Vuze Goes Portable, With a Price Tag
Written by Ernesto on May 08, 2009Vuze, the BitTorrent client formerly known as Azureus, has just been released in a portable version. Unlike the regular Vuze client, Vuze to Go is closed source and costs $9.99. No doubt a pirated version will end up on torrent sites sooner or later.
Over the past few months Vuze has been implementing lots of changes and new features based on feedback from its active community.
In response to a recent survey where 72% of Vuze users indicated they own a portable hard drive, the developers have now rolled out a portable version of their client, so that people can carry it around on a flash drive or external hard disk.
In order to get it to work on systems that don’t have Java installed, Vuze to Go contains a virtual operating system in addition to the regular Vuze application. Vuze teamed up with a company called Ceedo who developed the ‘virtualization’ technology. This partnership does come with some downsides though.
First of all, the Vuze to Go client costs $9.99, which is quite unusual for a BitTorrent client. Vuze’s Director of Marketing Chris Thun told TorrentFreak that they were required to charge for the new application, and that the price tag was unavoidable.
“We’ve invested in creating a portable solution that has an entirely different ease-of-use relative to any other solution in the market. We believe that if we’re solving a real problem in an elegant way, our users will be willing to pay for it,” he said.
Although TorrentFreak was assured that the core Vuze application will always remain free, one of the downsides of teaming up with Ceedo is that the portable version of Vuze is not open source like the main client. “The Vuze application bundled into Vuze To Go is still open source. However, the Ceedo virtualization package is not open source,” Thun explained to TorrentFreak.
A free trial of Vuze to Go is available for those who want to try it out. It’s pretty much identical to the regular client and it ran pretty smoothly in our tests. uTorrent users who want to go portable don’t need a separate application.
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I don’t use vuze. I think utorrent is way cooler anyway
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Vuse blows…. Utorrent has been capable of doing this for years, and without any stupid “virtualization”
Yea i gotta agree, Vuse does blow…
Utorrent all the way.
Its a shot in the foot! Time to change BT client. Deluge anyone?
I always have used Azureus until it updated to Vuse. It bitten a big chunk out of my laptop’s memory/cpu…
So then I downloaded Utorrent and never been happier!
uTorrent FTW. Small, easy, and portable by design. Most people don’t realize that uTorrent is only one .exe, Nothing more.
Yeah, never really liked Azureus/Vuze anyway. Paying ten bucks for a version that works on a USB stick is just absurd to me.
bought ceedo a while back. it didn’t work with my linux OS wrecked my external hard drive.
yep i’ll keep deluge kthx
Ever since Azureus went Vuze, it’s been downhill and it’ll continue following that path it seems.
I use Azureus right now, simply because the addons allow some advanced features that I require. I use utorrent when ever possible and run both concurrently.
LOL Charging for a client? That just cracks me up. Thanks for the joke. :)
*checks calendar* ….hmmm, not april 1st?
:O
Too bad it is originally written in Java. If it was C/C++ with a corss platform GUI toolkit like xvWidgets, it would be much faster.
µTorrent …then, now and always.
Epic comment #2.
Lol however remember to donate to the people who made it possible if possible.
Too bad cuz pirates don’t pay in order to pirate.
Required to charge for it?
Give me a damn break. There’s nothing inherent about writing a portable torrent client that requires you to charge for it. See uTorrent.
Also love how they made Vuze To Go because they wanted to “solve a real problem”, never mind the fact that it’s already been solved. Several times.
See, kids, this is why you never listen to anybody whose title is Director of Marketing. They’re professional liars.
@6 I use it about two months under FreeBSD. It’s cool it has not only usable GTK+ interface out of the box, but a daemon like rtorrent that will download torrents even if X.org fails too.
it bloody crap both of them i liked i intialty but rapeing the comunity who worked on Azureus is just plane worng. one of the reason why i am very cearfull to which projects i donate time to.
but serously Azureus has got bloated.
good for them, trying to actually make a business from torrent access.
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>Paying to pirate
HUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUR
DO NOT WANT!
bloated piece of shit, lol java.
a home version was out in january
Portable Vuze v4.1.0.0 with internal Java 6 Update 11
- No Vuze! This is set to the classic Azureus v2.x interface.
