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Joost 0.8.0.1 for Mac

The initial Mac version 0.8 of Joost was made available on February 16 but had problems:

“We’re temporarily suspending the download of the Mac OS X client while we fix a rather severe problem in the platform specific section of the code. The Windows version is fine. Apologies for this - but to some extent this is the inevitable result of being on the bleeding edge of a beta.”

Yesterday, Dirk-Willem van Gulik announced on the forum that “we’re back! - we just put up version 0.8.0.1 to replace the broken 0.8.0 MacOSX build of this morning. Apologies for this - but we had some teething problems with our MacOSX build chain. All part of the ‘fun and games’ called a beta.”

          

Add comment February 20th, 2007

Viacom signs with Joost

Viacom has signed a deal with Joost that will see content from MTV, Comedy Central, and CBS distributed on the new P2P distribution service. The move comes just two weeks after YouTube pulled 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.’

          

2 comments February 20th, 2007