Opera 8.02 with Build-in BitTorrent Client
Filed in: Downloads — July 8th, 2005
Opera has released a version of its web browser with the BitTorrent client built in. Users clicking on a Torrent file will see the file load in Opera’s traditional Transfer window, so for most file transfers, there’s no need to install a third-party BitTorrent client. To Opera, it’s simply another MIME type, like Gopher and Usenet before it.
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Does Opera encourage illegal BT downloads?
“We’re not encouraging people to share copyright material. The P2P networks have encouraged actively copyright rights reserved material, but that’s obviously not the case with us.”, Christen Krogh, Opera’s VP of Engineering.
But, how many percentages of BT downloads are legal files?
By the way, I don’t see any Bittorrent client extension for Firefox yet. Maybe we will have one soon after the release of Opera with Bittorrent. 
