Post by masders on Feb 15, 2024 4:30:01 GMT
A new BitTorrent client called zButterfly appeared this week. Based on the Vuze platform, it positions itself as a searchable catalog of movies of varying quality. The developers of zButterfly believe that a movie-oriented client will be appreciated by users, but it is unlikely that Hollywood will be happy with such news. The movie-oriented torrent client zButtefly has been released to the general public after a closed beta testing that lasted several weeks. Distributed under the GNU GPL license, the open source client is built on the Vuze core, but with some new features that differentiate it from the original client. The main task of the client is to make it easier for users to find movies that are distributed using the BitTorrent protocol.
When the client is launched for the first time, users see a list of the most popular movies in front of them, in addition, they can move through the catalog, sorting it by genre, actors, directors, Andorra Email List country and years of release of the movie. In addition to the catalog, the client has a built-in movie search engine. Users can also sort search results by year of release, genres, or, for example, IMDb rating. In total, at the moment, the client operates a database of 8,200 films, but Philip Lamb - marketing director of zButterfly, says that the catalog will expand. After the user has selected the movie he liked, he can go to the download page where the detailed information about the movie is provided. Various video formats, names of actors and their roles, IMDb-rating of the film, trailer and recommendations for choosing a similar film available in the catalog. Most of this information is taken from the IMDb site.
All distributions do not depend on . torrent files - magnet links are used instead. Although there are small doubts about the future of the client: whether a community of BitTorrent users will be formed who will use such a client. Also, the MPAA definitely doesn't share the developers' ideas. Philip Lamb agrees with these remarks, but believes that they do nothing wrong. "Problems with the film industry are inevitable," says Lamb. "But legally, we are a search engine. We don't copy content to our servers, we don't support a torrent tracker, we're just a mirror of the BitTorrent network. A mirror decorated with a movie catalog." "All the films in our catalog were found by automatic search bots. Each owner of the rights to a film can request that it be removed, but this does not guarantee that the same film will not be added to our database in the future," says Lamb, adding that their search engines , as well as Google can be used to search for torrent files. "By law, we are no different from Google.
When the client is launched for the first time, users see a list of the most popular movies in front of them, in addition, they can move through the catalog, sorting it by genre, actors, directors, Andorra Email List country and years of release of the movie. In addition to the catalog, the client has a built-in movie search engine. Users can also sort search results by year of release, genres, or, for example, IMDb rating. In total, at the moment, the client operates a database of 8,200 films, but Philip Lamb - marketing director of zButterfly, says that the catalog will expand. After the user has selected the movie he liked, he can go to the download page where the detailed information about the movie is provided. Various video formats, names of actors and their roles, IMDb-rating of the film, trailer and recommendations for choosing a similar film available in the catalog. Most of this information is taken from the IMDb site.
All distributions do not depend on . torrent files - magnet links are used instead. Although there are small doubts about the future of the client: whether a community of BitTorrent users will be formed who will use such a client. Also, the MPAA definitely doesn't share the developers' ideas. Philip Lamb agrees with these remarks, but believes that they do nothing wrong. "Problems with the film industry are inevitable," says Lamb. "But legally, we are a search engine. We don't copy content to our servers, we don't support a torrent tracker, we're just a mirror of the BitTorrent network. A mirror decorated with a movie catalog." "All the films in our catalog were found by automatic search bots. Each owner of the rights to a film can request that it be removed, but this does not guarantee that the same film will not be added to our database in the future," says Lamb, adding that their search engines , as well as Google can be used to search for torrent files. "By law, we are no different from Google.