- Set to “Advanced” options.
- Set to 15Kb/s up and 80 max connections.
- Saves torrent files and downloads in its own “Vuze4″ folder.
- Transport encryption turned on (but allows non-encrypted incoming connections).
- Port is set to one above 55,000.
- Unticked “Allow Vuze to send anonymous version number…” etc.
- Does not “Check Associations” on startup.
- Does not show splash screen.
- Does not “Check for latest version when Vuze starts”
- Does not “Check for latest version periodically”
- Does not “Automatically open the update assistant when an update is available”
- Does not automatically download torrents, prompts for destination folder.
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What is right??
U download pirated materials with a paid software or
U download pirated materials with a pirated software????
Oh my, just look at the “reference” spam at the bottom of the page.
Innovative though…
Just ask for donations if you NEED to raise funds so bad.
It’s not like all pirates are cheapskates, we just don’t like handing our hard earned money over to the Mafia.
I mean *cough* *cough, the RIAA/MPAA
Wake up you foolish utorrent fanboys – your using an app which is made by people who want to lock you, and they refuse to show you how the software you’re using works! Use a properly free and open source client unless you want to cooperate with the people who want to throw you in jail!
I think vuze deserves our support. I don’t really like it as a client as its a bit too bloated and a memory hog, but I’d choose it over utorrent any day.
@30
Can you provide any credible sources to those claims?
I don’t believe in conspiracy theories.
rtorrent .. w00T
who needs portable if it is a ssh connect away? lol
Sorry, but I don’t think this is gonna work… the writing has been on the wall for a while, though, since Vuze is obviously much more commercial than Azureus was.
Well, if a public computer does not have java installed, this is useful.
10 bucks isn’t bad.
charging money for free software – lolol
@ #30
vuzes new portable client is closed source…. so I’m not sure what your point is with your statement.
@35 – it’s the same client. It’s the virtual environment (from Ceedo) that Vuze runs inside off that is a closed source product (not developed by Vuze)
@20 should check the source (http://blog.vuze.com/index.php/2009/05/06/introducing-vuze-to-go/) in addition to ernesto’s report. “Required to charge” is for the Ceedo virtualization software, which is both commercial software and closed-source. From the Marketing Director’s blog post: “While the core version of Vuze remains free (and always will)…”.
lolzz!hope tis a may fool joke!! a portable apps costs 10$ !!ha ha! but i alwz like utorrent,dats cool n tiny ! Deluge for on linux only !!
vuze rocks cuz it really let you control your bandwidth…utorrent just eat it ….don’t try to configure it cuz it won’t work….vuze has it all controlled the way you want…you could also have friends (friend boost which utorrent doesn’t have) and alot more features…vuze made a mistake with that price but I think they deserve it
happy deluge user.
Dont need no bloated java shit.
Ha! What a joke, uT FTW.
Made the switch from azureus to deluge a bit after they started with this corporate vooze tomfoolery. deluge is nice, apart from a bit less control on seeding priority and such.
I loved azureus, but once they switched to Vuze, I went to Utorrent.
I’m sure the software writers created backdoors in to their software. ;)
There is no such thing as bloated Java. Maybe you’ve used a Java application that was horribly written, but that isn’t Java itself. You can turn off all the Vuze stuff quite easily and make it just like it was when the name was Azureus. All open source projects have to get money from somewhere, and if none of you asses are giving it, they’ll sell stuff instead.
Vuze did, does, and will continue to kick uTorrent’s ass.
This has been done before by other people, thought not elegantly.
Sure the machine doesn’t need Java, but if you are using a portable HD, or even a largish flash drive/SD card why not just install a linux distro on there in the first place?
I won’t get into another rant on how terrible Vuze is in terms of bloat other than to say that this latest feature is less than compelling to me. It is only certain to add yet more bloat to an already terribly inefficient app.
Bottom line, this isn’t worth 10 dollars, or even anything really.
Bandwidth to download uTorrent: $0.05
Power to run laptop: <$0.01
Charging money for bittorrent client?
Priceless
lol, like cmon guys, they cant really expect people to pay this right??
hmmm….to download and enjoy free stuff you have to pay?
always utorrent!
i can’t wait until someone cracks it and it ends up on all the tracker networks. i just have to see their reactions.
if it will be something like ‘downloading the program that we’ve woked on for months for free is wrong’ i’ll ‘crack’ up.
