Introducing $4.95 Ad-Free μTorrentAs reported in this forum previously, we’ve been busy experimenting with new ways to improve μTorrent for our users while financially supporting the amazing team that works every day to make μTorrent free for millions of people around the world.For our latest development, we’re happy to introduce Ad-Free μTorrent for $4.95 USD annual subscription. This gives users the option of avoiding any and all ads in the client. It’s exciting to us because it gives users the ability to avoid advertising at 25% of the cost that it used to be – about 5 dollars a year instead of 20 dollars.Many of you have been part of tests related to this and we thank you for your participation and feedback.So how do you get the Ad-Free? Simple: Go here and click on “Upgrade to Ad-Free.”You’ll have the option to pay $4.95 via various methods such as credit card or Paypal. Once you’ve completed that, you will receive a confirmation of payment via email, and then you can then install Ad-Free two ways:Click on “Bundle Installer” link to get an executable file, which will take you through the install path.Click on the “Personal License Key” link and download a file that you can drag into your existing client for an automatic updateAnd that’s it!Well, that’s not *entirely* it. The updates and improvements to μTorrent software are ongoing. You can always track release notes here. In addition, our quest for new models and offerings is perpetual. Watch this space for news on that front.And as always, thank you for your support and feedback. Questions and new ideas are always welcome over in our forums.Reshaping the Internet: What’s a Magnet Link?Currently in Beta, Project Maelstrom aims to help more of the Internet work the way BitTorrent works. In today’s post, team lead Rob Velasquez discusses one of the key components that makes BitTorrent work so efficiently.Project Maelstrom has a big mission: can we create a sustainable, neutral, people-powered, and content centric Internet?As our beta users will know, our peer-to-peer browser supports this mission by making the opening of content published as torrents very simple. One of the ways that it does this is by treating the BitTorrent protocol just like HTTP (HyperText Transfer Protocol), so that visiting a Torrent is just like visiting a webpage.You see, HTTP is great if your web page is simple text and small images. But the volume and size of data is vastly larger on today’s Internet than when HTTP was first implemented in the 1990s. The key advantage that BitTorrent has over HTTP is that it handles the heavy lifting – moving large sets of data – without reliance on a central server. This provides faster data transfers, better network management, and no single choke points.Magnet links bypass the reliance on HTTP even further, and we encourage publishers to use them. We’ll get into how, but first let’s talk a little more about Torrents.What’s a “Torrent” anyway?A Torrent is a file format for data transfer (similar to a zipfile). Inside a “.torrent” file is a set of information that helps your BitTorrent client find and download data. This information is a group of files that includes names, sizes, and folder structure. Along with information about files, a “.torrent” file also contains a list of trackers.A tracker can be thought of as a computer – or group of computers – that helps identify the location of specific data. When a request for content goes out, say the latest issue of The FADER 101 Bundle, a tracker helps connect the person seeking it to the location(s) where it can be found.Magnet linksMagnet links are simple text links that include all of the necessary information, doing away with the need to download a “.torrent” file. This brings us closer to a true peer-to-peer experience.The final step would be eliminating the need for trackers. At that point, your BitTorrent client would find the data you are requesting directly from other people, rather than relying on a tracker. You can read more about how this works by checking out our post Currently in Beta, Project Maelstrom aims to help more of the Internet work the way BitTorrent works. In today’s post, team lead Rob Velasquez discusses one of the key components that makes BitTorrent work so efficiently.Project Maelstrom has a big mission: can we create a sustainable, neutral, people-powered, and content centric Internet?As our beta users will know, our peer-to-peer browser supports this mission by making the opening of content published as torrents very simple. One of the ways