Online video network Joost landed programming deals with Turner Broadcasting System Inc., Sony Pictures Television and Hasbro Inc., as it prepares to launch to the public later this month.

The service, founded by the creators of Internet phone service Skype and file-sharing service Kazaa, aims to be for the Internet what cable television is to living rooms by offering feature-length, higher-quality videos.

Joost differs from the snack-sized fare of video clips uploaded by users of top online video service, Google Inc.'s YouTube, which streams some 100 million videos over the Web on a daily basis.

"There's a huge hunger for long-form, high-quality online entertainment content," Yvette Alberdingk Thijm, executive vice president of content strategy at Joost, said.

Turner, a division of the world's largest media company Time Warner Inc., will offer Joost shows from news network CNN and Adult Swim.

Sony Pictures Television, a unit of electronics maker Sony Corp., will offer vintage shows from its archives including episodes of "Charlie's Angels," "Spiderman," "Starsky & Hutch" and "NewsRadio."

The announcement of more programming partners comes a day after Google responded to a $1 billion lawsuit brought on by Viacom Inc., charging the company with willfully infringing on its copyrights.

Break.com, one of the rising number of Web sites offering user-generated videos to rival the likes of YouTube, said on Sunday it would nearly double the amount of money it pays for video clips to $400.

Back in January 2005, Break.com started paying $50 per video and raised the price to $250 before Sunday's new hike, Chief Executive Officer Keith Richman said.

The money is even better for animated videos which, due to the complexity of their production, will fetch up to $2,000.

Web video payouts and increases like those unveiled by Break.com are being closely watched in the fledgling Internet arena where competitors such as Revver, BlipTV or iFilm are trying to improve content to lure viewers and advertisers.

For the most part, user-generated videos are less than 10 minutes long and show real people talking into their own cameras, dancing, singing or doing stunts. Sites like Google Inc.'s YouTube have not paid people who upload clips.

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