14 DAY TRIAL // The ZIM Corporation, an Internet TV and mobile entertainment service provider, has launched ZIMTV.mobi, a peer-to-peer TV platform that allows content owners to distribute ZIMTV directly to mobile phones. The fact that this new service offered by them uses a P2P technology will permit the cut-down of streaming bandwidth price to 1 $ per hour or even less, due to the way the peer to peer network works: when the number of users that are actually watching the TV content is increasing, the programs will load faster because there will be more sources to gather data from, this way using the data already sent to the user network and not being necessary to stream it again to a new user.
Dr. Michael Cowpland, the president and CEO of ZIM, has said that they are "excited at the opportunity to provide broadcasters worldwide with a platform to distribute their video content on the Internet and on mobile phones. ZIMTV offers content providers an attractive opportunity to create new revenues and new customers".
Also, Cowpland has declared that ZIM believes that the P2P technology is going "to be a major breakthrough enabling global channels to be funded by advertising similar to traditional broadcast TV. There has been a huge surge in the demand for video and TV content on the Internet recently on sites such as MySpace.com and YouTube.com. Unlike these and other Internet streaming platforms, ZIMTV is based on P2P technology and offers an "always on" functionality to simulate the feeling of viewing traditional TV".
ZIMTV.mobi will not be another reason for some copyright infringement law suits because the company has already thought of that and has included digital rights management software that will not permit the end-user to make any pirated copies of the TV content to sell it and distribute it through illegal sell channels. This solution will work because the users are not really downloading the content, but instead the content is being streamed to them using the P2P network.