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PGHammer

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Re: Maybe it's just me

The problem isn't legal issues (Joost is actually going by the book getting the rights to the content it shows), but more a question of demand/bandwidth constraints. As to the fact that the shows it is airing are all older, that is largely because the closer content is to current, the more likely the rights will be closely held by the content owner (especially content that can be sold into syndication and/or DVD) and the *less* likely that content will be permitted onto a free service like Joost. I have Joost! Friends Edition running on Windows Vista (and on older hardware to boot) and am having no problems other than the expected bandwidth issues. I can run it either full-screen or even in a window; as long as I have bandwidth, playback is clean as a whistle. (Considering I'm on the East Coast, and the US Joost server is in Los Angeles, that's darn good.)


Mtav80
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This is one of those services I'm leery to utilize because I don't want to become reliant on it just to have it become unavailable due to legal or monetary issues.
Isn't Joost founded by the same guys that made Skype then sold it to ebay for an insane amount of money?


cob_
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This is one of those services I'm leery to utilize because I don't want to become reliant on it just to have it become unavailable due to legal or monetary issues.
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