BitTorrent has bought microTorrent, and among other things it’s mentioned that “the incorporation of µTorrent’s lightweight codebase strengthens the adoption of BitTorrent technology in embedded systems, including televisions, mobile phones and other non-PC platforms”. I’m not sure how this works on mobiles, and I don’t think it supplies the same benefits, although I don’t know enough about network technology to make that call for sure.
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