uTorrent is my personal choice in the world that is torrent clients. It’s a dream to use it, sleek, fast and has an epic web-ui that lets me manage my torrents remotely. Now they’re taking it one step further and it’s “apparently” going to clog the tubes that connect everyone on the internet together.

A lot of buzz around the net today has been generated by Richard Bennett, with his article “BitTorrent declares war on VoIP, gamers”. There’s just one problem with it – it’s utter rubbish.

We’ve mentioned Richard Bennett before, he was at the FCC hearing back in February, dealing with the Comcast-Sandvine issue. At the time, as we noted, he made the statement “If we can’t control network management, we’ll have to shut down the Internet”. With uTorrent’s new transfer protocol (uTP) that’s currently being tested in an early Alpha release of the BitTorrent client, Bennett sees another potential threat.

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