Azureus Decentralizes Bittorrent

BobPaul writes "While the eXeem project to decentralize Bittorrent remains in open beta, the Azureus Java Bittorrent project has recently released a major update that, among other things offers 'a distributed, decentralised database that can be used to track decentralised torrents. This permits both "trackerless" torrents and the maintenance of swarms where the tracker has become unavailable or where the torrent was removed from the tracker.' It doesn't contain the search functionality of eXeem, but it's also not a beta product and is licensed under the GPL. Could this and compatible clients be the replacement to SuprNova and Lokitorrents, or does the lack of search negate its effectiveness?"

Comments

This is great

[giginger]

I hate when I stop a torrent, because I need to use my connection for something else, and I go to start it again and the tracker is down. Unless I'm mistaken surely this means this sort of thing won't happen much anymore?

Wait a tick...

[Moofie]

"offers 'a distributed, decentralised database that can be used to track decentralised torrents. "

Wait, but is it decentralis[z]ed AND distributed?

Department of redundancy department...