Here's a short version: Joost, backed by the founders of Kazaa & Skype, tried this starting in 2007. It failed, YouTube and other streaming approaches won. So

Here's a short version: Joost, backed by the founders of Kazaa & Skype, tried this starting in 2007. It failed, YouTube and other streaming approaches won. Some of that was content, but some of that was that bandwidth became cheap enough. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joost https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joost