Monday, March 9, 2015

Emotion when popular Bittorrent client digs Litecoin the sly – IDG.se

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Utorrent developed and is owned by BitTorrent, the company behind the popular fildelnigsprotokollet of the same name, but has previously been owned by the likes of Spotify. Now accused the program to not only download videos and other files that users want. With Utorrent also code for extracting Litecoin. Litecoin is just like its more famous cousin Bitcoin digital currency that requires a mathematical problem is solved for the new blocks of currency can be developed.

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Grävarprogrammet developed and is distributed according to The Register of the company Epic Scale and in addition to dig digital money is also used to perform other distributed computing. The program runs in the background while uTorrent is used to download or upload files.

But the angry users can have themselves to blame. For The Record is saying now Bittorrent that in their user agreements asking if it’s ok to Epic Scale installed and that it is possible to choose not to install the program. The problem, according to them is that many users forget to read the fine print when installing Utorrent.

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Epic Scale follows according to the company not always with Utorrent but is one of several “bonus program “that the company sends with the popular BitTorrent client.
 The latest Epic Scale installed and do not want to continue to share their computing power to the company can find instructions to remove the software on the company site.

Epic Scale says that the plan from the beginning was to bestow the greater part of the earned money to charity.

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