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Startup Marries Flash Video with P2P

Posted on September 14, 2008

PPLive, a Singapore start-up that has a P2P video platform for distributing television in Asia has developed a way to accelerate and distribute Flash videos over peer-to-peer networks. The application called PPVA, sits in your task bar and when it detects a Flash video stream, it tries to find folks using the PPVA network who may have cached the same clip. This is good for solving the problems with very-popular files, since there is a likelihood that many more people would have watched the clip.While this seems like a good idea, the guys at NewTeeVee who uncovered the story are being cautious,...

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