Joost is an interesting theory, but if it was adopted to any great level, would pretty much bring the internet to it's knees. The bandwidth required to make it run is beyond stupid.
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Originally Posted by Joost Website
Full-screen video of any kind inevitably use a lot of bandwidth, and The Venice Project™ is no exception to this. The software downloads about 320MB per hour (as a maximum) and uploads up to 105 MB per hour. The more popular the content is on our platform, the more sources it can be pulled from and the less redundant data we send; that number can be as low as 220MB per hour of viewing. We've made what we think is a reasonable trade-off between the quality of the picture and the bandwidth usage, but this is full-screen TV-quality video - so there are limits on how low we can keep bandwidth usage while delivering good picture quality.
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Figure 300mb an hour... 10 hours a day call it 3 gig a day, 90 gig a month PER USER. If you are an ISP with 100,000 plus customers, the weight of this stuff on your network and peering points is going to be truly intense.
My feeling is that it will get more widely used, and then a whole bunch of people are going to get hit with excess bandwidth charges from their ISPs and suddently it will be VERY uncool to use. I notice that Sympatico (my ISP here) recently changed their programs so that new customers cannot get unlimited bandwidth. I think they see an issue coming.