Azureus Inc. Moves Toward Commercialization

SamBob writes "Future releases of the most popular BitTorrent client, Azureus, will come bundled with a 'platform' for media companies to promote their product to Azureus' multi-million users, reports Slyck.com. Azureus Inc., who are the newly formed company behind the Azureus software, plan to generate a profit from the platform in the future, but in the short-term are hoping to help independent film companies find their audience."

Comments

Re:"Platform?"

[BPinard]

Exactly what I was thinking. This is bad news. Good thing I've been using uTorrent for a while now.

well

[bwd]

It looks like it's time to migrate to utorrent if you haven't already. There no commercialization associated with it and it's much faster. The only downside is that it's for windows only.

Re:well

[Dis*abstraction]

And for the Mac, there's Transmission, an open source Cocoa-native client that looks and feels like it was actually written by a true-blue Mac user with a sense of taste. Caveat: it doesn't support distributed tracking (yet). But for most torrents, it's the leanest, most Mac-like client out there.

Re:well

[EngMedic]

use rTorrent + screen + ssh; even faster, no graphical capaibility required.

Re:I can only hope

[TheRaven64]

I've only used it on OS X, and here it is a travesty. The GUI doesn't do live resizing (unlike every other OS X app). You often need to do a small resize to persuade the GUI to actually draw in the right place. The widgets don't behave quite like the ones that look the same in other apps. After an hour or so of use, it climbs to over 0.5GB of RAM usage (in-core size, not just VM size). It somehow seems to leak CPU - after a couple of hours it will be using 100% of my CPU for no observable reason.

I am not sure how much of this is due to Azureus and how much to SWT, but whatever the cause the result is a completely unusable product.

This does not mean advertising

[anzev]

I'm not sure if all of you just want to post ASAP or can't read but this does not mean they will bundle azureus with adware of any sorts. AFAIK, a content layer will just provide a way of getting free content (they said in TFA that they have not yet analyzed any serious payment methods so this could mean it will be free, or not). Too bad they won't let the big distributors come into play:

"Large movie studios and record labels will not be targeted for the project, as the Azureus team do not believe that they are ready yet. "You're not going to see Star Wars or Batman quite yet," joked Rohter."

So basically everybody will be allowed to make a movie, then post it on this platform, and if I will like the "genre" I will just download it... Kindof :).

Anyway, I think it's premature to judge anything until we see what they've got.

Virtual PC?

[tepples]

On other systems... uTorrent running on Wine? Virtual Machine?

Do you seriously think Mac OS X + Microsoft Virtual PC + Microsoft Windows XP + uTorrent has a smaller footprint than Mac OS X + JVM + Azureus?

Re:BT clients with RSS?

[gooseserbus]

Why not try one of the following:

LH-ABC or ABC_OKC

Borh of these are forks of the popular python-based open source bittorrent client ABC which runs on Linux (and is itself based on BitTornado which extended from from Original Bittorrent Core System, coded by Bram Cohen). These forks should therefore also in turn run on Linux. LH-ABC and ABC_OKC both have support for RSS.

uTorrent a very small and popular closed source Microsoft Windows based bitorrent client. Has extensive support for RSS and can be run on Linux using Wine (I don't know how successfully but I know it can and has been done).

G3 TorrentAnother open-source Python based bittorrent client the Original Bittorrent Core System, coded by Bram Cohen. It has support for RSS and runs on Linux (I think).

Rufus Another open-source Python based bittorrent client (based on G3 Torrent) with support for RSS and runs on Linux (I think).

ZipTorrent Another closed source (and supposedly small) Microsoft Windows based bitorrent client. Has support for RSS, other than that I don't know anything about it.

Re:"Platform?"

[Arker]

Am I the only one who thinks that this really means that it is going to be the next Kazaa?

No, you're not alone, you're in the company of all the other commentors that couldn't be bothered to read the article.