DISQUS

Welcome to mixx, Corvida! The community is certainly a friendlier bunch than "the other place". As mentioned, traffic is quality over quantity. Wasn't aware of a self-submission policy though?

Does this make the RIAA 'Thought Police'? I'm averaging about three 1984 references a day at the moment - I think that's very telling.

Totally agree with you and Cory here.

30-40 million people are estimated to download music "illegally" in the UK. We have a population of 60.7 million people.

Something tells me ISP's don't want to lose 30-40 million monthly-paying customers.

Oh, and if this comes anywhere near legislation (which I doubt so), it would amount to restriction of information in my eyes, contradicting EU law. Couple this with all the other privacy and freedom violations of the current government, I will not be giving them a single penny from there on in through taxes.

As with the others, it would certainly be a shame to see Joost disappear. I use it regularly, and have talked about it regularly, too. See a recent post: http://socialsoul.co.uk/2008/01/10/club-music-o...

Making it on to a living-room appliance would certainly help. Maybe that slingbox of tricks? I can't say if it would work as I've never used slingbox.

It seems no marketing has been done since launch - which directly contrasts with the owner's other (previous) child, Skype. Here in the UK, I always see "mainstream users" knowing what Skype is, and mostly using it. That hasn't happened with Joost - maybe because of that lack of partnerships.

Fingers crossed. Keep up the great work, Mathew!

Hazinski needs to define "journalism". To me, that is researching an event, trend, or situation and portraying that in written or spoken form.

It is a verb. It requires no noun ("journalist"). Personally, the process is as fundamentally available for doing as "eating" is. No one goes around saying "you aren't a REAL eater", do they?

Sounds like a very defensive argument to me.