UTORRENT 1.8.7 STOP SEEDING UTORRENT
Simply looking at who bought the program and who is now updating the code should be enough to convince anybody that the Utorrent we knew is gone. The backlash against Utorrent is not FUD. Too bad it wasn't made Open Source so someone could continue on the work in the right way. Bearshare, Utorrent, what's next? They are letting their money do the fighting for them and have ruined what was a fantastic product. This won’t stop torrent seeding but reduces the upload speed to almost nothing. uTorrent’s preferences allow you to set the maximum upload speed to 1kbps. Be sure to keep the data of the torrent and only remove the torrent itself. and since you say you dont torrent much, a VPN would be the best option. Get a VPN, some are cheaper than seedboxes. Downloading or uploading both connect you to the swarm and will get you a notice/letter if your IP gets logged. Although the length of time that you should leave the file seeding is not defined, it is recommended that you share until the amount of data you upload reaches at least the same as the amount. Once a torrent has finished downloading then remove the torrent from the uTorrent queue. Turning off seeding will not change a thing. After a torrent job finishes downloading, you are highly encouraged to leave the torrent job seeding.
If the RIAA and MPAA can't kill 'em, they buy 'em and reprogram them. Seeding means sharing a file (s) with other peers. Whatever happens from this point forward is no longer something he's involved in, I believe. I don't see why anybody would want to, especially with the original author no longer coding the program. I for one do not wish to support ANY effort by someone so chummy with the RIAA and MPAA, period. If you wish to use Utorrent, I'd simply say stay with the 1.6 Standard final version and do not use anything after that release. The fact that Utorrent is now owned and being updated by people that have signed agreements with the RIAA and MPAA and NOT the original programmer, should give anybody pause.
That version should be safe I believe and is still an excellent client. Utorrent 1.6 Standard, the last final build, was done before the company was purchased and the new code written.