Seriously, about £200 will get you an Intel Core 2 Quad – Q6600 and about 2 gig of nice RAM.

One of my pc’s has that spec and I run Azureus/Vuze in the background whilst playing some mp3′s, encoding a DVD and playing Crysis.

If 100MB of RAM makes you worried, you seriously need to consider upgrading.

What you’re saying is, that in attempting to pursue licensing deals, so that they can provide legal content via their site, and thus give credence to the ‘substantial non-infringeing uses’ argument, that by doing so they’re automatically providing userdata to the content companies?

I think you might want to stay off the conspiracy theory sites a bit, maybe stick to those that know what they’re talking about.

Besids, how do you know something like Azureus isn’t doing the same? Because it’s open source? I would have thought the news last week, that an open source mozilla download had been infected with a trojan months ago, and only just discovered proves that open is as insecure, if not more so (since everyone assumes someone else checked open source, whereas closed people don’t make that assumption) than closed source. Vuze is trying to make the exact same deals as bittorrent inc. you know.

How easy it is to get people to sell out – make a “better” product that calls home and gives them everything they need to know to put you down.