In a move that has slashdot nerd foaming at the mouth, BitTorrent, Inc has bought uTorrent:

Together, we are pleased to announce that BitTorrent, Inc. and µTorrent AB have decided to join forces. BitTorrent has acquired µTorrent as it recognized the merits of µTorrent's exceptionally well-written codebase and robust user community. Bringing together µTorrent's efficient implementation and compelling UI with BitTorrent's expertise in networking protocols will significantly benefit the community with what we envision will be the best BitTorrent client.

What does this mean for the µTorrent community? Not much, at least not at first. The intention is to maintain the website as it is, and keep the forums and community active. Moving forward behind the scenes, we will continue to develop µTorrent and will be using the codebase in other applications, especially ones where a fast, lightweight implementation is more suitable, such as embedded systems on TVs, cell phones, and other non-PC platforms.

The existent µTorrent and BitTorrent communities are immensely valuable to us, which is why we are announcing this here first to make sure you're all the first to know about the news. The plan is to continue to foster the health and growth of the community that has been critical to the success of µTorrent. Thank you in advance for your support.

Bit of a bummer; I was hoping for uTorrent to be open sourced (not that it was ever mentioned afaik) and now it seems pretty unlikely that'll ever happen.

ive been using utorrent the longest

Yeah a big week for bit torrent stuff.
With µTorrent getting bought out, and Azureas 3.0 having all the 'HD' video download integration shiz through Zudeo

Hopefully µTorrent doesnt become bloated with stuff most people don't need, but it looks like the intention is to keep it simple.

i dont like utorrent. whenever i run it, i cant open any webpages

utorrent is the shiz.

i dont like utorrent. whenever i run it, i cant open any webpages

wtf ?

utorrent is THA SHIZ, so simple.

If they can get a native linux utorrent client running as a result of this merge then im all for it. I just hope they dont ghey up the windows version.

i dont like utorrent. whenever i run it, i cant open any webpages

Exact same thing happened to me using Azureus. utorrent FTW!

ive been using utorrent the longest

O'rly

I've been using it before I was even born...so ner!

I was using µTorrent before it was cool.

uTorrent is s*** anyway

and what do you use skitza? if you tell me azerus I will laugh in your face

I've used A LOT of torrent clients and IMO utorrent is the bomb...

i dont like utorrent. whenever i run it, i cant open any webpage

umm, I'm going out on a limb here...
The reason you can't open a web page is more than likely that you have it running unlimited.

If you have it running unlimited, it will dominate your bandwidth
Try throttling it, it's remarkably efficient at adhering to the rules you set it

Actually, if your using a throttled uTorrent an still getting latency isues etc

Look at your cheap ass hardware that your using to route traffic mkay

hahah
skitza = the torrent noob

µTorrent is so awesome I went to the effort to acquire the proper µ for this post.

i second the noob comment

I use ABC 3.1 ftw.