comment below On 2/5/07, Deirdre Straughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Here's the quote I was looking for: > > from http://www.technologyreview.com/Biztech/18111/ > > "The service must also prove to content providers that Joost really is a > "piracy-proof Internet platform," a claim made in one of the company's > press > releases. Unlike with typical peer-to-peer services, *users will not be > able > to upload their own content to the network*, but they will be helping > transfer encrypted content that Joost supplies through the company's > central > servers. The concern is that some users might somehow be able to hack the > Joost network and use it to send unapproved files, or somehow store > approved > content on their personal computer. With the Joost system, users can watch > content on demand, but they aren't allowed to store it on their hard > drives. > Since Joost is currently free, there may be little interest in > circumventing > these measures."
Well that settles it for me! The web has gone crazy with user generated media and Joost is simply an attempt at building an AOL! The network effect is in full effect. If you can't get media in joost out of joost... or get media out of joost into joost. Then it's joost shit. Sorry about the pun. :) This strategy also seems completely 100% at odds with the Firefox platform on which Joost is built, open source which is pretty much in compatible technically, legally, and in theory to what their doing. For christ sak they're taking a web browser for browsing the entire web... a space where everyone has a voice and a say and making it handle only the media of a scant few players. Why don't they just release a version of firefox that only works with AOL content and just call it done. I thought someone said joost was going to support videoblogs and podcasts? Well at least I can commence ignoring Joost. I'm sure some needy bastards will want hollywood content so bad they'll use it.... scratch that... I don't think Joost will even get off the ground. They're no Apple to convince the major players they need to step to the table, digital restrictions is technically, theoretically, and legally at odds with their platform and the world wide web of media and the very computer as a platform has forever shifted people's expectations of what they can and can't do with media. There is no putting the genie back in the bottle... or pandora if you prefer that metaphor. I prefer the cornicopia metaphor... we sit on a vast cornicopia of media, and the last 3 years may only be on of the first early steps in the making of a new renaisanse. A digital renaisanse. So grab a stool, or a log, or a computer chair, and bring your favorite stories and let's all gather around the great big world wide digital campfire and share the things that scare us, and make us laugh, and the things we love and our hopes and dreams for all things great and small. Joost will not be a part of my campfire in any meaningful way. Any other metaphors I forgot to cover? :) -Mike mefeedia.com mmeiser.com/blog So... I'm supposed to use MY bandwidth to help Hollywood distribute its > video and never mine. I don't THINK so. > > > On 2/4/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > Wow, that's extremely interesting Jay. > > > > Quite simply though, i have no interest in Joost unless it's an open > > and interoperable network. RSS is the standard. We need meta networks > > not more proprietary netowrks there's plenty of those, but networks > > that join networks. > > > > -Mike > > > > On 2/1/07, Jay dedman <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <jay.dedman%40gmail.com>> > > wrote: > > > > Joost is the new tv project of the Kazaa/Skype guys. You can get an > > > > invite here in the coming hour or two: > > > > > > > http://gigaom.com/2007/01/31/giveaway-thursday-fon-wi-fi-routers-joost-and-some-babelgum/#comment-577417 > > > > > > for the record.... > > > Daniel Salber, the original mac developer for FireAnt, is now the lead > > > developer for the mac version of Joost. So its good to have someone > > > from the community working on this project. I'm not sure where they > > > are heading....but I know Daniel understands what we are all tryiong > > > to do. > > > > > > jay > > > > > > > > > -- > > > Here I am.... > > > http://jaydedman.com > > > > > > > > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > best regards, > Deirdré Straughan > > www.beginningwithi.com (personal) > www.tvblob.com (work) > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
