uTorrent Sign Six Month RetSpan Agreement
March 4, 2006
Michael Ingram
Check out these links, I am an evil bastard, ROFLMAO
http://www.slyck.com/news.php?story=1117http://p2pnet.net/story/1305According to a statement by PeerFactor, the lead developer of µTorrent,
Ludvig Strigeus, has agreed to help develop "new content distribution applications on the Web".
The developer has signed a contract with PeerFactor for an initial six month evaluation period.
Since the public release of uTorrent in September, the client has risen to the number one spot
on Slyck’s list of BitTorrent clients for Windows, as voted by users. This is mostly due to the
tiny memory usage, which is around 6MB, compared to second most popular, Azureus, which is
typically over 70MB. Yet uTorrent remains feature-rich.
By developing the PeerFactor software, which uses the BitTorrent protocol, Strigeus will be
entitled to a share of any advertising revenue generated by the final product.
This move into the authorised distribution market is a step away from anti-P2P technology for
PeerFactor, which is a subsidiary of French anti-piracy group RetSpan.
PeerFactor shot to notoriety in April 2004 by giving financial rewards to file sharers for
spreading fake files and directing downloaders to authorised download sites.
News that µTorrent are selling their software will fuel speculation as to why uTorrent
has remained close source, which is extremely uncommon for BitTorrent clients.
This is not of concern to Strigeus, who told Slyck News, "This doesn't affect µTorrent,
it's just a side project. If people like to be paranoid, I won't stop them."
Strigeus denies that he is helping PeerFactor fight the P2P community by providing the coding.
"The agreement says that the software will be used to distribute legal content over the internet.
In my understanding, everything in our agreement says that it will be used for downloading
legal content," Strigeus told Slyck News.
Although Strigeus rejects that he knew PeerFactor’s history of attacking and disrupting
P2P networks, he defends working with the company now he does know.
"Just because I sell cleaning services to Microsoft doesn't mean I like Windows."
This is to inform you that that the developer of utorrent has done this, you can make up your mind for yourselves
if you wanna use there application after this :)
there ip is 207.142.136.45 if you wish to exclude it.
Update: Please note there is a correction to this article. It was originally reported that PeerFactor is a
subsidiary of RetSpan. The two companies parted ways six months ago.
PeerFactor deny ever being involved in anti-P2P operations, despite the reports to the contrary.
"We do not distribute any fake file over P2P, but only useful content," Frenchman Richard Rodrigues,
head of PeerFactor told Slyck. "We have never distributed fakes file (unreadable) because no user
would [...] want to distribute [them]."
but I have to point this out:
http://web.archive.org/web/20040509071430/http://www.peerfactor.biz/I would like to point out, ludvig did come to our irc channel and ask about the block, He was very civil,
but brought this jerk Benjones along to start a flame war against us. We have to block his website as I know many who
will never use utorrent ever again after this news, if peerfactor says they are not ant-p2p or not, they
are def not pro-p2p in any way. There goal is to turn peeps to what they call legal p2p the same tactic most ant-p2p
are turning to. They think this will break the back of what they call ilegal p2p. they still are anti-p2p no matter how
ludvig likes to spin it, one company, two companies, or whatever, anti-p2p is anti-p2p no matter how they like to classify
themselves.
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