And if Obama says NSA doesn't spy on Americans, would you also believe that? You seem to misunderstand something. All rights currently belong to BitTorrent Inc. because it is not under open source license. As a person who uses this for their private data, you should be looking at every possiblity of being "the product"; if you are not paying for it, you are the product. Who knows what kind of backdoors this thing could have. I was actually surprised that they were collecting some info like the sizes of data being synced. You just said how competition works. That's right. People would just switch over to the better alternative. That is exactly why this is not open source, they want no alternative. They don't want people to fork it and code a better one. If it's just updates you're concern, one can just add notification if they were running an old version, or even add auto-update capabilities.