The all new Joost: No download required
Remember Joost? The peer-to-peer video client made from the guys that made Skype and Kazaa? Yeah, sometimes I forget it exists as well. But that’s okay, because the somewhat annoying desktop client is gone. Joost has finally gone to flash, just like Hulu and a number of other services.
Joost is touting its sort of social networking aspect to try and get people to use it. You can use JoostFeed to watch the videos your Joost friends recently watched, or you can “Shout” about videos to your friends to tell them to watch it. It might be a bit hard to actually use the feature unless your friends are those who haven’t already forgotten about Joost. More after the break.
Mistrial declared in RIAA file-sharing case
Remember Jammie Thomas? The single mother who fought against the RIAA when they sued her? She was originally told to pay $222,000 for copyright infringement. On Wednesday, U.S. District Court Judge Michael Davis declared a mistrial and ordered a retrial. The mistrial is ruled on the grounds that the RIAA had convinced him and the jury that it did not have to prove that files that were in Jammie Thomas’ Kazaa shared folder did not need to be downloaded. According to the judge, the RIAA downloading the files from the shared folder should prove enough, yet the instruction to the jury that no proof of the being able to download the files is needed was “erroneous.“
This is only a small step so far in the RIAA trials against piracy. Jammie Thomas was the first person to bring the claims into a court room while everyone else settled before reaching court. We’ll have to watch and see what a jury rules when under instruction that doesn’t so blatantly make the case essentially an automatic win for the RIAA.
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