UTorrent was publicly released in 2005 (version 1.1 beta) as a much lighter (bloatware-free) alternative to the BitTorrent Mainline client- thus, the odd “μ” in μTorrent, which is the Greek letter “mu,” for micro. They took the BitTorrent client and created the newest version, BitTorrent Speed. As of 2018, the Rainberry company was acquired by TRON, a decentralized and open-source blockchain-based OS. First, the software became proprietary and ad-supported, and second, the BitTorrent developers took the code from uTorrent and created a rebranded BitTorrent version of uTorrent.
The last version of the original BitTorrent was BitTorrent 5.30 (free and open-source).īelow is a snapshot (thanks to Wayback Machine) of the BitTorrent homepage during the 4.2.0 release (prior to 6.0).ĭuring the BitTorrent version 6.0 release, there were a couple of dramatic changes. The BitTorrent client is also referred to as the BitTorrent Mainline.
BitTorrent (torrent downloader) was the first torrent client developed purposefully for the BitTorrent protocol. In 2001, Bram Cohen created the popular BitTorrent protocol and its first client with the same name. One is the company, another is the protocol, and the last is the torrent downloader software. Side note: Do not confuse BitTorrent Inc, BitTorrent, and BitTorrent Client. uTorrent differences using history-How the two “historically” quite distinct and competitive torrent downloaders evolved into twin brothers. uTorrent Classic is supported by Windows, Linux, and macOS, while BitTorrent Classic is only supported by Windows. The classic version of both clients is not supported by the same platforms. (former BitTorrent, Inc.), responsible for the continuous development of the one and only BitTorrent P2P protocol and the two torrent clients, uTorrent and BitTorrent, along with many other products. Both belong to the same company, Rainberry, Inc. BitTorrent and uTorrent are both proprietary (closed-source software) BitTorrent clients supported by ads (adware).
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