That Stupid Club

Announced a few days ago. I am not opti­mistic about the future direc­tion of uTor­rent, given that Bit­tor­rent, Inc has a deal with Warner Broth­ers (the enemy!). While I will con­tinue to use the cur­rent ver­sion of uTor­rent, I am already look­ing out for alternatives.

Bit­Comet is def­i­nitely out, as it is still banned on a num­ber of track­ers due to it being con­sid­ered harm­ful to the net­work, I am also not com­fort­able with the inter­face. Bit­Lord, no, just no. Azureus is just too heavy for my poor lit­tle machine. ABC, Bit­Tor­nado and the bevy of clients imple­mented in Python, lack­ing on some cru­cial fea­tures. Halite seems promis­ing, but the libtor­rent library it is based on lacks some fea­tures I need.

Since libtor­rent has gained a higher pro­file thanks to the uTor­rent sit­u­a­tion, and I am hop­ing this will spur some­one to get some heavy devel­op­ment work done to fill the gaps in its fea­ture list, such as pro­to­col encryption.