Maybe Joost is the next YouTube?
Not so fast said the Joost-ers, apparently we forgot to take into account how Joost could boost its content by playing off of the widespread hatred of YouTube. Especially after Google has taken such a snobby attitude towards the entertainment industry:
The agreement comes two weeks after Viacom demanded that YouTube, the video-sharing site owned by Google Inc., remove 100,000 clips that were posted without permission. Viacom will provide shows from MTV and BET Networks and feature films from Paramount to Joost, which is run by the same duo who started the Skype Internet calling service and the Kazaa music-sharing site.
``The Joost platform is in essence a closed system,’’ said Allen Weiner, an analyst at Gartner Inc., a market research firm in Stamford, Connecticut. ``The ability for piracy and content to be stolen is minimal.’’
Joost, based in New York, with offices in London and Leiden, the Netherlands, offers a ``piracy-proof’’ platform, the companies said. Content creators and viewers must both download free software, which limits sharing. YouTube, the fifth most- visited Web site, according to indexer Alexa.com, requires no software and places few restrictions on sharing.
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