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Azureus reaches milestone

Ernesto — Mon, 21 Aug 2006 21:26:45 +0000

The popular BitTorrent client (2 million downloads a month) Azureus just released version 2.5.0.0. The new release includes some great new features.

To list a few:

send a friend (screenshots)

Reduced CPU usage

Auto upload speed

Ability to best guess folder you want to save torrent data to based on existing torrents

Ability to rename the displayed title of a download

Azureus received commercial funding last month to support the “content layer” where commercial downloads will start to appear. The content layer will probably be implemented in version 3.0.0.0.0.0

You can view the complete changelog over here, and download Azureus 2.5.0.0 right away.

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Azureus 2.4.0.2 released

Ernesto — Fri, 17 Mar 2006 16:08:27 +0000

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 config files corrupted
Data transfer from slow peers improved

Changelog
Download

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Social BitTorrent Client launched

Ernesto — Thu, 16 Mar 2006 18:59:35 +0000

Tribler is a new BitTorrent client that adds a social layer on top of the regular features. Tribler allows you to create groups, friends and it supports tags and profiles. The official release of this Social BitTorrent client is tomorrow, but everyone is free to grab a test version from tribler.org.

This first version is an extension of the existing ABC client and does not have all the proposed functionalities. However, the test version adds a new dimension to BitTorrent.

The extensions are :

-Strong peer authentication; enables groupware extensions and friends.
-Twice the download speed for ADSL users; you can donate your upload capacity to a friend
-Recommendation of files you may which to download
-Removal of .torrent files; replace by short Merkle Hashes which can be put in a URL.

Cooperative downloading (click)

But Tribler is still in its testing phase:

this is not a full public release. Only 1000 downloads will be allowed and then the link will be taken down. Please give it a try, so we can turn this into a public release soon. Please send the bugs you found or your comments to the Tribler sourceforge bugreport page.

Warning 1: For the internal test version, the software will output some debug text and error message to tribler.exe.log. Some of them are normal output, such as”secover: Handler registered for RESERVE_PIECES”, “buddycast: BuddyCast starts up”. If you see “Traceback (most recent call last):” in the log file, some errors may occur and please send your log file to us using the above bug report form.

Download The Test Version
Read our previous post on Tribler

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Bitcomet follows Azureus and uTorrent

Ernesto — Thu, 09 Mar 2006 23:02:26 +0000

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 news.

Encrypting protocol headers is needed to fight ISP’s that are using bit-shaping applications to throttle the traffic that is generated by BitTorrent.

It should only ne a matter of time before other clients are going to implement this “new standard”. It is doubtful if the official clients is going to support it since Bram Cohen was not really enthusiast about these developments.

Links: Azureus, Bitcomet, uTorrent

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BitTorrent aids Terrorists and Pedophiles

Ernesto — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 23:33:35 +0000

Sure, ISP’s don’t like BitTorrents new gadget, but what has this to do with terrorists and pedophiles. Newsnight makes it seem like encryption makes it impossible to track traffic and that all filesharers are thieves, which is absolute nonsense. In fact, Newsnight didn’t looked into the actual story at all, but they managed the get a comment from a former CIA officer, to “confirm” their story.

The edition of Newsnight in question led to a lot of critique, and today Adam Livingstone Newsnight’s Ubergeek tried to calm things down and made a public apology.

First though, an apology. File sharing is not theft. It has never been theft. Anyone who says it is theft is wrong and has unthinkingly absorbed too many Recording Industry Association of America press releases. We know that script line was wrong. It was a mistake. We’re very, very sorry.

Good to hear some wise words after all

Link to torrent (non terrorists only)

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Tribler: Social BitTorrent Beta version Leaked

Ernesto — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 00:22:46 +0000

The final version will allow you to import existing groups from programs like MSN and Gmail. Tribler is based on the sourcecode of the ABC torrent client and supports “regular” torrents. By doing a search on some the most popular torrent sites a leaked Beta was easily found.

More info
Tribler.org
Leaked Version

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