nsane.forums Posted December 25, 2009 Share Posted December 25, 2009 Earlier this year several publications claimed that P2P and BitTorrent were dying because of the increased popularity of streaming sites. In reality, BitTorrent is about to close a record year in terms of traffic and usage.The misleading reports all based their conclusions on data supplied by a network-management firm, which showed that of all Internet traffic, the percentage consumed by P2P has slowly declined. However, those who take a closer look at the data will find that in absolute traffic, P2P continued to grow, with bandwidth used by streaming just growing a little bit faster.BitTorrent is by no means dying, nor is there a decline. Quite the opposite. All the major BitTorrent sites saw a significant increase in visitor numbers over the past months. TorrentFreak asked Simon Morris, BitTorrent's VP of Product Management, if this growth is also reflected in the usage stats of uTorrent.“Probably the emergence of things like Hulu and continued growth of Youtube make it seem like Bittorrent is not the only thing driving demand for consumer bandwidth. But we see no evidence whatever that BitTorrent clients are any less popular,” Morris told TorrentFreak. Around this time last year uTorrent had 28 million unique users a month, and by November 2009 this figure had almost doubled to 52 million monthly users. And things have been going equally well for uTorrent’s little brother, BitTorrent Mainline.“In addition to this, at the start of this year we saw almost 5 million monthly users of BitTorrent Mainline,” Morris said. “In November 2009 we saw over 10 million.”These statistics show that despite the legal setbacks The Pirate Bay, Mininova and isoHunt have faced in court, the number of people who are using BitTorrent has continued to grow significantly. There is no indication that this growth will slow, let alone stop, in 2010. The uTorrent development team also has some major improvements in the pipeline. Last week streaming support was added to the client, and in the coming year it will add file security features and the option for torrent site owners to promote their content within the client.Article from: TorrentFreak, check out our new blog at FreakBits. View: Original Article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator DKT27 Posted December 25, 2009 Administrator Share Posted December 25, 2009 Even I come in that data. :hehe:Hail uTorrent.:notworthy: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bizarre™ Posted December 25, 2009 Share Posted December 25, 2009 There's no doubt about that.The question now is: will it continue to grow?Greedy bastards file lawsuit after lawsuit against torrent sites.I wonder what the future of torrent will be Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator DKT27 Posted December 25, 2009 Administrator Share Posted December 25, 2009 I don't know about the torrents.But for future of softwares, it's nsane.down and nsane.forums. :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bizarre™ Posted December 25, 2009 Share Posted December 25, 2009 I wonder who / what they will target next once they finish dealing with torrent sites? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator DKT27 Posted December 26, 2009 Administrator Share Posted December 26, 2009 Three guesses. 1)Rapidshare2)RS3)RS Premium Membership:DAsk why? I know it's sort of for hostin personal files only. But people do use it to share illegal content and it also allows users to upload it to do so. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shought Posted December 26, 2009 Share Posted December 26, 2009 Maybe they'll come after us next :ph34r:Pretty cool uTorrent doubled up though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JessicaLeigh Posted December 26, 2009 Share Posted December 26, 2009 Gah! I barely understand the .torrent technology as it is. I've been using BitComet for over a year now in addition to it's Firefox add-on, but I hear so many great things about the uTorrent application and how it's superior to every other .torrent client. I once installed it because I was curious, but when I couldn't get it to access the firewall ports, I gave up and uninstalled it. I wish there was a "uTorrent for Dummies". I'd be the first to purch.. purch.. purcha... erm... download it. ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JessicaLeigh Posted December 26, 2009 Share Posted December 26, 2009 WOW! I just noticed I've been a member here for 3 years today! Woo-Hoo! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atasas Posted December 26, 2009 Share Posted December 26, 2009 Gah! I barely understand the .torrent technology as it is. I've been using BitComet for over a year now in addition to it's Firefox add-on, but I hear so many great things about the uTorrent application and how it's superior to every other .torrent client. I once installed it because I was curious, but when I couldn't get it to access the firewall ports, I gave up and uninstalled it. I wish there was a "uTorrent for Dummies". I'd be the first to purch.. purch.. purcha... erm... download it. ;)I'd recommend bitTornado, though still as basic interface and management it is- you'll have to allow any p2p to go through firewallWOW! I just noticed I've been a member here for 3 years today! Woo-Hoo!Congrats! :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator DKT27 Posted December 26, 2009 Administrator Share Posted December 26, 2009 Congratulations JessicaLeigh. :)I wonder when I'll complete my three years here. :PWell there are many reasons that uTorrent is in the top. The thing is, you have to config it well. And most important, port forwarding of your router. What firewall do you have? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karachidude Posted December 26, 2009 Share Posted December 26, 2009 i have never configured uTorrent for anything,its just download and use ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ambrocious Posted December 26, 2009 Share Posted December 26, 2009 Well as far as I remember I have been here since 2004 or 2005. Nsanedown (formerly nsaneproductions) was the first website I used to learn how to use keygens and such. Also the first site I ran across with really helpful tools of all sorts and with the simple way of getting the cracks and keygens right on the same page. Nsanedown has been a life saver no doubt. If this site ever got shut down...I'd freak out man. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator DKT27 Posted December 26, 2009 Administrator Share Posted December 26, 2009 Ssshhhhh. Keep quite. No one wants anythin to happen to both of the sites. Lets not even consider it. ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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