gigaom.com — Rumor has it Google is investing up to $100 mil in Chinese P2P startup Xunlei (Thunder). The company is working with TV stations to do P2P downloads of TV content (with ads?) and has signed up partners like Phoenix TV and Hunan Satellite TV. It has over 100 million downloads!
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falloutsyndromeDec 8, 2006
not p2p, g2p, <a class="user" href="http://www.g2p.org">http://www.g2p.org</a>
clemsontigerDec 8, 2006
a little more about this.<a class="user" href="http://www.pacificepoch.com/newsstories/82767_0_5_0_M/">http://www.pacificepoch.com/newsstories/82767_0_5_0_M/</a>
mctkDec 8, 2006
Yeah, but $100 million? That sounds like too much Gängelung for too much money.
solohanDec 8, 2006
hell yeah, that's sick.Somebody needs to sue google. I love a mess.
javabetaDec 8, 2006
Let me tell you what thunder is.It is a download accelerator like flashget initially,and folks like to get it into themselves' computer because it really accelerate the download speed.And It gradually become a default download tool for Chinese Netizen.Then they change the homepage of thunder to a net source search engine where you can find free movies,songs,softwares and all the free sources.Can you image that thunder users can download high definition edition of mission impossible III without pay 1 cent just three month after it debuted in US?
digitally5Dec 8, 2006
So I guess what you are telling everyone here is that censorship depends on the amount of people being censored. People like me, are just saying the truth and you claim that as ignorance? I believe ignorance is what you want people to live in because you think that will keep people safe. I think if anyone has made an ignorant comment here, it surely wasn't i. You want perspective? 5 guys all stuck in a phonebooth. 10 times more crowded than the people in China. One guy lays a fart. I personally would like to know the truth about the assh**e that laid the fart, because the guy on top of me is f**kin' dead!- KSFKAY
digitally5Dec 8, 2006
PLEASE PAY ME $10 BEFORE YOU READ THIS COMMENT!!! :::: The Chinese still have to pay the monthly fees of high speed Internet access. Hundreds to thousands more for the computer they bought. It almost sounds like you are complaining over the fact that people are sharing and communicating with each other on P2P. I can't believe that everyone on this board isn't paying me $10 to read this comment I wrote here on digg.... Fact is, this is an open digital world for communication. For me to be the assh**e and request that everyone should have paid me $10 before reading my comment is absurd. I can also imagine users downloading movies faster and creating a larger audience base for a movie because they didn't have to pay for a hard copy or pay to visit the excellence one gets in a movie theater. This also means that movie makers are going to have to move their little behinds faster if they want to make money from selling hard copies.
fdd2kDec 8, 2006
Tried it and removed immediately.Very sneaky, overall impression is to try to rip off novice users who don'tknow too much about system administrations:(1) adding itself to automatic startup, (2) using your system and bandwidth without telling you what's going on, only network monitor shows busytraffic, even though you are not downloading anything. (3) there is no options to control its behavior.(4) proprietary system with unknown security risk (running as active control of IE).My advice is to stay far away from it.
vanlandwDec 8, 2006
you better be careful what you ask for there "squarehalo" :-P