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Reminder: Azureus Runs on OS X, too
Hackaday today discusses the twin evils of the RIAA and the MPAA, focusing on the way they are attempting to undermine P2P networks on the Internet by targeting tracker sites that host the .torrent files. The good news: there's something called distributed tracking that means you no longer have to depend on a tracker site to host your .torrent file, and Azureus supports the protocol. Also, java-based Azureus runs on Mac OS X.Now, for all of you who are growing uncomfortable in your tweed jackets, mumbling to yourselves and coughing dusky smoke from your pipe, about to protest, "But, C.K., you've gone too far! This is illegal and wrong!," I ask that you pay attention to one really good thing that this distributed tracking means for law-abiding citizens. As Eliot at Hackaday points out, "I think this system will be great for people publishing their original works since they wont have to provide lots of bandwidth or rely on someones flakey tracker." So now if your podcast or vlog suddenly gets Slash-dotted or just becomes very popular you can use bittorrent sans tracker to eliminate some of the bandwidth costs.
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Hadley Stern said 4:19PM on 6-16-2005
Very cool, so how does integration with a website (say a podcast) work? Do you just embed a link to a bit-torrent file?
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djones said 4:19PM on 6-16-2005
Careful with Azuerus on OS X. It's Java based and not memory friendly at all. Running for 6-8 hours on Tiger and it gets up to 200MB of real memory, and another 30-50MB for the Azuerus process manager.
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mikel egurra said 4:19PM on 6-16-2005
some of us also use torrent downloads to get the latest linux distros. nothing against the law...
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oliver said 4:19PM on 6-16-2005
Azureus does make a pretty big memory footprint on OS X, but the nice thing is that as long as you have a lot of RAM (768mb +) then you can leave it running and still use the system for other tasks. OTOH, those unfortunate souls running XP find their system slows to a near unusable pace with Azureus running in the background.
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Justin said 4:19PM on 6-16-2005
Tomato is still the best BT client on the Mac...
http://sarwat.net/bittorrent/
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Paul Stamatiou said 2:00AM on 10-10-2005
I figure these are very relevant... two articles I had written on setting up and configuring Azureus, as well as getting some plugins running.
http://paulstamatiou.com/2005/10/02/how-to-configure-azureus/
http://paulstamatiou.com/2005/10/09/part-2-azureus-optimization-and-plugins/
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