good_while_it_lasted

First, a sincere thanks to the utorrent creators and staff for years of free, lightweight and efficient downloading. Count me in as another user who registered just to say goodbye. It's really hard to provide such a popular program for free, and I understand why your team probably thought of this as the lesser of evils. One of the greatest things about utorrent was that when it first started, it seemed to stand against bloated, ad-ridden programs. It was one of the few programs on my computer that I really trusted, because it had the kind of "geek-cred" that can only be earned with NOT having to resort to toolbars and other unwanted add ons. Because I trusted utorrent, I probably did miss the checkboxes when it updated, but I sure don't remember seeing them. For every user that posts that they are leaving, I'm sure there are many, many more who did not take the time to register. Multiply this by the fact that most of these users are probably the "go-to computer person" for their family and circle of friends, as was pointed out earlier, and you have quite an impact. It's not like utorrent will die or anything, and I'm sure the revenue brought in by Conduit was substantial, but you've lost a very powerful thing in the process- the trust of savvy computer users and the community at large.