Now this is why the Download and the Streaming models of P2P are very different. In P2P streaming this situation requires six peers as shown above, whereas in P2P downloading you can have as few as one peer – it will simply take six times as long as to get the file. But in the latter case, when you are done downloading you can watch a flawless playback. In the former, you have no guarantee of the quality.

Quoted: While Joost is not 100% P2P powered, as they have indicated they will use some servers/CDN infrastructure, they do rely on P2P in large part ...

f they did Skype and Kazaa, they must be smart, right? But very smart people sometimes make very big mistakes. Sometimes it is because they remain glued to their old paradigms. Below I describe some of the mistakes they have made – some in the core concepts of the technology and business model.

Quoted: Joost raised $45 million in a venture round of financing, the company will announce this evening. Investors include Sequoia Capital, Index Ventures, CBS Corporation, Viacom ...

At Joost™ just about all our software is built on top of open source stuff, and we're proud of it! These pages attempt to skim the surface of what we do with open source, and also provide a glimpse of how we try to contribute back to the community.