I am an idiot, but I hate Azureus (did I spell it correctly?).
Are there any alternatives?

[enter8]

Done ;)

As far as utorrent goes... version 1.6 predates the Bittorrent/MPAA takeover, and, from what I can tell, 1.6.1 is still fairly 'safe' as well. If I were extremely paranoid, I might go with 1.6, but, unfortunately, 1.6.1 is a much tighter/less buggy piece of software.

If you want a tracker that isn't bloated/works well/is accepted everywhere and is relatively safe from containing a trojan... I'd obtain utorrent 1.6.1 (from somewhere other than utorrent.com), turning off the auto updates and staying with it until something better comes along.

For what it is and when it was released, utorrent 1.6.1 is a beautiful piece of software. It's only a matter of time, though, before the P2P community outgrows it and starts looking for greater functionality. I, for one, would love the ability to group torrents into folders and allocate bandwith by folder and/or by tracker.

Azureus, imo, is not the answer. I'm hoping that something else comes along that's better. Hopefully sooner rather than later.

[HelenaP]

OK! I am already using 1.6.1. I switched back after I saw the first thread about it. I used uTorrent 1.7.2 all of about 3 minutes.
So, you are saying that I should not be using the app from their site? That I should download from a mirror site?

[enter8]

So, you are saying that I should not be using the app from their site?

Yes, that's what I'm saying. It's probably a little over paranoid, but it's based on the fact that if I was the MPAA and owned utorrent, I would probably swap out all the old versions on the website with trojan infested ones.

[wanchoo]

It is a dumb question, but what is MPAA?

Amarnath Wanchoo

[isus]

It is a dumb question, but what is MPAA?

Amarnath Wanchoo

Motion Picture Association of America.

Like the RIAA, except for movies.

[wanchoo]

Checked with Google and found this.

uTorrent Relaunched as Official BitTorrent Client
Written by Ernesto on July 27, 2007

The rebranded version of uTorrent looks just like the original uTorrent client, however, it now includes BitTorrent DNA. Another significant change is the absence of the built in search for sites like Mininova, Torrentz and The PirateBay. However, you can easily add those under options –> preferences.

Last year, when BitTorrent Inc acquired uTorrent, it was said that the client will continue to have its own website and community for a while. Many expected that the launch of the rebranded uTorrent client as the mainline BitTorrent client would be the end of uTorrent, but this is not the case. When we asked BitTorrent Inc CEO Ashwin Navin about the future of uTorrent and the uTorrent community he told us:

“utorrent.com and uTorrent community will exist indefinitely. It’s vibrant and growing, and we value the feedback provided in the forums a lot. It is not our plan to fold utorrent.com into bittorrent.com, but foster growth for both independently.”

Great news, but some (former) uTorrent users will always have their doubts. Ever since BitTorrent Inc took over, a lot of rumors started popping up, and uTorrent was even banned from several private BitTorrent trackers.

Most people were afraid that uTorrent was sending data to the MPAA or other anti-piracy outfits. These rumors were fueled by the fact that one of the uTorrent Beta releases was marked as a trojan by some anti-virus applications. Here at TorrentFreak we looked into the suspicious behavior reported by some of our readers, but up until now we did not find any hard evidence to support these claims. With Wireshark we tried to replicate the findings reported by some users several times, both on virtual machines and in use systems, but we didn’t find anything suspicious.

But I’m sure this won’t comfort the really paranoid people among us.

Seems that information is being sent to MPAA is not right. I use uTorrent and none of my trackers including Demonoid and TorrentLeech have ever banned it.

Amarnath Wanchoo

[rick9]

Dont download copyrighted or illegal-material is the answer!

[enter8]

Dont download copyrighted or illegal-material is the answer!

*hitting myself on the head*

Now why didn't I think of that? ;)

[Zoness]

I don't use uTorrent at all, I'm not afraid of it per se, but I do perfer other clients (wierd eh?)

Starting with anything newer than uTorrent 1.6.1 my Peer Guardian starting blocking outgoing connections to a single IP on my UDP port for the client. PG identified this IP with the string "Swiftic AB".

But that's all I have for you.

[meyou123]

Dont download copyrighted or illegal-material is the answer!

That is about like the ISP's expecting everyone to pay for a high speed account and only check email or surf with it....brilliant! Got news for you...ain't gonna happen....and it won't happen with people only downloading legal stuff with torrents either.

As far as the original post...I do understand the concern of a company being indirectly owned by the MPAA....which has sued dead people for crying out loud! On the other hand...you can get SO paranoid, you think the sky is falling when it is not.

So it is really up to the user as to what they use...for some...a little bit of change in a BT client is a good thing....for others it means them not using that client anymore because of the company that owns it and the information they might try and collect on potential users for future lawsuits.

But so far, no one has been able to validate the claims that the MPAA or even RIAA is tracking users of this client. So it really is up to you and what you believe about such claims.

The thing to keep in mind about Bit Torrent in general...is that even though it is one of the most widely used protocols of file sharing....it is also one of the easiest to get information from by people that may want to sue for having their illegal content on their computer and uploading it to a site or another person.

A lot of people will say that Private BT sites are "safer" than public BT sites and that is somewhat true..... but ask loki torrents or elite torrent owners and they will tell you that private BT sites can STILL BE RAIDED BY THE FBI!

So when you use BT as a protocol it is a risk....but thankfully...there are so many BT sites out there that it becomes hard to choose which to belong to, but it is also as hard for the authorities to shut a lot down...when most are outside the US nowdays.

[TimmyJan]

the new one worked fine for me.