Slyck interviewed BitTorrent CEO Ashwin Navin. They talk about the future of BitTorrent, their cooperation with the MPAA, Azureus & uTorrent and a lot more.
The edited Slyck version can be found here.
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Tom: So what do you think one of the biggest misperceptions is from what you read, from what we were talking about before, in the [...]
Azureus, one of the most popular BitTorrent clients is planning to add a “content layer”. This integrated platform “should” make it possible to share videos and other large files with friends, family and strangers all around the world.
The Azureus team aims to improve the user experience and make sharing and finding content easier and [...]
Azureus won the award for “most popular open-source software” This is the result of the first annual SourceForge.net Community Choice Awards. Azureus is one of the most active and most downloaded project on SourceForge. It seems that P2P software is popular, because Emule finished in second position.
Azureus just released a brand new version. Azureus is still SourceForge’s most active project, and in the top 3 of most downloaded utilities. There are no new gadgets, primarily bugfixes and performance improvements.
including:
Encryption bug fix
Faster crash recovery hashing
Reduced the # of windows popping up at once on first run after installation
Fixed startup when [...]
Bitcomet, one of the most popular BitTorrent clients decided to follow Azureus and uTorrent by implementing PE/MSE encryption in its latest release. Bitcomet was the first BitTorrent client that supported protocol header encryption, the switch to the new encryption method means that the three biggest torrent clients out there are using compatible encryption methods, good [...]
The new Azureus is out. Some nice improvements are made, besides the usual bugfixes.
