How does Joost work?
It’s pretty complex – there are a bunch of components that make Joost work. We have servers for the website, servers for the data that tell you information about the shows we have, and servers that manage your relationships. For the video, though, we do things a little bit differently, which is why we have a the proprietary video plugin, which we fondly call the Joost Plugin. Joost uses a peer-to-peer (P2P) network, which means that you don’t pull the video from one specific source, but you pull bits of the video from the other peers (a.k.a. people like you) who are on Joost.
