Veoh.com

Veoh is a San Diego, California-based company that has created a peercasting network for video clip distribution.

Unlike other video distribution networks such as YouTube, the company distributes video clip content in its original format, rather than transcoding to a lower bandwidth and lower quality version. Due to this technology, a software download is required to download videos, or view some videos in full quality. The website also offers a YouTube-style Adobe Flash video player that can be run from within a web browser.

The company received media attention after Michael Eisner (ex-Disney chairman) joined the board. In April 2006, he was one of the investors (along with AOL Time-Warner) in the $12.5 million second round of financing for Veoh. The company has received further media attention recently by filing a lawsuit against Universal Music Group seeking an advisory judgment from the Court pertaining to allegations that Veoh is a massive copyright infringer. In turn, Universal Music Group sued Veoh in Los Angeles in September 2007, claiming that the service infringes the copyrights of its artists by inducing users to post unlicensed copyrighted material such as music videos.

 source : wikipedia.org