Can someone please tell me what’s so radically special beyond the free hype that the old kazaa team always get from most of the media drones.

Beyond contacts (/contracts) and special halo; It’s my opinion that If, for an example, TVU was treated like skype or Napster by the media, it would already be no.1 in this space.

It could then act like youtube and negotiate rights after the event, but maybe joost has learnt the lessons from kazaa that you can’t mix piracy and make lots of real money -they [joost] know, that whichever of these companies succeed, if they get monopoly rights, they’ll be creating the world’s largest virtual cable network, without any real infrastucture cost.

More likely though, the winners will be among sony, microsoft and apple (as they’ve been planning for a decade), who’ll just use a firmware upgrade to turn their boxes into hubs, repeaters and
caches (IF they have imagination).

Yours kindly,

Shakir Razak

NewTeeVee » Bram Disses Joost: wait a minute, and Windows only DRM isn’t an old media way of doing things? Pot-kettle-black Bram?
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Look at computers, we are still using the desktop metaphor, which is now approaching 30 years old.

Basically, people don’t like change.

Until software recommendations engines mature to the point of 1) being transparent and 2) to knowing what I want better than I do, media will need to be categorized for easy browsing and searching.

Combining categories/channels/genres with tags, keywords, user ratings, comments, reviews and other social aspects will take a while but that is where we will be heading.

Google and digg and others are working hard on video search. When you then look at motionbox and some of the other tagging services that let users tag individual segments of video then we are getting somewhere.

But, like most things, most of this will just end up being used to server more and more targeted ads.

NewTeeVee reports how Bram Cohen, creator of BitTorrent, was dissing Joost during his keynote at the VON New Video Summit on Monday:“Joost is kind of a quirky thing, it’s fundamentally based on the channels concept, which, like I’ve said, is…

Having a “channel” limits the amount of “streams”, ensuring that there are enough users (peers/seeds) for each channel. Channels with little or no users will be like old torrents with little or no seeds.