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Bram Cohen, the creator of the BitTorrent protocol, announced that his company would be finalizing an acquisition of µTorrent today.

“Together, we are pleased to announce that BitTorrent, Inc. and µTorrent AB have decided to join forces,” Cohen wrote in his blog. “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.”

The move will bring quite a few torrent users over to BitTorrent. News site TorrentFreak estimates that buying uTorrent, will bring BitTorrent nearly 50 percent of torrent users.

“What does this mean for the µTorrent community?” wrote Cohen. “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 acquisition price has not yet been disclosed.

Via Techcrunch

Well µTorrent is the best torrent client for me. You can download it here. It’s the best and fastest torrent client that I ever used. The term ‘fast’ is still depend on your internet connection and torrent peers anyway. Just don’t want you to get confused with that.

What I love about µTorrent is their low memory usage and yet with unbelieavable speed. When I used Bitcomet before it hog my memory too much. Sometimes when I at the certain highest speed my computer will froze. Suxxx!

With µTorrent it didn’t happen. So that’s why I’m gonna stick with µTorrent. The memory footprints is kind of important to me. I’ve always open up many applications at the same time eg winamp, adobe photoshop, browser and torrent client. So the efficiency of handling the memory is to ensure my computer will operate smoothly.