New Ustream layout, Improvement or Cheap Knockoff?

I wandered over to ustream.tv today and much to my surprise I noticed a new look, and this new look caused me to do a double take, because it looks eerily similiar to another popular streaming sites' layout.

First lets take a look at how ustream use to look, before todays update:

Clean, simple, easy to see the main stream, and other live streams. Good sized announcements, and underneath an organized list of popular recorded content. Now I will admit the colors aren't all that attractive, but the basic layout, excellent.

Now for how it looks today:



One word, cluttered. Things are everywhere. Announcements, featured announcements, everything just looks thrown on the page. Oddly, this is what caused me to do a double take, because one reason I never became involved in the other live streaming service, justin.tv, was because it was ugly, and unappealing to look at:



Now, doesn't these two look incredibly similiar? For one the main live channels window is basically the same, with featured, and most viewers. Then you have the side column full of announcements.

Instead of ustream making it easy to browse all the current live feeds, it instead feels it important to feature only a select few people on the front of its site, everyone else is listed on the "live" page, but instead of providing a preview window, you are instead forced to go to the live page of the user and then come back to the live page if you don't like the feed. There also seems to be bugs in which some ustreamer's profile pages give you a 404 when you attempt to access the live page, take TJENN for example, here is his profile, now click on the go to show page. 404.

Ustream has failed to provide a useful update to their site, instead they favor top users, copied Justin.tv's look and feel, and more than likely annoyed a good chunk of their streaming community.