Justin Sun, the Founder and CEO of Tron Foundation, announced the launch of the new web portal of uTorrent, a client of BitTorrent, which was recently acquired by Tron. During the TVM launch, Justin stated that all the clients of BitTorrent, including uTorrent, will be Tron clients.
Justin Sun said:
“Say Hi to µTorrent Web, a torrent client for the #streaming age! Thanks @utorrent and @BitTorrent teams for creating this amazing product. Download the Windows version and let us what do you think! App supported by Mac in the works”
According to the announcement made by the Foundation, BitTorrent and uTorrent teams have been working together for the launch of this new product, uTorrent Web for several months. The Foundation stated that they are ‘excited’ to launch the web-based product which is simple and allows quick download.
In addition, Cory Keller, the Product Designer of uTorrent web team briefed the community on the use case of the new product. Cory believes that the next generation of torrenting is with uTorrent.
He said:
“So, its the streaming age and here at BitTorrent, we understand that nobody wants to wait for a progress bar to hit a 100% before they can hit play and watch or listen to something. I’m going over a few details in the product, uTorrent wen to show you just how you can do that.”
Justin Sun, the Founder and CEO of Tron Foundation, announced the launch of the new web portal of uTorrent, a client of BitTorrent, which was recently acquired by Tron. During the TVM launch, Justin stated that all the clients of BitTorrent, including uTorrent, will be Tron clients.
Justin Sun said:
“Say Hi to µTorrent Web, a torrent client for the #streaming age! Thanks @utorrent and @BitTorrent teams for creating this amazing product. Download the Windows version and let us what do you think! App supported by Mac in the works”
According to the announcement made by the Foundation, BitTorrent and uTorrent teams have been working together for the launch of this new product, uTorrent Web for several months. The Foundation stated that they are ‘excited’ to launch the web-based product which is simple and allows quick download.
In addition, Cory Keller, the Product Designer of uTorrent web team briefed the community on the use case of the new product. Cory believes that the next generation of torrenting is with uTorrent.
He said:
“So, its the streaming age and here at BitTorrent, we understand that nobody wants to wait for a progress bar to hit a 100% before they can hit play and watch or listen to something. I’m going over a few details in the product, uTorrent wen to show you just how you can do that.”
The uTorrent web is a browser-based Torrent client which is ready to launch. The product will be available on Windows and the team is working towards launching it on Mac. uTorrent web is available on Chrome, Firefox, Opera, Internet Explorer Edge and in many languages.
With this product, users can search and play from the Torrent files or magnet link while they download. This can be done without the user requiring to leave their browser in order to look for files or other applications.
Along with the feature of play the video or listening to music while downloading, the product will save all the files locally for the user to use. Users can also download any file type whether it is a media or not, choose to save it in the folder of their preference.
Moreover, the product tackles with the threat of malware, which is the rising concern of the users. For this, uTorrent has partnered with Adaware, an Internet Security, and Privacy company. They have a browser extension for Chrome and Opera called Browers80.
The extension will be active when a user searches for a torrent and scans the search result for malware. This prevents a harmful site from loading on the user’s browser.
ShinjukuWard, a Redditor said:
“BitTorrent is going to be absolute key in a type of decentralized streaming service. Great for content creators and studios.”
Greenpc, another Redditor said:
“Couldn’t this already be done? It’s been a minute since I used utorrent but I thought watching while downloading was an option years ago.”