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Here's a spigot representative stating that VUZE does install Sigot malware by default, apologizing for the inconvenience, then offering no way to remove it. He says the opt-out is hidden from site under the "custom" install tickbox of the Vuze install.

http://forum.vuze.com/Thread-m...

Spigot malware contains features that actively resist de-installation. It hits every browser on your computer.

I imagine they are talking about magnet links.

Basically, set up two VMs, the first only gets networking through the second, and the second is configured to run everything through TOR and TOR alone.

Now this has been made easy and "done for us" so to speak (but always, ymmv, everything has bugs, security is a mindset, etc etc etc):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T...

From the whonix homepage: "Whonix is an operating system focused on anonymity, privacy and security. It's based on the Tor anonymity network[1], Debian GNU/Linux[2] and security by isolation. DNS leaks are impossible, and not even malware with root privileges can find out the user's real IP. "
https://www.whonix.org/

For latest developments, here is where it's at:
https://www.whonix.org/blog/ma...
https://www.whonix.org/wiki/Qu...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q...

PS, some current "wisdom" (but check out the cutting edge above, which also more generic solutions):
https://blog.torproject.org/bl...
https://torrentfreak.com/tribl...
http://torguard.net/howtodownl...
http://www.tribler.org/
http://tor.stackexchange.com/q...
https://wiki.vuze.com/w/Tor_Ho...
http://www.howtogeek.com/76801...

Seriously, we live in abundance - enjoy :)

Well, that depends on what kind of "consumer" they are. If they're a user who only has the Java plugin installed, then yeah, you're right.

But for people who are running non-browser-based desktop apps like Vuze, PHBs who oversee server-side Java projects, and the poor bastards who have to work under them, the advice that "Java is unsafe!!" is misleading and sensationalist.

I'd wager that most Java applications are not applets, and so they are safe from this exploit and similar ones. So the distinction between the Java platform in general and the browser plugin is a valid one.

Access torrents via a client that supports proxying like Vuze. Then simply invest in a proxy service like BTGuard and have your IP cloaked through a non-US location (How else ya gonna get Game of Thrones?).

You can also go through good ole Usenet which has faster speeds than peer to peer like EasyNews. Happy torrenting!

Then buy web hosting, upload your file, and start a torrent with an HTTP seed.

You then have a problem with caps, not speed. It's a real issue, but a different one.

The cap implies a sustained speed, as opposed to the burst speed that carriers advertise. For example, a 5 GB/mo cap is just over the sustained speed of a mid-1990s dial-up modem (5000000 KB/month * 8 bits/byte / 30 days/month / 86400 s/day = 15.4 kbps). The 7.5 GB/mo cap of WildBlue satellite isn't much more than that.

Torrents don't have ratios.

If share ratios don exits, then I'm confused.

(Unless you are using one of those private illegal sites)

(See article topic)

They were by far the most restrictive ISP: See http://wiki.vuze.com/w/Bad_ISPs#Argentina

0.3% chance this report isnt selection bias. Only 1000 torrents? Only 23 trackers? Why not 25? Was those extra 2 going to destroy your stats? How about 1 million torrents, taken from a specific date in time; over as many trackers you can find. http://wiki.vuze.com/w/Legal_torrent_sites Omg I did 250,000 torrents and only went to the above link for 29 trackers. New article: Study analyses 29 trackers, more then previously, finds 100% torrents legal.

First, as is typical, the Slashdot article is three steps removed from the actual paper, which is worth reading.

It's kind of cute. What makes it work is that the indexing part of the Vuze platform, which is distributed over a few million user machines, has an 8-hour timeout. After eight hours, otherwise unused entries are purged from cache, like DNS cache expiration. So it's possible to use Vuze for unreliable short-term storage of key-value pairs.

(Normally, the Vuze hash is used as a index to BitTorrent blocks, and if there's a block on a server, the server puts it into the hash and refreshes it periodically, so the block stays indexed. But it's possible to put arbitrary key-value pairs into the distributed hash that have no relationship to BitTorrent blocks. If you put info in the hash and don't refresh it, it goes away after eight hours.)

