The popular bittorrent client Azureus received funding by BV Capital, a company that previously supported del.icio.us and peerflix.
Azureus is currently implementing a “content layer” where commercial downloads will start to appear. Users will be able to search for certain keywords, or browse through the available content by tags.
Azureus is downloaded almost 2million times every month, and it has a strong and dedicated community. This spring they received an award for “most popular open-source software” at the first annual SourceForge.net Community Choice Awards. However, it is unclear how the public will respond to the paid content that will start to appear in Azureus.
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If it stays open source there will be a version without the pay crap.
And frankly depending on how the implement it it may not be an issue.
hopefully… it would suck to watch a nice open source prog go closed and get crappy..
yah uTorrent here I come?