Vincenzo writes for Slashdot that Viacom decided to sign up with Joost for releasing their content through them. This step will guarantee some safety from piracy for Viacom’s content since just about everyone can copy content from YouTube or to YouTube. The decision was announced just after Viacom pulled off over 100.000 videos from YouTube. You should expect Joost to host content from MTVI, Comedy Central or CBS.

Viacom will be searching for safe “partners like Joost” in the future.  Joost in the meanwhile, while lacking a bit of the programming we all want, is now going to be able to offer us a wider range of shows, considering they also have a “smaller” deal with Warner.
This is great news for Joost, and we are looking forward to their official exit from the private beta testing, everybody is enthusiastic about it, and so are we!

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