So the sender generates a key, encrypts the message, spreads the key across some number of key-value pairs on random Vuze clients, sends a message telling what key-value pairs in Vuze contain the crypto key, and deletes the local copy of the key. The receiver gets the message, looks up the key-value pairs specified in the Vuze hash, reconstructs the key, decrypts the message, displays it, and deletes the local copy of the key. The receiving client has to do this every time the message is viewed.

This violates the Vuze terms of service, incidentally.

Look to this site/page:
http://www.vuze.com/ , WB is participating too. Also there is Miro ( http://www.getmiro.com/ ) which will do lot better than Hulu.

If Hulu shows me "Sorry, currently our video library can only be streamed from within the United States", I can't really care about them. They didn't understand the Internet's 101. If their market is USA, there is something called Tivo and TV on/off button :)

You can download a smaller version here. It's a 176MB .MKV file.

http://www.vuze.com/details/2OQKU47Y56JSCE6RXQ2W5JNDSL3KBEM7.html

I'm also on Bell for DSL and I'm currently torrenting it at 600KBps.

For Vuze, formerly Azureus, there are Ono and P4P, which should do what you're looking for, although for different reasons. Unfortunately, they both rely on people in your region being interested in the same torrents you are, while P4P additionally benefits from an iTracker, an ISP provided tracker that's topology aware (they did some work to prioritize based on ping latency, using that as a distance estimate, but I don't know if it's a fallback mechanism). Due to the iTracker infrastructure and possibly conflicting supporters, there are some privacy concerns.

I thought that Vuze (formerly Azureus) was one of the better legally protected torrent programs. Considering they are legitimately trying to use the distributed hosting model I would hope they counter-sue for reputation damages. http://www.vuze.com/Terms.html

What? Vuze is great. It's like High Definition youtube integrated with bittorrent. How do you browse? Well, go see for yourself: http://www.vuze.com/app

I love it.

You've obviously never heard of Vuze (which features commercial distribution), Linux, or OpenOffice torrents

I use and like Azureus, and I totally agree that they follow good programming practices, but have you seen this "Vuze" shit they put out in the new version 3.0? They're trying to be all content-portally and changed the default, intuitive Azureus view.

http://www.vuze.com/Screenshots.html

Not that it isn't a smart idea to try to steal some of YouTube's pie... but it definitely isn't a "simple" bittorrent client anymore.

In this case, yes. The movie file is provides by the Azureus service Vuze. From what I understand, they have permission to provide HD trailers to Vuze users. Their business model, in fact, is based around the core idea that HD content is too expensive to host through a standard HTTP download model. To combat that cost they provide a Bittorrent service that allows content producers to upload their HD content to Vuze for ultra-fast seeding on Vuze's servers combined with the extra bandwidth of P2P users.

While it is still a long way from becoming the "Youtube in HD" that they originally pitched it as, it does still have its uses. HD Trailers are one example. Another is the HD version of various short films which have been freely distributed. (Though that "Elephant's Dream" sci-fi/fantasy movie makes absolutely no sense. It was amazingly good CG, but perhaps next time they could include a story?) ;-)

Real Networks warned open source community about future potential problem with DRM, it got covered on Slashdot and they got flamed instead.

Yes, they have a working DRM solution for almost everything you can imagine. Millions of Verizon etc. phones are using their software already to play purchased music. Of course, this happens because the WOKE UP and saw the power of open source, created Helix community offering their millions dollars worth patents for free to GPL projects.

I also heard BBC other Windows Media DRM vendor is not so happy with feedback they get from the users. Azureus'es "Media center" like version (Vuze, 3.x) already sells BBC content in Wmedia DRM. Imagine a Java 5/6 application which works exactly same on 3-4 completely different operating systems is "prisoned" to Windows DRM solution to make money. Would you be happy? :)

There the BBC Content: http://www.vuze.com/channel/bbc

Vuze runs on anything with modern Java but can't "sell"/"rent" legal content because of the format (Wmedia DRM) is hostile to any OS other than Windows. Now they are attempting to create same thing.

There is a waiting scandal there for Professional IT media. If any left...

Vuze, commercial arm of Azureus Java client has torrent

http://www.vuze.com/details/QZ7CUAV5ENW2HC34CBKUTR Y6ZZ7DGLDG.html

I am posting this link since Vuze has no copyright issues it seems (all reviewed) and Azureus is multiplatform/oss java 5 client for torrents.

Also 1080 people are getting right now.