I've actually never used uTorrent myself, but I found myself quite appalled by the title and then slowly warming up to the ideas as I read the article. As I un

I've actually never used uTorrent myself, but I found myself quite appalled by the title and then slowly warming up to the ideas as I read the article. As I understand, the company behind uTorrent currently makes their money from people who install a browser toolbar bundled with the uTorrent installer. This is one of the sleaziest sources of revenue. Putting some ads in the app itself is at least honest. Even better, rather than having your average "Clean your computer now!" ads, they apparently plan to advertise using "sponsored torrents", from within a BitTorrent client. That's actually pretty clever! If they push this a bit more, they can use uTorrent as a trojan horse for a legitimate BitTorrent platform the way iTunes went from being an app to put music on your iPod to a full-blown music store. I'll defer my judgement until I see how this turns out, but it can hardly be worse than a browser toolbar.