In what is likely to be a major shift in the company’s strategy, peer-to-peer startup Joost is going to stop making its desktop client.

The decision to suspend the client is likely to be announced soon. The company is going to a browser-only strategy, in which much of its content is going to be available through a browser-based player. Joost, will release a small plug-in that would embed itself in the browser and allow you to grab files using the P2P technologies. The web client is likely to have better quality than average video sites.