Editing EXeem (section)

== Criticism of eXeem ==
[[File:Seacay exeem linuxbin.jpg|thumb|250px|right|"Seacay", the unofficial Linux eXeem client]]

Criticism of eXeem arose soon after it debuted and included:
* eXeem's for-profit operating model, including support through advertising (much akin to [[Kazaa]]) and a public beta that included HTML ads supported by Cydoor, which is widely considered to be spyware.<ref>[http://p2pnet.net/story/3641 P2PNet] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060509233114/http://p2pnet.net/story/3641 |date=9 May 2006 }}, retrieved 2 May 2006</ref> Ads-free versions called ''eXeem Lite''[https://web.archive.org/web/20151222085949/http://www.exlite.pl/] and ''BIT eXeem'' were subsequently released, and eXeem later replaced Cydoor with WhenU from version 0.21 onward.
* [[Closed source]] code development, in contrast with the [[open-source model]] followed by the most popular [[BitTorrent (protocol)|BitTorrent]] software, on which eXeem is based.
* No initial [[Linux]] or [[macOS|Macintosh]] versions, with no ability to allow third parties to [[Porting|port]] the code beyond [[Microsoft Windows|Windows]] (as eXeem is closed source).
* Seacay was released as a Linux Client for the eXeem network when eXeem version 0.21 was released (see screenshot, right )