video distribution founded 2006 headquarters 4 w. 4th avenue suite 401 san mateo california 94402 usa key people gilles bianrosa olivier chalouhi chris thun milan parikh products vuze formerly azureus website www.vuze.com vuze inc. formerly azureus inc. is a company formed by some of the core developers of the open source bittorrent client azureus . based in san mateo california it bills itself as the company behind azureus . 1 in january 2007 the company launched an azureus powered open entertainment platform called vuze formerly zudeo which is intended to enable content providers to easily distribute their content over the internet . 1 the company claimed to have distribution deals with 12 television film and media companies 2 and now seems to have deals with over 100 content providers around the world . vuze attracts and features content from global television networks bbc showtime pbs a & e national geographic channel & more production studios and content creators . vuze also provides viewers with content that can be viewed on a computer monitor or connected tv . in november 2007 vuze filed a petition with the u.s. federal communications commission to restrict internet traffic throttling by internet service providers isps . vuze filed its petition for rulemaking to urge the fcc to adopt regulations limiting internet traffic throttling a practice by which isps block or slow the speed at which internet content including video files can be uploaded or downloaded . 3 in december 2007 vuze secured 20 million in its c round of funding . 4 this round was led by new enterprise associates nea with existing investors redpoint ventures greycoft partners bv capital and jarl mohn participating . as a result of the investment tivo co founder and former ceo mike ramsay joined the vuze board of directors . in december 2006 the bbc announced that hundreds of episodes of its programs will be made available through vuze restricted by drm . 5 references edit a b azureus next generation video distribution platform goes live pdf press release . azureus . december 4 2006 . retrieved december 18 2006 . calore michael december 4 2006 . azureus hd vids trump youtube . wired news . retrieved december 19 2006 . video distributor wants fcc to stop isp traffic throttling washington post november 18 2007 retrieved on january 4 2008 . vuze inc. secures 20 million in new round of funding led by top tier investors vuze december 19 2007 retrieved on january 4 2008 . bbc moves to file sharing sites . bbc news . december 20 2006 . retrieved december 20 2006 . external links edit official website v t e bittorrent companies bittorrent inc. vuze inc. people eric klinker bram cohen ashwin navin ross cohen technology broadcatching distributed hash tables dna index peer exchange local peer discovery protocol encryption super seeding tracker torrent file tp glossary clients comparison usage share bittorrent original client bitcomet bitspirit bittornado deluge frostwire ktorrent libtorrent library limewire miro mldonkey qbittorrent rtorrent shareaza tixati transmission tribler torrent vuze formerly azureus xunlei tracker software comparison opentracker peertracker torrentpier xbt tracker open trackers openbittorrent search engines comparison btdigg burnbit demonoid isohunt mininova rarbg t411 the pirate bay what.cd yourbittorrent defunct websites btjunkie d2 eztv kickasstorrents lokitorrent oink s pink palace suprnova.org torrentspy torrentz youtorrent related topics axxo bittorrent open source license glossary of bittorrent terms popcorn time slyck.com torrentfreak retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title vuze inc. & oldid 707389258 categories free software companiescompanies based in san mateo californiacompanies established in 2006entertainment companies of the united statesinternet companies of the united statessoftware companies of the united stateshidden categories use mdy dates from june 2014 navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages espa ol edit links this page was last modified on 28 february 2016 at 16 04 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view