Janus Friss speak about Joost at MediaGuardian Edinburgh TV Festival
Janus Friis was interviewed by Matt Wells, Guardian Unlimited’s head of audio. Here are a few highlights:
Charging users, introducing adult content and never going down the “slippery slope” of splitting ad revenue with ISPs.
On the BBC iPlayer: “Great product, not as good as it (Joost) will be”.
Joost “could add pay-per-view in the future” and would “not rule out” introducing potentially lucrative adult content “sometime in the future”.“the reality is the internet can cope. Cisco and ISPs can scale”. “people running ISPs” are in favour (of Joost) but those within the ISP world developing similar products don’t like it. “If any ISP turned off eBay, Skype or YouTube other ISPs would find themselves with a lot of new users,” is how he ended his defence on why ISPs are unlikely to get heavy-handed over the issue.
Read the whole interview at guardian.co.uk