Azureus 3.0 BETA Guide and Tutorial

Azureus has added a new content and video sharing format to it's ever popular BitTorrent client server in the new BETA version it recently released.

It incorporates it's new video sharing site Zudeo.com directly into the new user interface, allowing users to browse, publish, download, and even rate content all directly from the BitTorrent client server itself.

According to Techcrunch, "Azureus said that they are trying to 'centralize and go viral,'" and "...each listing will have a user rating and an embed code called Azureus Magnet so that users can share the content on other sites."

The article furthers:

"Media companies are embracing digital media distribution,” said Jarl Mohn, current chairman of the board of CNET Networks and an Azureus board member, in a release sent to TechCrunch on Friday. “Zudeo provides a very effective and secure P2P platform to distribute content to their audience.”

"Today, content creators and publishers can use Zudeo to freely promote and distribute their digital creations, with no limitation in length or video quality,” BianRosa said. “Furthermore, they can use our social networking tools to expose their content throughout the web, including blogs and social networks. Similarly, movie, games, and music fans can access a growing catalog of high resolution media content and share it with their friends easily."

The focus of the site will be on high quality DVD and HD content, and will soon be partnering with 20 major TV and film studios to provide additional free programming for downloading.

Exactly what type of content will be offered at and at what price is as yet unclear but, it marks another bold step in the efforts of file-sharing applications to go "legit" and find a viable business model to capitalize on digital video distribution.

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With more than 1.5 million Azureus users connected on average at any given moment, the potential for this new content fro mat is tremendous.