Azureus Adds Featured Content
Written by Ernesto on September 19, 2006Azureus added a searchable database of featured content to their website. This new feature is likely to be a part of the shift towards implementing a (commercial) content layer.
The featured content page includes several types of free and legal media, ranging from the latest Rocketboom episodes to Rob Costlow’s discography. Unfortunately, the featured content is [...]
Azureus added a searchable database of featured content to their website. This new feature is likely to be a part of the shift towards implementing a (commercial) content layer.
The featured content page includes several types of free and legal media, ranging from the latest Rocketboom episodes to Rob Costlow’s discography. Unfortunately, the featured content is only available for Azureus users. Personally I hate to see Azureus alienating from the .torrent file format, but it probably fits their future plans better.
update: Azureus included (manual) .torrent download links for non-Azureus users now.
This is yet another step towards Azureus version 3.0, which will include commercial content. This probably means that Azureus users can buy (drm supported) media through Azureus. These new developments are in part funded by BV Capital, a company that previously supported projects like del.icio.us and peerflix.
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I bet that uTorrent will implement something like this pretty soon; I’d like to see something like RSS feeds for .torrents that they can feature on their page.
I really hope that uTorrent does not do something like this. uTorrent is a lightweight BT client that very cleanly and efficiently downloads torrents. Please don’t turn it into a bloated, useless “featured content” client that will in all probability fail anyway.
If uTorrent implement this, they should also continue with the “lightweight” as Alex called it. Would be nice to have a choise.
Probably they will alienate themselves from the rest of the community. And if I’m not misstaking, Azureus is open souce, that will probably lead to a fork kalled “open azureus” or “freezureus” or something along the line. In case that will not happen I believe that people will just look for other clients. It’s hard to beat uTorrent, it really kicks azureus ass in every aspect imo (not that Im still using windows, but the last time I checked and what I have read, it still does).
Baseline: Azureus is going bye bye.
Manual torrent download links for non-Azureus users are available now for all featured content.
Thanks Nolar, I will update the article…
[quote comment="12773"] It’s hard to beat uTorrent, it really kicks azureus ass in every aspect imo (not that Im still using windows, but the last time I checked and what I have read, it still does).
Baseline: Azureus is going bye bye.[/quote]
Azureus Reaches A Milestone
Yeah, of course Az is on the way out when just 2 months ago it was getting 2M downloads per month.
Azureus is no where near as bad as people seem to like to make out, at least in my opinion is isn’t, i’ve never understood all the comments made by people about it being resource heavy, its running on my PC 24/7 and i’ve never had even the slightest problem or drop in system performance because of it.
IMO it’s one of the best Torrent Clients available.
when azureus leaves its open source roots, it will be clear they’ve sold out. its already known that they left france for the silicon valley… and they’re raising money from investors… its only a matter of time before they ditch their GPL license for a proprietary one…
guys, you were the last hold outs…. dont be so lame! dont sell out!
and why would you leave france where the government has a clue???
There are no plans to change the Azureus license; it will continue to be open source.
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