Viacom Turns to Joost, Spurns YouTube

Posted by Zonk on Tuesday February 20, 2007 @03:55AM from the google-has-lost-please-turn-to-page-57 dept.

Vincenzo writes "Viacom has signed a deal with Joost that will see content from MTVI, Comedy Central, and CBS distributed on the new P2P distribution service. The move comes just two weeks after demanding YouTube pull over 100,000 videos offline. 'Joost's promise to protect their copyrights was a major factor in Viacom's decision, and also a stumbling block in their discussions with YouTube/Google. At the moment is it quite easy to download and store video content from YouTube, but no such exploit for Joost is known to exist.' It's also a 'secure' distribution medium in the eyes of many in the entertainment industry, since users can't upload content themselves.'"

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Joost is nothing and stupid. by zymano · 2007-02-20 04:00 · Score: -1, Troll

The guys who created the overrated p2p kazaa and skype came up with joost.

It will fail. Watch the media suck their cock and give them good pub though.
FailzorLs by Anonymous Coward · 2007-02-20 06:53 · Score: -1, Troll

much aOs Windows