uTorrent and MPAA?

[Mr.Shaky]

A year or more ago I read that the BitTorrent company went legit, and teamed up with MPAA. Then I read they chose--and bought--uTorrent for their offical client. Fearing that uTorrent was "calling home" with info on what I was downloading, I switched to Azureus.

Azureus keeps crashing on Windows 7, so I'm considering looking for a better client. I'm seeing that uTorrent is all the rage. Has the rumor about MPAA been forgotten, or proven false, or what?

[thelastfreeman]

With the majority of torrent users preferring uTorrent, there's probably more of us than people who use TPB. Either way, they are after site admins and in rare cases uploaders not downloaders.

[mountain_rage]

Be AFRAID!!! be very AFRAID!!!!

[PhilipBarclay]

Been using this for over a year. If I get any letters I'll let you know.

[ntixitjo]

same, but now you've got me worried. was this a reputable source you heard this from (i.e., the companies themselves)? cuz i've never heard anything like that...

[Aaron_Walkhouse]

Unzip this into C:\Documents and Settings\You\Application Data\uTorrent:
http://www3.telus.net/Aaron_Walkhouse/IPFilter.zip
That'll make you feel a wee bit safer.

[mp3MaStA88]

i've been using utorrent ever since it was in beta stage. no problems whatsoever. I'm assuming all is well. i've never gotten a single letter from comcast nor timewarner (my new provider since i moved to southern california). and i use public trackers mainly like isohunt and piratebay. you don't have anything to worry about.

[1cooldude]

A year or more ago I read that the BitTorrent company went legit, and teamed up with MPAA. Then I read they chose--and bought--uTorrent for their offical client. Fearing that uTorrent was "calling home" with info on what I was downloading, I switched to Azureus.

Azureus keeps crashing on Windows 7, so I'm considering looking for a better client. I'm seeing that uTorrent is all the rage. Has the rumor about MPAA been forgotten, or proven false, or what?

if you're referring to this post then I would say that this has been around for a while and it's very much a recycled news.

http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?id=26619

As thelastfreeman had already mentioned both MPAA and RIAA are after the bigger fish (most of the time) and are trying to shut down p2p business. From their vantage point it makes a lot more sense to go after the source of p2p than a single individual simply because of the amount of money and resources is guided by the fact that if you shut down a lrge tracker or a site they just have slayed the dragon and not the tail.

[awdrifter]

Avoid uTorrent, it's caught trying to phone home.
http://forums.phoenixlabs.org/showthread.php?t=15361

I linked that e-mail IP to a person by the name of Tarquin Douglass. I did a google search on that name and found that somebody by that name works for a company called Netsoft Inc. Here is their page http://www.netsoft-inc.com/ or perhaps it is this one www.netsoftinc.net/, either way, it is bad. Get Azureus now. uTorrent trying to e-mail information security companies equals bad.

[thelastfreeman]

This is over a year old! How dare to try to frighten us with old intel. Nice try, Cohen.

[beat@pp]

yeah im still para about that guy tbh, think if he was offerd enough money he would soon sell us all out. ive stuck to ut 1.7 and wont update tbh. also i use b4rt on linux so dont need a torrent client like ut as much anymore.

[Smoovious]

The link shows uT trying to connect to a remote peer that is using port 25, the SMTP port, only. ZoneAlarm is calling it email only because of the port being used. It isn't bothering to check if it actually is email (and btw, anyone with any brains trying to send email like that would be using a non-standard port in the first place, since spotting traffic to an email port is too obvious)

As for phoning home? I can assure you. "Home", for uTorrent/BitTorrent Inc., is definitely, _NOT_, South Africa...

-- Smoovious