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They've hit a sticky spot. I'd much rather pay a couple dollars for ad-free software than use something with annoying ads in it. However, like most people I'd
by beloch 14y ago
They've hit a sticky spot.
I'd much rather pay a couple dollars for ad-free software than use something with annoying ads in it. However, like most people I'd probably be illogically unwilling to suddenly pay for the same software I've been using for free.
In the short-term I'll probably just avoid updating, but in the long-term I'll migrate to another torrent client! This is probably the beginning of the end for uTorrent.
- oakwhiz 14y agoµTorrent actually does provide a paid version: http://www.utorrent.com/utorrent-plus/ http://www.utorrent.com/utorrent-plus/
- cf0ed2aa-bdf5 14y agoThe feature list of the paid version does not mention removing advertisements though. Only virus protection, the ability to play more file types, transcoding and remote access.
- z92 14y ago"Only virus protection, the ability to play more file types, transcoding and remote access." Which I would rather pay to NOT have included in my version. I had been using microTorrent for what its name implied, for being micro. IIRC, the first torrent client was written in python. Then ported to Java. The first implementations where so bulky that people hated those. uTorrent probably was the first port in C and everyone loved it for being light weight. Hence the "micro".
- cf0ed2aa-bdf5 14y agoExactly, those features are the complete opposite of what µtorrent once set out to be: a lightweight torrent client.
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- jmillikin 14y ago> I'd much rather pay a couple dollars for ad-free > software than use something with annoying ads in it. It's a torrent client. If you're willing to pay money for a nicer experience, then you're not in the target audience.
- eps 14y agoI'm willing to pay money for a nicer experience with movies, but I can't. Presently, that experience - no ads, no DRM and instant access - is only available for free.
- Rastafarian 14y agoCompletely agree + IMHO it's insane to give money to the entertainment industry, provided it will use part of them to bribe politicians, destroy freedom, establish totalitarian control over Internet and PC platform.