Last week The Pirate Bay took the drastic decision to remove all (well seeded) .torrent files and go magnet only.

As a result, millions of BitTorrent users are now downloading through magnet files, and some noticed a problem with uTorrent.

Unlike with .torrent files, uTorrent didn’t check for existing files if a previously downloaded file was re-added.

This meant that a file had to be downloaded again, making it impossible to reseed.

TorrentFreak contacted the uTorrent developers and luckily they were quick to release a fix.

The latest uTorrent release can be found here.

Of course we would like to know if there are any other magnet related problems, issues or opinions.