Utorrent is a great client but I'm considering switching over to Azureus simply because of Utorrents questionable partnership with a subsidiary of Retspan - a company well known for their shady anti-piracy tactics. The fact that the client is completely free and remains closed-source doesn't help to easy my suspicions either.
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Strigeus (the developer of U Torrent) 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.”
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