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None other than… uTorrent.

Some say a picture is worth a thousand words.

This one is worth a thousand and five.

And the best ISP in Australia (and possibly, the world) goes to Internode. :)

Previously, my downloads can only reach 15k/s MAX on my third world country 512kbps “broadband” (TMNet StreamyX). Now, it can reach three times that speed comfortably. Keep up the good work uTorrent.

Interested?

Forum thread - http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?id=31998

Download link - http://download.utorrent.com/beta/utorrent-1.8-alpha-8205.upx.exe

Installer weighs in at only 257KB.

Pic: WOW QTRAX IS AMAZING IT LETS YOU PLAY SONGS AND SURF THE WEB I DIDN’T KNOW THAT!!!

So, the beta is up for download. Only for Windows at the moment (Mac version will be released on March). However, you can’t download a single shit using the app. All you get is this pop-up:

You can’t even download any songs off their Artist of the month - Foo Fighters.

Also, the app which is based on Songbird is still really buggy (that’s what you get in beta I suppose). I tried searching for Will.I.Am and the search box CONCATENATES it to one word “WILLIAM” and all the search results are only related to William. WTF!? Did the app think I was trying to do scripting or programming in the search box?

Just for fun, I tried typing 1+3+5 to see if the search box can do math. Turns out it doesn’t, it eats up the plus signs and concatenates everything into 135. Same thing goes for whatever non-alphanumeric character you throw in ( ! , . - + & * ). I guess the search box is just plain hungry.

While surfing Digg I stumble upon something really interesting. The digg entry is titled “From today, feel free to download all the music in the world“. What!? You gotta be f**king kidding me, mate. It’s just too good to be true. I’m not surprised a large number of digg users reports the story as inaccurate.

After reading taking a quick glance at the article. I’ve found out that the company offering the free downloads is Qtrax.

“With CD sales in free fall and legal downloads yet to fill the gap, the music industry has reluctantly embraced the file-sharing technology that threatened to destroy it. Qtrax, a digital service announced today, promises a catalogue of more than 25 million songs that users can download to keep, free and with no limit on the number of tracks.”

Source: Times Online

Looking at their website, the first thing that caught my attention is this:

Where is the “No E-mail from RIAA” entry? When I was about to look for the download link, I was cock-blocked by this:

I guess we’ll find out at MIDNIGHT EST eh? whenever that actually is.

The application that they are using is [not so popular] Mozilla Songbird (but I guess now it’s gonna get a bigger slice of the pie eh?)

Wow, just wow. Featured artist is FOO FIGHTERS? And I can even see Alicia Keys down there.

So, what are your thoughts on this before we hit MIDNIGHT EST!? Scam or not. Personally, I think even if it turns out to be real, there will be 8072387282 catches. Music non-transferable/non-playable by other players, not iPod compatible (unless they make the album art for each song an ad LOL)- you name them.

P/S: No RIAA agents were harmed during the writing of this post.