In late 2007, with Hollywood on the verge of a writers' strike, Whedon decided to step outside the studio system and produce a Web series about an inept villain.
It's also worth noting Livestream isn't constraining the Studio software to its own web platform, meaning that, as is the case with the HD500, streams can also be shared to third-party places like Ustream, Akamai and, you guessed it, YouTube Live.