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Vuze (formerly Azureus) is a Java-based BitTorrent client, with support for I2P and Tor anonymous communication protocols. In 2003, the core developers of Azureus formed a company called Vuze, Inc. (formerly Azureus, Inc.)

The program's logo is the Blue Poison Dart Frog (Dendrobates azureus). The Azureus name was given to the project by co-creator Tyler Pitchford, who uses the Latin names of poison dart frogs as codenames for his development projects.

Azureus was first released in June 2003 at SourceForge.net, mostly to experiment with the Standard Widget Toolkit from Eclipse. It is now one of the most popular BitTorrent clients. Released under the GNU General Public License, Azureus is free software.

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High CPU load
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Does'nt recognize ports which other clients easily do
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Pros
  • Small CPU and memory footprint.
  • Totally free with no ads
  • Let you select which files inside a torrent to download
Cons
  • There is no Linux version
  • Bandwidth choke when not configured properly
  • Hard to use on public computers.
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  • Freeware, x64 native available and lightweight.
Cons
  • lacking features
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BitTorrent

MSRP  $0.00    Released  --
Pros
  • Scheduling feature very helpful
Cons
  • Can't download illegal stuff anymore without paying for an upgrade.
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Comments

1.  avatar GT-D said:

I have used this a bunch, but really only on my linux machines. I find its far to bloated being on the java platform... uTorrent is far better if you are using windows.
Feb 01, 2008 3:35pm
2.  avatar Howlsthunder said:

Azureus has been the way to go for me on my Mac so far.
Apr 16, 2008 4:34pm
3.  avatar dialupinternetuser said:

Talk about Bloated, Azuerus sucks.
Jul 01, 2008 11:49am
4.  avatar GT-D said:

I'd say as far as a torrent client built on Java they did a great job - but Java isn't exactly optimal for that kinda thing.
Aug 15, 2008 3:08pm
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October 3, 2008
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Jan

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September 9, 2008
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December 18, 2008
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fractalhorizon

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January 4, 2009
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  • Java based (easily portable to any platform that suports Java)

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