Azureus
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Azureus logo
Template:Infobox Software Azureus is a Java based BitTorrent client, with support for I2P and Tor anonymous communication protocols. It currently supports Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and Unix. Azureus is also the Latin word for azure, a sky-blue colour.
The Azureus BitTorrent Client allows the user to download multiple files in a single graphical user interface (GUI). The program also allows detailed options, information and configuration. While downloading a torrent, you can see:
- which files you've downloaded
- what percentage of each file and piece you still need, the piece number and availability
- who you are downloading from, their download and upload speeds, their IP, their port, their client and more options if you are Super-Seeding
- download and upload speed, time remaining, file and tracker information.
Azureus allows users to specify maximum upload and download speeds and is configurable like many other clients. Azureus also allows users to open some files that have been completed before the entire torrent from within the program. Additionally, Azureus can serve as its own tracker (the server which watches over the Bittorrent swarm), allowing users to share their own files with others without uploading it to any site. Azureus functionality can be expanded via various plugins, one of the more popular being Country Locator.
The Blue Poison Dart Frog (Dendrobates azureus) is shown on the Azureus webpage, as well as within the program's start-up splash screen, no doubt lending its name to the project.
The latest versions of Azureus introduce the Distributed Database function, which is an expansion of the BitTorrent protocol, making it more independent from trackers. This allows for a torrent where the original tracker is down or very slow to get peer data (and eventually download the files) from other peers that are using Azureus. The downside to this is private trackers where membership is required that don't want non-members downloading their torrents, and are required to alter their torrents so the Azureus client knows not to share peer information about that swarm. Some critics also say that this is simply 'reinventing the wheel,' refering to earlier peer-to-peer protocols and programs which Bittorrent was praised for filling in the weaknesses of. Others see it as an evolution of the Bittorrent protocols.
See also
- Anonymous P2P
- List of BitTorrent clients
- Comparison of BitTorrent clients
- List of open-source software packages
- Super seeding
- Distributed hash table
- P2P-Filesharing
External links
- Azureus SourceForge site (http://azureus.sourceforge.net/)
- Azureus wiki (http://azureus.aelitis.com/wiki/)da:Azureus
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