tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-66118900631025695942011-04-21T13:31:34.975-07:00adminnoreply@blogger.comBlogger11100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6611890063102569594.post-45272184016392925982007-03-01T23:21:00.000-08:002007-03-01T23:22:59.869-08:00<center><a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_ppZe7B8W7_A/Rd0vXS0yZqI/AAAAAAAAAAM/WbiWL4eCfgk/s1600-h/joost.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5034232035706824354" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_ppZe7B8W7_A/Rd0vXS0yZqI/AAAAAAAAAAM/WbiWL4eCfgk/s320/joost.jpg" border="0" /></a></center><br /><div></div><br /><div>The Skype guys that founded <a href="http://www.joost.com/" rel="nofollow">Joost</a> have <a href="http://www.sci-tech-today.com/news/Viacom-Squeezes-YouTube--Gets-Joost/story.xhtml?story_id=11100DKEC6ML" rel="nofollow">struck a deal</a> with Viacom that will likely enable the online TV service to broadcast MTV and Comedy Central, among others (can you say "Paramount Pictures and VH1"). This is an interesting development – a friendly agreement between content providers and an internet service – considering that <a href="http://money.cnn.com/blogs/browser/2007/02/is-google-falling-apart.html" rel="nofollow">YouTube is going down</a> the Copyright violation tubes.<br /><br />Joost is available only via a limited beta and plans to gives users free access to thousands of programs and channels not readily available on the Web.</div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6611890063102569594-4527218401639292598?l=anet-works.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>adminnoreply@blogger.com2