Azureus, the makers of the popular Bittorrent client of the same name, is rolling out a high-definition video service called Zudeo. Users of the service can upload, rate and comment on videos, just like the YouTube video sharing site. However, unlike YouTube, high-definition videos can be shared and there is no limit to the size or duration of the videos.

Users must download the 4.4 MB Aureus 3.0 Bittorrent client before they can view the videos and audio clips on the beta Zudeo website. Most of the clips are in regular or low definition, but several HD clips are denoted with a blue HD logo in the bottom right corner of the thumbnail.

Many people will want to compare Zudeo to YouTube, but it will be a while before it can compete effectively with its much bigger service. While some of the functionality is similar like the commenting, uploading and ranking of videos, the rest of the interface is quite crude.

http://www.tgdaily.com/2006/12/05/zudeo_hd_youtube/

A day after BitTorrent grabbed $20 million in financing, open-source BitTorrent client Azureus reeled in $12 million for its second finance round. Named after the poisonous tree frog that serves as the company logo, founder Gilles Bian Rosa announced back in July he planned to build a commercial company around the three year old application, among the most popular BitTorrent clients. The financing round was led by Redpoint Ventures. Other investors include Greycroft Partners, CNET Chaiman Jarl Mohn, and BV Capital who seeded the company’s initial round this past summer. Rosa serves as CEO of the company, which is headquartered in Redwood City, CA.

Before Bram Cohen convinced Hollywood that he would work his BitTorrent technology to their favor, venture capital steered clear of peer-to-peer technology as they proved to be a magnet for litigation. Now that this technology has Hollywood’s blessing (for now) the VCs are going after those BitTorrent clients who can best compete with Cohen’s company for what they hope will be a piece of a very lucrative Net distribution business.

Having been an Optimum customer for 5+ years, my recommendation is that nowadays you should NOT order Optimum Online. Why? Because it is EXTREMELY SLOW.

Once upon a time, I installed Azureus (bittorrent) and blazed uploads and downloads at 200 kB/s. Then one day everything stopped working. Azureus stopped working, and my web browser stopped working.

I thought it was my router, so I tried a new one. I tried a direct connection. I tried different bittorrent clients, and different web browsers. I came to dslreports and then I read about the 20 kB/s bandwidth throttling. That describes what I’m seeing now.

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What’s new in Azureus 2.5.0.0

1.1 Send to Friend

A wizard to simplify sending a link to content to a friend or to embed in a web page (e.g. a blog).

1.2 Auto upload speed

This feature controls your upload speed based on the latency of your internet connection as gauged by pinging other members of the Distributed Database.

1.3 Other new features

• OSX: Open .torrent files into Azureus via Finder/Desktop/etc.

• ‘Do not download’ files handled more consistently with respect to download completion.

• Renaming of a download directories.

• Moving of data files on torrent removal from Azureus.

• Signed updates and plugins for improved security.

• Interface improvements - more information: date added, idle times, new info view, file piece view; more per-torrent options.

• Debug information generator.

• More in the changelog.

1.4 Bug fixes and performance improvements

Notable fixes:

* LAN Peer Finder retains peers more effectively; explicit LAN peer identification.
* Reduced CPU usage when connected to large numbers of peers.
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2. Full ChangeLog

http://azureus.sourceforge.net/changelog.php?version=2.5.0.0

Just when you thought you’d seen everything P2P is useful for. A recently discovered Internet worm, “Nugache-A” is spreading widely via AIM as ell as MSN Messenger.

In and of themselves, new internet worms pop up too frequently to be news anymore. What is significant about this worm is the way in which it can be remotely controlled, via P2P.

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Azureus, the ever popular Open Source BitTorrent client, is due to announce the addition of a “content layer” to the software at OnHollywood 2006.

OnHollywood sells itself as “where cutting edge technology from the backstreets of Silicon Valley meets Hollywood’s digital media revolution.” It is a two and a half day event that provides, “an open environment where top digital entertainment and media entrepreneurs meet the big-time studio, telco and consumer electrics executives.”

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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 was started at Sourceforge.net mostly to experiment with the Standard Widget Toolkit from Eclipse, in June 2003. It is possibly the most popular of all BitTorrent clients.

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