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uTorrent Is the Most Popular BitTorrent Client

Written by IT News on 10:27 AM

By: Bogdan Popa, Security and Search Engines Editor

In peer-to-peer file-sharing, industry is very important these days, as providers, copyright owners and users constantly talking about it. While consumers simply love P2P file sharing, copyright holders strongly criticized it because it is rumored that the highest number of piracy extends to the content of this method. Some ISPs have encountered difficulties because of the users' appetite for exaggerated P2P downloads, and even if some of them are believed to outlaw P2P tools, they actually decide that attract consumers, and, obviously, the money.

Getting back to the users, it is clear that P2P means something to them. But it will be interesting to know, the most popular P2P applications on the Internet and how many are you? Well, the people at the Digital Media Desktop made a report to analyze the evolution of the most important P2P clients, regardless of which network they are working.

The study was done on computers 1661688 approximately one year, and found that LimeWire is the most popular P2P client sites, which are installed on at least 34.10 percent of computers in September 2006 and 36.40 per cent in September 2007.

However, the most interesting duel is BitTorrent competition, which won uTorrent computers with 3.00 per cent in September 2006 and 11.30 per cent in September 2007. As you can see, uTorrent had impressive growth in popularity, although BitTorrent already has been more popular than he. BiTorrent was set at 5.20 percent of the system in September 2006 (more than uTorrent), and only 4.60 per cent in September 2007.

KaZaa, one of the applications that have been very popular in the past, has gradually decreased its success rate from 4.50 percent of the system in September 2006 to a mere 1.50 per cent in September 2007.