p2pnet.net news:- Talk about asking for trouble. Niklas Zenstrom and Janus Friis have issued a virtual challenge to hackers.

Their brainchild, Joost TV, is “piracy-proof,” they claim.

Zenstrom and Friis made their bones on Kazaa which, although it’s now a corporate p2p application, was once the poster child for file sharing.

These days the two work for eBay, which made them billionaires when it bought their Skype online phone system.

“Content creators and owners of all sizes are utilizing Joost’s high-quality, piracy-proof Internet platform,” they say in a promo, according to WebTVWire, going on:

“That is one heck of a bold claim to make. If Joost thinks that it won’t be possible for someone to record the videos broadcast on Joost, cut out the adverts, and distribute them illegally over the net then it is extremely misguided.

“No matter how fool proof the anti-piracy technology someone always finds a way around it.”

Definitely stay tuned :p

Slashdot it!

Also See:
WebTVWire - Joost thinks its piracy proof, April 16, 2007

If your Net access is blocked by government restrictions, try Psiphon from the Citizen Lab at thIs the endSurvey: How Did Copyright Infringement Become Equated with Robbery? (of the Net) nigh?zze University of Toronto’s Munk Centre for International Studies. Go here for the official download, here for the p2pnet download, and here for details. And if you’re Chinese and you’re looking for a way to access independent Internet news sources, try Freegate, the DIT program written to help Chinese citizens circumvent web site blocking outside of China. Download it here.

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Tired of being treated like a criminal? They depend on you, not the other way around. Don’t buy their ‘product’. Do bug your local politicians. Use emails, snail-mail, phone calls, faxes, IM, stop them in the street, blog. And if you’re into organizing, organize petitions, organize demonstrations and then turn up on your local political rep’s doorstep, making sure you’ve contacted your local tv/radio station/newspaper in advance. Don’t just complain. Do something!

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