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CHT indirectly invests in on-line music platform ezPeer+

17. September 2006, 18:46 Uhradmin

Chunghwa Telecom (CHT) has indirectly invested US$900,000 in Darling Digital Technology, the operator of Taiwan on-line music platform ezPeer+, for an 11.25% stake, according to CHT.

Starting operations in July of this year, ezPeer+ provides PC-based P2P (peer to peer) on-line music transfers as well as DRM (digital rights management)-compliant music for download onto portable multimedia devices such as MP3 players, Darling indicated, adding that P2P services cost NT$149 a month while the download service costs NT$249 a month. The platform currently has about 500,000 members, Darling noted.

CHT’s indirect investment through a subsidiary in ezPeer+ was motivated by the boost from on-line music services to its ADSL (HiNet) and 3G/3.5G business operations, according to industry sources. CHT’s HiNet subscriber accounts have been integrated with ezPeer+ member accounts, enabling HiNet subscribers to directly use ezPeer+ services, Darling indicated. The integration will be extended to CHT 3G subscribers, Darling added.

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A peer-to-peer (or P2P) computer network relies primarily on the computing power and bandwidth of the participants in the network rather than concentrating it in a relatively low number of servers. P2P networks are typically used for connecting nodes via largely ad hoc connections. Such networks are useful for many purposes. Sharing content files (see file sharing) containing audio, video, data or anything in digital format is very common, and realtime data, such as telephony traffic, is also passed using P2P technology.A pure peer-to-peer network does not have the notion of clients or servers, but only equal peer nodes that simultaneously function as both "clients" and "servers" to the other nodes on the network. This model of network arrangement differs from the client-server model where communication is usually to and from a central server. A typical example for a non peer-to-peer file transfer is an FTP server where the client and server programs are quite distinct, and the clients initiate the download.