#14
19 May 08, 2009 at 20:57 by neetermet
Too bad cuz pirates don’t pay in order to pirate.
Considering how many links for rapidshit and the like you find around… I’m not tempted by that but I’d disagree with your opinion.
sensing some irony, whilst downloading the paid version off the free version, did the same with limewire lol, noobs
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LOL, i have this already, 3months ago. I dloaded frrom a poratable site, for free
Pay to leech?
Sorry sir, you are ordered here’by’now to walk the plank!
I’m reporting everyone who downloads it illegaly.
Support them assmats. Here in wisconsin we have a saying:
“It kills to leech, and leeches kill to profit”
People are seriously overlooking the new Media Server and video conversion built into Vuze. You drag and drop video into the PS3, Xbox 360 or iTunes icons. And BOOM it converts it to work on those platforms and sets up a media server. so you can play anything back on those consoles on your big screen tv. It’s worth the price tag just for that!
even knowing one of the main developers before he went state side couldnt keep me tied to Vuze, utorrent is much better.
Vuze sucks ass anyway
A 135mb installation, no x64 support and a price tag? Vuze has lost the plot.
I’ve been using Vuze (and before that, Azureus) for years. I’ve been generally happy with it, but didn’t really like the changes made at the time of the name-change.
Anyway, I’ve just checked out Deluge (on Ubuntu), and it’s great! It does exactly what I want of a BT client, and uses less than 10% of the memory of Vuze.
Thanks for the recommendations!
:-)
its cracked already – should see some torrent filtration later this weekend apparently
Confused.
Why didn’t they use VirtualBox or Xen?
Why do I want the overhead of a VM, solely for a torrent client?
Why would I pay $10, when I could have a more useful product (Vuze + a free VM I can run other things on as well) for free?
Obviously, I don’t have all the facts, but it sounds like they made a bad decision and are now trying to get their users to pay for it.
who the hell uses torrents? it’s garbage, slow and unreliable… get a life you losers
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So you don’t believe anything? Even the official conspiracy theory? 30 just explained closed source is illegal to infrige, so they would throw you in jail. Open-source is free, no jail time.
Lol it’s easier ofcource to redicule a theory than really debunk it. HAHAAHHA I pity the fool. “I voted obama cause I have hope³³³³ and we can change³³³³” Moron!
I just simply relocate AppData\Azureus to a previous folder: http://code.google.com/p/mcorelabs/wiki/RelocateVuzeSettings
Go ktorrent!
torrentflux-b4rt ? always “portable” ;)
Why would you buy this? Seriously?
I (or anyone really, not much skill involved) could create a portable version of Vuze using Thinstall and it would cost nothing.
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I would happily pay for LimeWire but not for Vuze. The more it goes, the more Vuze looks like a commercial crap. I bet they will go entirely proprietary soon. Bundled with a virtual OS, come on. It was a nice client though…
utorrent is for stupid ppl who can’t understand complicated things like computers and torrents. It’s so basic it makes me violent. I only used it once and had to punch 17 geeks afterwards. I don’t use it cos I’m not a noob and have some brains.
While Azureus struck me as more easy-to-use then uTorrent, Number 77.
Although the plug-in that allows one to block certain torrent clients from downloading from you is rather nice. downloading from people that use bitcomet clients and then not giving other users of that client anything back is very evil, but BitComet users deserve it.
@78
Let us go forward and great ubarTorrent where the user manually inspects the packets and pieces them together, via the command line.
@78
Not that I agree, but that’s hella funny.
wait?? if vuze was originally based on azureus which was open-source and gnu wouldn’t charging and making vuze closed source be in breech of the original terms of azureus? even though it’s a new version I can promise it takes lots and lots of code from azureus that has gone back since the very beginning.. using any of this open-source gnu code in your program means you MUST make it open-source as well….this seems soooo fucked in the gnu world.
Azureus was a good client before vuze was added to it, which is when I started using uTorrent.
I agree that charging for a torrent client is a joke, of course people will pirate it, they should have known better. If they really wanted to get some funds from this they should have released it for free and asked for donations.
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