Joost, the P2P TV creation of Janus Friis and Niklas Zennström, the co-founders of Kazaa and Skype. The company, just raised a whopping $45 million in funding from five investors. “This funding represents a tremendous vote of confidence in Joost’s p
Paradoxically, one thing Zennström and Friis don’t particularly want is user-generated content. That’s partly tactical, a way to differentiate their new baby from YouTube. But they’ve also learned—the hard way—about the risks of letting the aud
After Joost makes a show available, the first users to request it (A) query the network at large (B) to see whether peers can provide the program. If they can’t, the request goes to a content server (C), which streams the show, interspersed with individ
