BitTorrent to Annex uTorrent

People who download files over BitTorrent tend to use Azureus or uTorrent as their client software, rather than BitTorrent's own version of the software. Yesterday, BitTorrent, which has been moving closer to its goal of becoming a "legitimate" platform for the distribution of copyrighted content, announced it would soon acquire uTorrent. According to founder Bram Cohen, the company plans to repurpose the uTorrent code to run on "TVs, cellphones, and other non-PC platforms."

TechCrunch points out that this will also bring approximately 50% of the entire .torrent downloading community to BitTorrent, but Cohen wrote that not much would change for uTorrent users – initially at least:

"'What does this mean for the µTorrent community?' wrote Cohen. 'Notmuch, at least not at first. The intention is to maintain the websiteas it is, and keep the forums and community active. Moving forwardbehind the scenes, we will continue to develop µTorrent and will beusing the codebase in other applications, especially ones where a fast,
lightweight implementation is more suitable, such as embedded systemson TVs, cell phones, and other non-PC platforms.'"