{"id":251703,"date":"2018-03-09T11:41:34","date_gmt":"2018-03-09T09:41:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=251703"},"modified":"2018-03-09T11:42:22","modified_gmt":"2018-03-09T09:42:22","slug":"why-spotify-bought-utorrent-in-2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/251703-why-spotify-bought-utorrent-in-2006.html","title":{"rendered":"Why Spotify bought uTorrent in 2006"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Spotify bought the BitTorrent client uTorrent in 2006 to bring in star programmer\u00a0Ludvig Strigeus,\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breakit.se\/artikel\/11963\/den-osannolika-miljardaren-ludvig-strigeus-fildelarkodaren-som-byggde-spotify\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Breakit.se reported<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Spotify then sold uTorrent to the developers of BitTorrent, BitTorrent Inc.<\/p>\n<p>When Spotify initially bought uTorrent, the assumption was that it wanted to build on its technology for its own peer-to-peer distribution system, reported Breakit.se.<\/p>\n<p>However, former Spotify CTO\u00a0Andreas Ehn said that was not the case &#8211; they wanted\u00a0Strigeus.<\/p>\n<p>While his current shareholding is unknown, a <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/translate.googleusercontent.com\/translate_c?act=url&amp;depth=1&amp;hl=en&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;prev=_t&amp;rurl=translate.google.com&amp;sl=auto&amp;sp=nmt4&amp;tl=en&amp;u=https:\/\/computersweden.idg.se\/2.2683\/1.239983\/sa-fick-spotify-skivbolagen-med-sig&amp;xid=17259,15700022,15700105,15700124,15700149,15700168,15700173,15700201&amp;usg=ALkJrhgtAvAbAxrVRfuG8THMLMJjA_M8zg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2009 ComputerSweden article<\/a><\/strong> reported that Strigeus held a 2.6% share of Spotify.<\/p>\n<p>This has led to speculation that Spotify has made the developer a Swedish billionaire.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/251317-spotify-launching-in-south-africa-soon-sources.html\">Spotify launching in South Africa soon \u2014 Sources<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spotify bought the BitTorrent client in 2006 to bring in star programmer\u00a0Ludvig Strigeus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":228599,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[49347,49349,7927,15197],"class_list":["post-251703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-ludvig-strigeus","tag-scummvm","tag-spotify","tag-utorrent"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251703"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251703"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":251723,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251703\/revisions\/251723"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}