Azureus Decentralizes Bittorrent
Found on Slashdot on Monday, 02 May 2005
While the eXeem project to decentralize Bittorrent remains in open beta, the Azureus Java Bittorrent project has recently released a major update that, among other things offers 'a distributed, decentralised database that can be used to track decentralised torrents. This permits both "trackerless" torrents and the maintenance of swarms where the tracker has become unavailable or where the torrent was removed from the tracker.' It doesn't contain the search functionality of eXeem, but it's also not a beta product and is licensed under the GPL. Could this and compatible clients be the replacement to SuprNova and Lokitorrents, or does the lack of search negate its effectiveness?
Quod erat expectandum: when the entertainment industry began to hunt tracker websites, it was clear that this would bring up a decentralized client. Exeem claims to be great, but is also stuffed with spyware. No thanks. When more users switch to Azureus, tracker sites will become obsolete (leaving the industry in the rain). Now the only thing left to do is to create a Bittorrent trojan which can be used to seed torrents from infected hosts (which kills the "sue the first seeder" idea).