Joox Is NOT Down For Good (CONFIRMED)

Update: Theeeeeeeeeey’re baaaaaaaaaaaaack!

Were back! We suffered some server problems as you might have noticed.
But here we are! Running strong again. There is a expected server outage sometime in
the coming week or so, more about that later.

Ohh, and here’s the Simpsons Movie (swe subs)!

Remember I told you about Joox.net, a great online streaming site? Do you also remember I said that problem with internet nowadays, is that there was too many Illegal-Content Hunters out there? Well, Joox is gone now, beaten to death by those hunters, and I found some answers about it.

Joox never hosted their own stuff, as you’ve might’ve noticed. It was all Stage6’s work. Stage6 is DivX’s own YouTube-wannabe but they’re focused on high quality by using their own DivX-player (which is quite good). On their blog I found this post that explained why Joox lost all its content and is now unpingable:

Just because you don’t get caught, doesn’t mean it isn’t wrong. We’ve fielded a lot of questions lately about our takedown policy. More specifically, “Why the **** did you delete my movie?” There are essentially three reasons why the video you uploaded would or could be removed:

1. 1. We see it and believe it violates copyright;
2. 2. We’re told by a person claiming to own it that it violates his or her copyright; or
3. 3. We don’t like it – it’s bad for the community.

Before we delve into each of these three reasons, let me give a simple explanation of copyright. Copyright protects an artist’s original expressions from being unfairly used or copied by others. An “artist” can be a painter, an author, a songwriter, a filmmaker, or anyone else expressing ideas in a fixed media.

Of course we all knew, or should’ve known, that the movies/series/animes/whatever was breaching and ass-raping the copyrights, but it made my days when I had nothing to do at work for the last two weeks. Also, I believe alot of people got to download the movies that was hosted so at least someone’ve made something good out of it.

I put the (unconfirmed) in the title because Joox may be back, if they can find another page that’ll let them upload copyright-violating movies and such. I’ll be watching South Park while eating lunch today, as South Park Zone is still up and running.

Source: Stage6 Blog - post #30