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BitTorrent Refuses to Run VPN, Proxy Ads
Because Somebody Might Associate Them With Piracy

As the entertainment industry and ISPs launch their new six strikes plan, more and more users are fleeing to BitTorrent VPN and proxy services like Torguard or BTguard in order to avoid the prying eyes of their ISPs. Meanwhile, Bram Cohen's BitTorrent, which for years has been trying unsuccessfully to monetize his invention, is looking to distance itself from such services. The company, which started including ads in its client sometime last year, is apparently refusing to run ads from TorGuard because the company "promotes the use of Torrents."

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To have their ads run inside BitTorrent's current client, the company was given a huge list of demands that are, frankly, hysterical. From TorrentFreak:
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To be accepted, TorGuard has to remove the “tor” from its brand name and website URL, because this directly relates to torrents. In addition, all images even remotely relating to BitTorrent or torrents in general have to go. And it doesn’t stop there. "Any text content containing the words 'BitTorrent','utorrent' or 'torrent' would also need to be removed. This would of course include landing pages, knowledge base articles, forum/blog posts, and more,” TorGuard’s Ben Van Pelt tells TorrentFreak.

The long list of demands is a bit much for TorGuard’s owner, who is baffled by the entire ordeal.

"Needless to say, we won't be censoring any of these concerns and will continue to pursue other advertisement initiatives," Van Pelt says.
Amusingly TorGuard says they've had no problems advertising with the likes of CNET, Google and Bing. BitTorrent is busily trying to secure broadcaster content deals, and clearly wants to distance themselves from everything piracy related as they promote BitTorrent Live. Granted that association ship has sailed, and BitTorrent might be better off with a brand change. Having absurd advertising standards likely won't change the mind of broadcast executives who can't differentiate between a technology and the multiple things it's used for.
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DataRiker
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DataRiker

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No news here

The new Utorrent is unusable anyway.

Packeteers
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Forest Hills, NY
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Packeteers

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Re: No news here

I laugh every time i read one of these new utorrent sucks, use version 2.2.1 posts or something else... it takes like a minute to configure the latest utorrent versions as to disable all it's nuisance settings and optimize performance - people are just too lazy to bother. I use 3.2.2 and it's marvelous once you know where to configure it properly. just google around and/or search youtube for any recent tech blogger's guide on how it's done.

DataRiker
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DataRiker

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Re: No news here

100% disagree. Just the look alone is enough of a turn off for me no matter how you customize it.

Mannus
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join:2005-10-25
Fort Wayne, IN

Mannus

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their product, their choice...

I quit using utorrent in favor of qBittorrent and haven't looked back. Plenty of other options out there.
63099088 (banned)
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63099088 (banned)

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find a way

They should find a better way otherwise they will lose people.

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