zSlide introduces podmailing.com as a means to distribute legitimate videos using Peer-To-Peer
zSlide introduces podmailing.com as a means to distribute legitimate videos using Peer-To-Peer.
podmailing.com is successfully used by French majority party UMP for political campaign and by video podcasters.
[ClickPress, Wed Sep 13 2006] zSlide, a privately held company based in France, today announced that their podmailing.com Peer-To-Peer service is used to distribute legitimate videos over the Internet.
Podmailer was introduced in July 2006 as a simple software to send & receive Peer-To-Peer e-mail attachments of any size for free. Now zSlide uses its Peer-To-Peer content delivery service to reach thousands of Internet users.
podmailing.com is already distributing high-quality videos for UMP, the French political majority party and its leader, Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy. This first experience gathered an audience of thousands of viewers in less than 24 hours – many of which had never tried Peer-To-Peer before.
“The recently voted French copyright bill DADVSI did not stop us from innovating in Peer-To-Peer, on the contrary.” says Louis Choquel, CEO of zSlide. The DADVSI bill fuelled many debates in France and abroad and was finally passed with support from the ruling party UMP.
zSlide’s joint Peer-To-Peer experiment with UMP now clearly states the difference between legitimate Peer-To-Peer and illegal file sharing. Louis Choquel insists: “All in all, the French DADVSI law does not condemn Peer-to-Peer technologies as such. With podmailing.com, zSlide now provides legal P2P products and services which deliver real value to our users”.
Eric Walter, Internet services manager at UMP, adds: “This groundbreaking operation gives UMP the occasion to dramatically extend its Internet audience thanks to the advantages of the Peer-to-Peer technology and also proves, if needed, the dynamism of French companies in the field of new technologies and digital media on the Internet”.
Download the Press Release here (PDF):
http://media.podmailing.com/PR-EN-2006-09-13-podmailing-UMP.pdf
Other content is distributed using podmailing.com :
In addition to UMP, podmailing.com early beta-test clients include:
- www.streetsmartcoolcat.com : Podcast show about street cultures and digital lifestyle, produced by zSlide. SSCC features interviews of artists and sportsmen as well as short films, such as episode 6: the story of Rosa, the sexiest skateboard of this era!
- www.one4one.tv : International video community website dedicated to the webcast of paintball tournament videos. Using different webcast techniques such as streaming and progressive video download, one4one.tv has recently added Peer-to-Peer technology for the delivery of its paintball videos, thanks to a partnership with zSlide and podmailing.com. The movies on one4one.tv are viewed over 500 000 times every year and the site is visited by paintball fans from 110 different countries from across the globe.
Technical information :
The UMP videos are available for download in various formats supported by multimedia players on Mac and PC: Windows Media(tm), QuickTime(tm) in high quality; specific versions for portable video players are provided too. The podmailing.com Peer-to-Peer platform is compatible with the standard “BitTorrent mainline” protocol.
About podmailing.com
The podmailing.com website provides an e-mail attachment service based on Peer-To-Peer. Released in beta version in July 2006, this e-mail attachment service allows users to send and receive large files (in excess of 1 gigabyte), thanks to the simple Podmailer software.
About zSlide™
zSlide is a French software company, based in Paris, which has been pioneering online experiences and technologies for 5 years. zSlide has 25 employees, and collaborates with major media groups and international telcos: zSlidePlayer is currently used to power the most advanced content services on the Internet, including Video on Demand, Online Music Stores, and Online Games.
zSlide was granted in 2001 the "innovative company" distinction awarded by ANVAR (National Agency for Research Valorization). zSlide's technical expertise comprises Peer-to-Peer technology, digital media distribution, content synchronization on portable media players, 3G phones, as well as development for game consoles.
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