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Joost vs BitTorrent
There seems to be a little battle brewing down in video download land. Apparently BiTorrent's creator Bram Cohen had a few strong words against the team behind Joost at the recent VON New Video Summit earlier this week. Bram said that Joost was doing things the old media way, and not being innovative enough with their channel based concept. Bram believes that channels are just one of many ways that content can be organized.Cohen also let people know that BitTorrent has about ten times more video content than iTunes, and mentioned their upcoming play on demand P2P streaming.
Do we sense a little battle for the top player here in the online video distribution market? Has Mr. Cohen gone a little too far by dissing his competitors? Shouldn't he focus more on what his company can offer the public, rather than smash down the competition?
[via NewTeeVee]
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