Azureus is officially dead

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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.

Don't think it is going to be as popular as it was before. Version 3 was getting bloated everyday, and it actually became very slow even on systems with lots of memory.

Source : Azureus is Dead, Vuze Goes Social | TorrentFreak

 

[ComradE_BeaN]

.. my fav BT client.

ill use it as long as possible.

 

[HailStonE]

I'll miss Azureus.... Good things never last...

 

[SidhuScorpion]

my first P2P client.

 

[greenhorn]

hah, bloated POS is dead

 

[Spacescreamer]

^^ My Sentiments Exactly ..

 

[6pack]

^^ +1 from me

 

[cyberjunkie]

:ashamed: +1 me too!

 

[-Anish-]

yeah azureus was making hay in its early days .. when it came to fame it lost its roads due to showoffs .. no wonder its dead now

 

[thetoxicmind]

Guys 'Azureus' is just called 'Vuze' now..

It's literally the same client but the latter has a few updates and a new look..

Vuze(Azureus) still rocks !

hah, bloated POS is dead

Bloated or not! It still did its job well...

More livelier than uTorrent !

 

[Checksum]

Azureus was good well before bitcomet or utorrent came into the picture. Will always remain one of the most configurable clients of all time.

 

[cool_cat]

oh bad !

 

[Justinâ„¢]

I am using Vuze for more than a year now. The client is same except the new name and the look. I am downloading something and it is giving me 107kBps as I write this. Although speed is torrent seed dependent, but still the client is doing the job well!!

 

[main_trouble]

it is something like what happened to ethereal->wireshark

 

[Aman27deep]

I never used it,

good thing there only one king now, mewtorrent!! (utorrent) hahahaaa

 

[Anish]

uTorrent rulezzz!

 

[Gannu]

^^^ +1 sire;

 

[Udit]

^^^ +1 for the utorrent rulez movement

 

[greenhorn]

even when µ was not around , azureus was still bloated. I used to use Bitcomet back then, then i saw µ , <100k, and was hooked

 

[biosbhai]

Simplicity FTW!

Crap bloatware which was made on Java was always a POS compared to uTorrent or BitTornado.

But, it had a "higher kind" of encryption which was used to counter ISP's who shaped BT traffic.

I used to be on an ISP which shaped BT traffic pretty hard, even with standard encryption, and Azureus seemed to be slightly better with this enhanced encryption enabled.