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.
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!!
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.