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@American_Jesus@lemm.ee to Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish • 4 months ago

Radarr now suggests not to use uTorrent

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Radarr now suggests not to use uTorrent

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@American_Jesus@lemm.ee to Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish • 4 months ago
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  • richmondez
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    130•4 months ago

    If it keeps newcomers from making mistakes in client choice it looks like a good thing to me?

    • @rijom@lemmy.ml
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      14•4 months ago

      But is the statement correct? What’s the story behind uTorrent?

      • @unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de
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        122•4 months ago

        μTorrent, or uTorrent (see pronunciation), is a proprietary adware BitTorrent client owned and developed by Rainberry, Inc.

        That should be enough for any sane person. A proprietary bittorrent client is the worst joke i have heard in a while.

        https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ΜTorrent

        • The Ramen Dutchman
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          21•4 months ago

          An adware whatever should also be avoided.

      • @aislopmukbang@sh.itjust.works
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        68•4 months ago

        Yes. It stopped being good around 2010-2012 depending on who you ask. Unfortunately there are still plenty of old blog posts praising it. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ΜTorrent

        • @whats_all_this_then@programming.dev
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          1•4 months ago

          This. For most people, they either hated the 3.0 update (assuming 2010), or hated the enshittification after 3.2.2 (assuming 2012).

      • @banghida@lemm.ee
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        51•4 months ago

        The parent company, bittorrent Inc got purchased by a serial crypto scammer Justin Sun at some point.

        In March 2022, the SEC charged Rainberry with fraud for selling cryptocurrencies Tronix (TRX) and BitTorrent (BTT) as unregistered securities.

        I think the SEC dropped all charges recently because the literal US government got on the payroll of Tether Inc, which basically runs the crypto show. Justin is just one of the appendages to the scheme.

      • @American_Jesus@lemm.eeOP
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        After uTorrent was brought by BitTorrent Inc, they started releasing new shady versions, first added ads then released uTorrent bundle with crypto mining software without user consent

        https://torrentfreak.com/new-utorrent-release-breaks-ties-with-bitcoin-miner-150413/

        • RedSnt 👓♂️🖥️
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          24•4 months ago

          They speedran the enshittification process, so quickly the term wasn’t even invented yet.

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