While most users probably think of BitTorrent clients as software for downloading TV shows and movies illegally, Vuze is all about partnering with networks and independent video producers to sell content.
And while there's not much premium content available right now, Azureus has snagged the right to distribute some interesting programming, including Showtime's Weeds, Dexter, and The L Word. Vuze will also distribute the BBC series Sorted, which is otherwise unavailable in the United States. This should come as good news to anyone hoping that other BBC content such as Life on Mars, or the original version of The IT Crowd might one day be distributed via Vuze or BBC's own online video service.
Azureus has also updated the program's search engine and navigation system.
[via Ars Technica]
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4-06-2007 @ 4:34PM
Eleventeen said...
It'd be great if they'd distribute Top Gear here!
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4-06-2007 @ 4:53PM
Jordan Running said...
Vuze?? And I thought Zudeo was an awkward name.
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4-09-2007 @ 7:33AM
vuze blogger said...
what is important about vuze is that it will level the playing field so that producers and directors around the world to have a space in which they can sell their films to a global market. how many films go to festivals every year that don't land distribution deals? now these filmmmakers have another method for distribution that will harness the power of the internet. youtube sucks because you can't stare at a tiny box in a living room with a group of people and more importantly youtube became valuable on the backs of the producers who created content. vuze both solves the scalability issue of delivering high res. files and the issue of content producers actually having the chance to make revenue from their work. another thing to consider is that is a human rights group uploads a video and then vuze distributes it via bit torrent, no government will be able to stop the flow of that content. now, it is easy for a central server approach such as youtube to censor content. and unlike joost, which is the servant of traditonal media conglomerates (the platform is closed and only wants deals with the MTVs) vuze is open to the world. thanks for reading my ideas about this.
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