Vuze, the popular Java-based BitTorrent client formerly known as Azureus has now released a portable version, but for a price, $9.99 USD to be exact.
The version can be carried around on a flash drive or external HDD and the decision to sell the version was based a recent survey of Vuze users that showed 72 percent of users own a portable drive.
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Originally posted by nonoitall: Vuze has been going downhill ever since it started to be "Vuze" and stopped being Azureus, IMO.
Agreed, but Vuze in Advanced Mode isn't bad. It's the same as it used to be, pretty much.
Anyway, what is the benefit of this new portable edition? I don't get it. Is the purpose so I can boot to my flash drive into some obscure OS and run Vuze so I can share files from someone else's machine? I'm sure I'm missing something here. Or are they saying it works on portable devices, like cell phones?
HAHAHA what they are say is " We here at Vuze are idiots and since Azureus was once a great product we go to improve on it by trying to charge you for a P2P program" LOL Utorrent for the win!
Am I missing something or is there nothing stopping you installing real Vuze and downloading the pay version?
Company's that make software where the key consumer is pirates need to think more about launching pay versions (look at limewire pro).
Originally posted by keith1993: Am I missing something or is there nothing stopping you installing real Vuze and downloading the pay version?
Company's that make software where the key consumer is pirates need to think more about launching pay versions (look at limewire pro).
LOL, good point. On the other hand, there are probably the honest pirates who will feel a moral obligation to buy anything their beloved enabler puts out.
