I'd much rather pay a couple dollars for ad-free software than use something with annoying ads in it. However, like most people I'd probably be illogically unwilling to suddenly pay for the same software I've been using for free.
In the short-term I'll probably just avoid updating, but in the long-term I'll migrate to another torrent client! This is probably the beginning of the end for uTorrent.
> I'd much rather pay a couple dollars for ad-free
> software than use something with annoying ads in it.
Which I would rather pay to NOT have included in my version. I had been using microTorrent for what its name implied, for being micro.
IIRC, the first torrent client was written in python. Then ported to Java. The first implementations where so bulky that people hated those. uTorrent probably was the first port in C and everyone loved it for being light weight. Hence the "micro".