Help Azureus to Fight BitTorrent Throttling ISPs
ISPs have been throttling BitTorrent traffic for years now, but only recently has this turned into a political issue. The BitTorrent client Azureus has now developed a plugin through which you can help distinguishing the good from the bad ISPs, data they will use to strengthen their argument in the ongoing Comcast debate.
Last November Azureus petitioned the FCC, resulting in a FCC hearing which was held a month ago. One of the issues raised there, was that there is little data available on the scope of BitTorrent throttling, a gap Azureus now plans to fill.
“We at Vuze (Azureus) decided there was something important you can do to help elevate the debate,” says Jay Monahan, General Counsel at Azureus. “We created a simple software “plug-in” that works with your Vuze (Azureus) application to gather information about potential interference with your Internet traffic.”
The main purpose of the plugin is to gather factual data on which ISPs are throttling with BitTorrent, and to what extent. Already there is an ever growing list of bad ISPs available at the Azureus wiki, but the data from the plugin will make their case even stronger.
When the first ISPs started to throttle BitTorrent traffic, Azureus was one of the first BitTorrent clients to introduce a countermeasure, namely, protocol header encryption. However, this was only the beginning of an ongoing cat and mouse game between ISPs and BitTorrent client developers.
Unfortunately, BitTorrent encryption doesn’t work against the more aggressive, and ever evolving throttling applications. Even though there is a Comcast proof BitTorrent encryption in the making, it is always easier to use political means to stop ISPs from messing with our traffic in the first place. The plugin is listed at Azureus’ Sourceforge page if you want to help out.
For the paranoid BitTorrent users among us, Monahan guarantees that the data will be sent anonymously. “Be assured that sharing this data with us does not involve disclosure of any of your personally identifiable information. We will aggregate the data and may talk about it or disclose it publicly, but no data about any specific user will be disclosed as part of this effort.”
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Set up azureus to have seeds queued.
If you think Azureus is a resource hog.
“Right now the plug-in only works on PCs, not Macs, but we are actively working on future versions.”
As soon as they get me a Mac version, count me in! Maybe I should just run it on my PC for a while for the sake of gathering information anyway.
Anyway, it’s definitely good to see this kind of initiative among filesharing industry leaders.
Ever since uTorrent got picked up by BitTorrent inc, Azureus is the only BT client worth a damn… and it’s a hell of a client at that.
Keep up the good work.
You know I wouldn’t have the problems I do with utorrent if they were opensource like this. Its when shits closed that I have issues I’d also like to see utorrent give a little bit back to the foss community with their new info they have on getting around comcast protection.
Again opensource is the way to go with bit torrent its just too bad people dont realize this when they use utorrent. Which was a good client until it was bought out by corporations who don’t have the users best interest in mind.
Hey, why don’t you guys try Deluge?
I’m using it, and somehow I can get around their throttling shit.
I am from the UK and a uTorrent user, seeing as it is lighter, and I am using a laptop with only 512ram.
But I will use Azereus for a while considering it has this new add on. I am very interested to see.
“Be assured that sharing this data with us does not involve disclosure of any of your personally identifiable information. We will aggregate the data and may talk about it or disclose it publicly, but no data about any specific user will be disclosed as part of this effort.”
Well I’m sorry, that’s not enough for me. If they really want to assure people of that, they better back it up with the code of the plugin, they should comment and lay out the code and say what does what, so the programmer who are using bittorrent can verify this claim.
I for one won’t be using this.
Fuck Azureus that’s a retarded torrent client.
Switch to uTorrent n00bs.
FUCK TORRENTLEECH!
Very nice, i expect this on uTorrent soon!
Limit bandwidth is not a problem for me, my ISP does only that (AFAK).
Why does ever think Azuerus is a resource hog i’m downloading all sorts of stuff on azuerus now. And i’m only using about 3% of my cpu and 108,932K of memory. And this is a 3 year old pc with a crappy old P4 prescot 3.2ghz & 2gb of RAM.
There is nothing better than this!
http://pluking.blogspot.com
@33
Kids and their toys. I have an ancient Celeron at 800Mhz with 512 RAM. Right now utorrent uploads at about 200 KB/s.
Memory usage is at 15.004K and CPU usage at 3%.
Bloatware remains bloatware.
[quote comment="318842"]Fuck Azureus that’s a retarded torrent client.
Switch to uTorrent n00bs.
