HD internet video portal Vuze sees 'unprecedented' growth
by Darren Murph 
posted Aug 9th 2007 at 11:06PM
Azureus announced today that its HD internet video portal, dubbed Vuze, is experiencing "unprecedented growth," and celebrated reaching seven million users in its first six months of operation. Additionally, July saw content downloads "grow well over 100-percent compared to June," and now the company is offering up the complete two seasons of The Office UK (plus its specials) right here in the United States. Better still, the first episode is being made available completely free of charge. So, dear readers, how many of you have dipped into Vuze to check out, say, the vast array of BBC programming?
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Brendan @ Aug 10th 2007 12:02AM
I can't think of anything that makes me more happy then the current bloated state of azureus or "Vuze". This is the a perfect example of open source failing, the fact that utorrent is running on my computer right now at only 12 megs ram while Azureus would be sucking up 10 times as much ram while chewing away at my cpu is very satisfying.
GBot @ Aug 10th 2007 1:36PM
Apparently 7 million people would hesitate to call it a failure...
I'm still using utorrent because yes, azureus is bloated, but it would be nice to not ever see another warning email from my ISP, despite the fact that torrenting Entourage should be legal under "fair use" if you're an HBO subscriber.
Competition is good for the consumer. If I can get high def programming from my ISP (without killing the ratio on my private tracker), then I'll happily say goodbye to my cable bill...
mattydread @ Aug 10th 2007 11:14AM
Right, but is the copy of whatever you're watching with utorrent legal?