Tuesday, May 03, 2005

Slashdot | Azureus Decentralizes Bittorrent

Slashdot | Azureus Decentralizes Bittorrent: "e"

Azureus Decentralizes Bittorrent
The Internet
Networking
Posted by timothy on Tuesday May 03, @06:20AM
from the infinite-onion-rings dept.
BobPaul writes "While the eXeem project to decentralize Bittorrent remains in open beta, the Azureus Java Bittorrent project has recently released a major update that, among other things offers 'a distributed, decentralised database that can be used to track decentralised torrents. This permits both "trackerless" torrents and the maintenance of swarms where the tracker has become unavailable or where the torrent was removed from the tracker.' It doesn't contain the search functionality of eXeem, but it's also not a beta product and is licensed under the GPL. Could this and compatible clients be the replacement to SuprNova and Lokitorrents, or does the lack of search negate its effectiveness?"

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