I agree with the principal behind the move, but...
The technology for streaming video is already there. If they are worried about people pirating the stuff, DRM is already there (although people can still just plug their PC to a video/DVD recorder, so why bother?)
Thing is, the 'unified program' they release will be for windows. They are making no effort for cross-platform programs at the moment. And they are inventing new, proprietry protocols all the time. If they want to do a P2P system, they need to make an open, standard protocol that everyone can use, not add another cl;osed, proprietry, windows only program (They might as well just use Joost if they are going to do that)
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Why?
Why do they insist on re-inventing the wheel.
I agree with the principal behind the move, but...
The technology for streaming video is already there. If they are worried about people pirating the stuff, DRM is already there (although people can still just plug their PC to a video/DVD recorder, so why bother?)
Thing is, the 'unified program' they release will be for windows. They are making no effort for cross-platform programs at the moment. And they are inventing new, proprietry protocols all the time. If they want to do a P2P system, they need to make an open, standard protocol that everyone can use, not add another cl;osed, proprietry, windows only program (They might as well just use Joost if they are going to do that)