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Joost giving up P2P

article published on 18 December, 2008

P2P video service Joost has decided to shift away from P2P and head towards Flash. The company will give up their efforts developing the P2P client that has so far defined Joost. Joost, which was considered one of the most innovative start-ups in early 2007 when the beta was released, has gone through some hard times lately. Ultimately the P2P client, with its obvious benefits, had more ... [ read the full article ]

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oappi
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_ 		18. December 2008 @ 08:38 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
yet another badly markeded thing that was a good product. They got all kinds of good sponsors, but forgot to get good content. Did they thought that ppl wanted to watch commercials?
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_ 		20. December 2008 @ 00:07 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
p2p is uncontrollable and with how CP works and or how things are licensed imposable to properly share profits.


For online distro you need a contract based on shareing a percentage of profit with the rights holder and most importantly be able to self price the the stuff you are distributing to create a real free market the rights holders wont care since they are getting a cut.
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joost needs to just give up period. they have a ton of media, 95% of which sucks ass. On top of that its really hard to navigate.

use fancast, or hulu. they are far superior
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