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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."
Yes, you're right, but what do you use instead? - What else supports encryption (absolutely must for most UK users these days to avoid throttling) and allows you to prioritize files in a collection? And has all those other useful features like decentralised source sharing, etc?
And for Linux, use TorrentFlux which is a PHP torrent client which is controlable from the web.
It's really sweet and it's way nicer than VNCing to a Linux desktop filled with BitTorrent clients opened.
The hip way to get your IP. No ads, ever.
Do any other BT clients offer RSS functionality?
I'm a signature virus. Please copy me to your signature so I can replicate.
USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TT STAT STARTED TIME COMMAND /Applications/Azureus.app/Contents/MacOS/java_swt -psn_0_1048577
ben 267 6.1 14.0 540848 127992 ?? S 6Apr06 4258:54.27
After running for 23 days (and 44GB of transfers), activity monitor reports 124MB of real memory, 528MB of virtual.
Dividing the CPU time by the number of minutes it's been running yields 12.8% average CPU usage.
This is on a G4 1GHz with 896MB of ram.
I've never seen the cpu utilization issue or the window resize issue.
Problem is, what else is out there for the Mac? I'm still using Azureus with pretty much the same problems as you simply because I can't find anything that offers the nice 'traditional P2P' two pane interface with the close-up detail windows for each torrent, nor the ability to pick and choose or prioritise files within a torrent. Anyone out there got any recomendations (OSX compatible)? uTorrent looks like exactly what I need, but it's windows only.
Lies. Azureus is great for what i use it for. Upnp support, encryption, graphical swarm trees, the ability to download only from specific seeders/peers, the ability to throttel my speeds at will...The list goes on. Alot of people say azureus is bloated, but those people have not availed of azureus` full range of features. It more than deserves it's place at the top of the list. However, i am nervous as to this "advertising" that's going to be implimented. if it's implimented in a non-invasive, "banner ad" type way, i will continue to use Azureus as my client of choice. However, if they impliment "tracking cookies, website loggers" etc, and take my information, then by god ill make the switch to uTorrent faster than you can say "John mcgillacuddy"
Honestly, why should I care?
.torrent is there. And 99% of the time, it's down in the dock doing its stuff with the GUI swapped out anyhow.
This is a utility program, not a beauty pageant contestant.
It's got a job to do. It does it, as well or better than any other option.
The GUI isn't pretty, but it is superbly functional. Just about anything you might ever need to do with a
And I disagree that it's a 'bad interface' - it's just not a particularly pretty one. A *bad interface*, to me, would be one that doesn't allow me to access a function I need, or one that misleads me, misdirects me, into doing x when I wanted to do y. So the Azureus interface is actually a pretty good one, I'd say.
Of course, if you honestly think it's more important to look good, than to function well, then I guess it's not for you...
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Friends don't let friends enable ecmascript.
"They don't have to offer anything period, legitimate nor otherwise."
[From the FAQ]
"Azureus has a built in tracker to allow users to share torrents directly, rather than uploading them to an "external" tracker. This is called "hosting" and can be performed by selecting this option from the context menu on the "My Torrents" view."
My my, no central tracker for the "legitimate" copyright holder to target.
"For different reasons, you may want to prevent access to your computer to certain lists of IPs."
Tsk, tsk. Keeps them pesky "legitimate" copyright holders out of the works.
"Access to the tracker web pages and the tracker announce process can be controlled by password settings specified on the Tracker configuration panel. This supports basic authentication and as such the user name and password values are transmitted in plain text. This can further be protected by using SSL (below). Note that password protecting the tracker announce process requires a BitTorrent client capable of handling authentication, such as Azureus. Communication with the tracker can be encrypted using SSL, again this requires a suitable client such as Azureus."
Now that's no way to treat the "legitimate" copyright holder.
"The following encapsulation protocol is designed to provide a completely random-looking header and (optionally) payload to avoid passive protocol identification and traffic shaping. When it is used with the stronger encryption mode (RC4) it also provides reasonable security for the encapsulated content against passive eavesdroppers."
Uh, oh. Hide and go seek with "legitimate" content.