[/quote]
u are right Azureus is for PROs, so all n00bs go use utorrent
[quote comment="318955"]@33
Kids and their toys. I have an ancient Celeron at 800Mhz with 512 RAM. Right now utorrent uploads at about 200 KB/s.
Memory usage is at 15.004K and CPU usage at 3%.
Bloatware remains bloatware.[/quote]
can u open jpg image with this wreckage?
[quote comment="318671"][quote comment="318607"]azureus is a resource hog. I do however appreciate the efforts.
J.[/quote]
We are in the multi-core age with 2gb ram as the norm, 4gb is becomming the norm and 8gb kits are cheap as chips.
Your argument was valid in the p100 days.[/quote]
As much as the technology has ramped, I have to agree that Azureus clogs my box a bit. And Java is a huge security risk. The ‘xploits for Java are legendary.
http://tinyurl.com/2d2vd2 (Google search for ‘Java exploits’.
This link is nothing someone else couldn’t find on their own, but if you don’t have to run Java, I wouldn’t suggest it. Not to mention the annoying Java Updates, cause the code is so manipulable it has to tended to like an AIDS case, constantly.
I admit the interface is feature-rich, but I prefer to wank to other things.
[quote comment="318683"]agree with 21[/quote]
Too bad you didn’t understand 22…
Azureus might be a resource hog (well I changed some startup options for the Java VM, it now takes more memory but it’s much faster), but it has a lot of useful features I miss on almost every other client (oh, and I use Linux, but I’m also comprising uTorrent+WINE). Currently using it with seeding 1000+ torrents.
I used to run a really old machine with a 1.1 ghz processor, 1 GB of RAM, 80 GB HDD, Windows XP, and Azureus and I never had a problem with it being a resource hog at all. I would run it and then go and do other things on that machine and never had a problem.
I used to like Azureus before it went to VUZE. I dislike their new interface that is like a wannabe Joost. I prefer the old, sweet & simple interface of Azureus.
But beyond that Azureus is a kick ass torrent downloader and I have never had a problem with it.
[quote comment="318955"]@33
Kids and their toys. I have an ancient Celeron at 800Mhz with 512 RAM. Right now utorrent uploads at about 200 KB/s.
Memory usage is at 15.004K and CPU usage at 3%.
Bloatware remains bloatware.[/quote]
And that machine would still be capable of running Azures with ease. 3% of 3.2ghz is around 100mhz + 100mb comes well into those specks.
P.s. Dont try and argue with me on this one i used to run Azures on a similar spec machine untill i gave it away to someone so they could browse the net. What is it your using windows 98 SE ?.
Damn, they need to update this for macs. I really want to help out.
Switch to Speakeasy:
http://www.speakeasy.net
[quote comment="318671"][quote comment="318607"]azureus is a resource hog. I do however appreciate the efforts.
J.[/quote]
We are in the multi-core age with 2gb ram as the norm, 4gb is becomming the norm and 8gb kits are cheap as chips.
Your argument was valid in the p100 days.[/quote]
for what is a simple network transfer protocol, with error checking, why should it need a 2Ghz processor? 3 years ago, I was told by an az developerm that its reccomended system was half a gig of ram, and 2ghz processor. Solidworks 2004 didn’t have that high of an requirement, and thats a full-on parametric 3d CAD program.
It’s sloppy programming, and something that shouldn’t be encouraged. Here’s something you might find amusing - I have an old 8-bit computer i used to use for databases, running microsoft DRS, circa 1985. I had a dual p3-550 running win2k, and access, and the load times, and run times for both were similar for similar sets of data. With more ersources, people bog the code down with more crap, and slow things down. You end up with systems doing the stuff with modern software that 20yo computers did with 20yo software just as fast.
Coding standards have plummeted in recent years. Some of the worst, happens to be open source software, and its MO is the cause of it. Right now, Firefox having ahd one tab open for 6 hours, is using the same amount of ram as Opera which has had 30-50 tabs open over hte last 3 days (and which is remembering all the history for all the tabs i’ve closed as well)
Lets encourage better coding, rather than buying ever more hardware to deal with coders inadequacies.
Oh, and the machine I’m on - athlon 1Ghz with 384Mb ram. only thing it stumbles with, is badly coded software.
I agree with 45.
so we need explanation of these measurements! I see them but i dont know they are bad or good!?
Looking forward to the Mac version
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