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Pando lets you send your home videos, giant presentations and entire folders of original quality photos to anyone with an email address.

Pando is free software that lets you send and receive files and folders of any size with your existing email account.   * Bypasses email attachment limits   * Opens .pando attachments emailed to you   * Accelerates downloads of huge files and folders   * Uses your existing email address   * Drag, drop and send entire folders   * Sends small .pando attachments, never clogs your inbox   * Simply the easiest way to email large files

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Here the two top FAQs:

Is Pando some P2P thing?

Yes, and we're proud of it. In fact, we think we've made peer to peer better and more useful. We'll use this space to explain what we are #8212; but let's start with what we're not.

Pando is not a directory where you post the contents of your hard drive for everyone to see. Pando's also not a quot;spacequot; that you need to keep updated with witty posts, funny avatars, and the latest hottest music tracks for your friends to stream. Pando is especially not a network to swap digital music and movies that you don't have the rights to share with others. (Pando does not condone copyright infringement.)

Now let's talk about what Pando is, exactly how it uses P2P technology and how this affects you.

The Pando application you're using today is designed to be a close cousin to email. Instead of a central server, Pando uses a distributed network #8212; proven to be extremely efficient #8212; to allow people to transport much larger files than their email programs can bear. Got a gig of spring break videos to send around to your pals? Good luck attaching that to an email. Pando's pièce de résistance compared to other P2P networks is that it lets you send (or quot;pushquot;) that beach video to your friends like an email instead of having to post it somewhere and make your friends come there to quot;pullquot; it down. (You can also push a whole folder of files or even a folder full of folders.) And of course this is all private and secure, because we encrypt it. Your recipient gets your quotando package,quot; sees what's in it and how big it is, and accepts it or rejects it. And their replies go right to your email account.

Pando uses distributed (or P2P) technology to take a large file like your video and break it up into little bits. Dealing with lots of tiny bits that can zip around a network is simply more efficient than trying to move one whopper of a file on and off some central server. Our network's smart enough to distribute those bits in the fastest way possible to your intended recipients' machines.

Where do the files I send go?

Via a secure, end-to-end 128-bit encrypted transfer, your files are uploaded to our storage proxies (Pando servers), and an email is sent to your specified email recipients. As soon as they open the #8220;.pando#8221; files attached to the emails they get, the files are transferred to your recipients' computers simultaneously from your own computer and our storage proxies. No one, including us, has access to your encrypted files except for you and your intended email recipients. IMPORTANT NOTE: As with any email attachment, if your recipients forward packages to their friends, they will also be able to download your files. Please keep this in mind when emailing private files.

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