that it does this is by treating the BitTorrent protocol just like HTTP (HyperText Transfer Protocol), so that visiting a Torrent is just like visiting a webpage.You see, HTTP is great if your web page is simple text and small images. But the volume and size of data is vastly larger on today’s Internet than when HTTP was first implemented in the 1990s. The key advantage that BitTorrent has over HTTP is that it handles the heavy lifting – moving large sets of data – without reliance on a central server. This provides faster data transfers, better network management, and no single choke points.Magnet links bypass the reliance on HTTP even further, and we encourage publishers to use them. We’ll get into how, but first let’s talk a little more about Torrents.What’s a “Torrent” anyway?A Torrent is a file format for data transfer (similar to a zipfile). Inside a “.torrent” file is a set of information that helps your BitTorrent client find and download data. This information is a group of files that includes names, sizes, and folder structure. Along with information about files, a “.torrent” file also contains a list of trackers.A tracker can be thought of as a computer – or group of computers – that helps identify the location of specific data. When a request for content goes out, say the latest issue of The FADER 101 Bundle, a tracker helps connect the person seeking it to the location(s) where it can be found.Magnet linksMagnet links are simple text links that include all of the necessary information, doing away with the need to download a “.torrent” file. This brings us closer to a true peer-to-peer experience.The final step would be eliminating the need for trackers. At that point, your BitTorrent client would find the data you are requesting directly from other people, rather than relying on a tracker. You can read more about how this works by checking out our post What it means for the InternetWe believe that more of the web should work like the BitTorrent protocol and trackerless magnet links are a big part of that vision.With the Project Maelstrom beta, you can now open torrents in a web browser without the need to download “.torrent” files or manage hard drive space. So while you can download The FADER 101 Bundle as a torrent as mentioned above, you can also go directly to magnet:?xt=urn:btih:23ABBAA2A7D44A4EAFCBC907DB475376D1422629 in Project Maelstrom to access the Bundle.You can try how this works now by joining our beta group. Simply download the latest beta and get access any of the top music and video content from our Bundle offerings from 2015.Please join us in this project, become a fractional owner of this new Internet and help us shape the future of our network.http://blog.utorrent.com/2016/01/27/reshaping-the-internet-whats-a-magnet-link/x x
Reshaping the Internet: What’s a Magnet Link?
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June 03, 2018
Rating: 5
As reported in this forum previously, we’ve been busy experimenting with new ways to improve μTorrent for our users while financially supporting the amazing team that works every day to make μTorrent free for millions of people around the world.
For our latest development, we’re happy to introduce Ad-Free μTorrent for $4.95 USD annual subscription. This gives users the option of avoiding any and all ads in the client. It’s exciting to us because it gives users the ability to avoid advertising at 25% of the cost that it used to be – about 5 dollars a year instead of 20 dollars.Many of you have been part of tests related to this and we thank you for your participation and feedback.So how do you get the Ad-Free? Simple: Go here and click on “Upgrade to Ad-Free.”You’ll have the option to pay $4.95 via various methods such as credit card or Paypal. Once you’ve completed that, you will receive a confirmation of payment via email, and then you can then install Ad-Free two ways:Click on “Bundle Installer” link to get an executable file, which will take you through the install path.Click on the “Personal License Key” link and download a file that you can drag into your existing client for an automatic update
And that’s it!Well, that’s not *entirely* it. The updates and improvements to μTorrent software are ongoing. You can always track release notes here. In addition, our quest for new models and offerings is perpetual. Watch this space for news on that front.And as always, thank you for your support and feedback. Questions and new ideas are always welcome over in our forums.Reshaping the Internet: What’s a Magnet Link?
