Azureus is Dead, Vuze Goes Social

[zatoicchi]

After 5 years, the popular BitTorrent client Azureus is no more. The Vuze team has officially abandoned the Azureus name and the new “social” BitTorrent client is now completely integrated into the Vuze content distribution platform.

azureus deadThe first version of the Java based BitTorrent client Azureus was released in June 2003, and soon became popular among the early adopters of BitTorrent. Over the years, Azureus turned into one of the most feature-rich clients, backed by a dedicated team of developers and an active community.

Things changed in 2007 when Azureus launched the content distribution platform it called ‘Vuze’, backed up by a total of $34 million venture capital. For a while, they kept releasing a no-Vuze version of Azureus, but Vuze CEO, Gilles BianRosa told TorrentFreak that this only caused confusion among


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[Aurion]

No Need for an Az nor Fuze coz we got Faze !! :klatsch_3:

[anon]

people will still call it azureus, because vuze doesn't want them to. :biggrin:

[zatoicchi]

No Need for an Az nor Fuze coz we got Faze

yep, faze mod will live on. new generation has come and will stay

[sbrugby]

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Azureus was once a great client but it changed to sucks
And I think, sooner or later, most PT will ban Azureus client

[Ostracized]

http://www.sb-innovation.de/showthread.php?threadid=3935

dupe thread

On topic, as long as there is the classic UI option, the only question whether to or not to ban Vuze will be the commercionalism. But still, its a great client for all platforms and i dont think there will be any banning

[anon]

classic ui all the way...... :top:

i find the "simple" one actually more difficult to use and harder to learn :eek13: