I had to find the following page for a friend today, which is a HOWTO for switching Azureus from the new "Vuze" layout to the old "Classic" layout
Vuze:
There's nothing necessarily bad about the Vuze layout. It provides easily searchable content and a way to subscribe and publish to channels which you would ordinarily have to do manually (a boon for noobies).
But for some reason I can't seem to shake the feelings of evil from it. Namely the fact that Azureus no longer does what it was originally designed to do (download torrents) but seems to be providing a whole platform for delivering first rate value added media content to end users.
The old bait and switch (well, not really switch as there is still a way to get back).
I also can't shake the feeling that this "platform" will soon start to charge money for its use, and that those who have been suckered into either publishing or subscribing to the channels (i.e. have put a lot of effort in) will soon have no choice but to pay the cost.
This model sounds kinda familiar
And familiar again
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