>they'd make $700 while generating tens of millions in extra electricity costs. uTorrent probably tens of millions of users, not one million. These users also

>they'd make $700 while generating tens of millions in extra electricity costs. uTorrent probably tens of millions of users, not one million. These users also might have decent GPUs (I know I do in my gaming machine which is my only desktop). I'm not disagreeing that this is a questionable business practice, but I think they're going to make a hell of a lot more than $700. Also this normalizes this behavior so if they switch to Litecoin or whatever coin gets hot next, they have all the infrastructure in place to generate new coins. One of the things thats invisible to computer users is how much power they use. uTorrent is taking advantage of this ignorance. The same way the stupid "search for aliens at home" crap was installed on every university and corporate PC by irresponsible helpdesk staff. There's a larger issue here about power usage. At the very least your computer should warn you if something is eating up all the CPU and rasing your electric bill and contributing to pollution. All the more reason to promote Deluge for torrenting duties. uTorrent is user hostile garbage.