Currently in Beta, Project Maelstrom aims to help more of the Internet work the way BitTorrent works. In today’s post, team lead Rob Velasquez discusses one of the key components that makes BitTorrent work so efficiently.Project Maelstrom has a big mission: can we create a sustainable, neutral, people-powered, and content centric Internet?As our beta users will know, our peer-to-peer browser supports this mission by making the opening of content published as torrents very simple. One of the ways that it does this is by treating the BitTorrent protocol just like HTTP (HyperText Transfer Protocol), so that visiting a Torrent is just like visiting a webpage.You see, HTTP is great if your web page is simple text and small images. But the volume and size of data is vastly larger on today’s Internet than when HTTP was first implemented in the 1990s. The key advantage that BitTorrent has over HTTP is that it handles the heavy lifting – moving large sets of data – without reliance on a central server. This provides faster data transfers, better network management, and no single choke points.Magnet links bypass the reliance on HTTP even further, and we encourage publishers to use them. We’ll get into how, but first let’s talk a little more about Torrents.What’s a “Torrent” anyway?A Torrent is a file format for data transfer (similar to a zipfile). Inside a “.torrent” file is a set of information that helps your BitTorrent client find and download data. This information is a group of files that includes names, sizes, and folder structure. Along with information about files, a “.torrent” file also contains a list of trackers.A tracker can be thought of as a computer – or group of computers – that helps identify the location of specific data. When a request for content goes out, say the latest issue of The FADER 101 Bundle, a tracker helps connect the person seeking it to the location(s) where it can be found.
Magnet linksMagnet links are simple text links that include all of the necessary information, doing away with the need to download a “.torrent” file. This brings us closer to a true peer-to-peer experience.The final step would be eliminating the need for trackers. At that point, your BitTorrent client would find the data you are requesting directly from other people, rather than relying on a tracker. You can read more about how this works by checking out our post Currently in Beta, Project Maelstrom aims to help more of the Internet work the way BitTorrent works. In today’s post, team lead Rob Velasquez discusses one of the key components that makes BitTorrent work so efficiently.Project Maelstrom has a big mission: can we create a sustainable, neutral, people-powered, and content centric Internet?As our beta users will know, our peer-to-peer browser supports this mission by making the opening of content published as torrents very simple. One of the ways that it does this is by treating the BitTorrent protocol just like HTTP (HyperText Transfer Protocol), so that visiting a Torrent is just like visiting a webpage.You see, HTTP is great if your web page is simple text and small images. But the volume and size of data is vastly larger on today’s Internet than when HTTP was first implemented in the 1990s. The key advantage that BitTorrent has over HTTP is that it handles the heavy lifting – moving large sets of data – without reliance on a central server. This provides faster data transfers, better network management, and no single choke points.Magnet links bypass the reliance on HTTP even further, and we encourage publishers to use them. We’ll get into how, but first let’s talk a little more about Torrents.What’s a “Torrent” anyway?A Torrent is a file format for data transfer (similar to a zipfile). Inside a “.torrent” file is a set of information that helps your BitTorrent client find and download data. This information is a group of files that includes names, sizes, and folder structure. Along with information about files, a “.torrent” file also contains a list of trackers.A tracker can be thought of as a computer – or group of computers – that helps identify the location of specific data. When a request for content goes out, say the latest issue of The FADER 101 Bundle, a tracker helps connect the person seeking it to the location(s) where it can be found.
Magnet linksMagnet links are simple text links that include all of the necessary information, doing away with the need to download a “.torrent” file. This brings us closer to a true peer-to-peer experience.The final step would be eliminating the need for trackers. At that point, your BitTorrent client would find the data you are requesting directly from other people, rather than relying on a tracker. You can read more about how this works by checking out our post What it means for the InternetWe believe that more of the web should work like the BitTorrent protocol and trackerless magnet links are a big part of that vision.With the Project Maelstrom beta, you can now open torrents in a web browser without the need to download “.torrent” files or manage hard drive space. So while you can download The FADER 101 Bundle as a torrent as mentioned above, you can also go directly to magnet:?xt=urn:btih:23ABBAA2A7D44A4EAFCBC907DB475376D1422629 in Project Maelstrom to access the Bundle.You can try how this works now by joining our beta group. Simply download the latest beta and get access any of the top music and video content from our Bundle offerings from 2015.Please join us in this project, become a fractional owner of this new Internet and help us shape the future of our network.
http://blog.utorrent.com/2016/01/27/reshaping-the-internet-whats-a-magnet-link/x
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