Zune to end file sharing war
p2pnet.net News:- I was reading AppleInsider on Zune and had to think …..
With all the negative press M$ is getting on this product for it’s ‘capabilities’ not adding up to the price matching iPod I had to sit back and think a moment. This little baby is capable of precisely what I’d been telling friends (possibly even p2pnet lol, I’d have to check my older comments) for years.
The next direction of p2p is going to be ‘offline’.
Think a moment on that. This device is capable of connecting to other people within its range and copying the music/etc from them. It’s going to take some black hat a matter of weeks (if that) to remove the anti-burn and remove the play restrictions from this thing.
At that point, you’d drive around your neighborhood and by the time you got home you’d have a full player you could dump onto your PC.
Sure, this player’s expensive – but it’s moving in the right direction for what the modding community is going to do with it. Five years from now, similar players will be selling for $75, have more storage and simple home-mods will allow you to leech, burn and play whatever, whenever, however you want.
So, my real opinion? M$ has single handedly (though accidentally) ended the p2p file sharing war. It’s just a matter of – can they meet the 200mil global order size so everyone can unplug. lol
Just my 10 cents.
_-Jile-_
[Editor's note - in case you're wondering what the tacky-looking pic has to do with this, it's supposed to be a big guy and a little guy cuddling a rabbit. Yeh. Anyway, it was part of Microsoft's original teaser leading up to the launch, after Bill and the Boyz had been denying there was any such thing as an MS music player.]
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October 4th, 2006 at 5:02 pm
Personally… I wouldnt drive around in search of open stuff to download, when I personally can sit at my pc, and pick and choose what I want, and not have to use a 3rd party program to un-crypt everything I got.
Is it a cool feature… oh yeah…. but P2P is here to stay for a very long time, because of its convience and ease of use. Like I said… the Zune is cool and all… but my PSP can do everything it can do, and I can use my own music on it without having to worry about the drm and can even share it too… so yeah…
October 4th, 2006 at 5:17 pm
“This device is capable of connecting to other people within its range and copying the music/etc from them. It’s going to take some black hat a matter of weeks (if that) to remove the anti-burn and remove the play restrictions from this thing.”
IMHO most users will not risk wrecking their Zune to install cracked firmware, or just be too intimidated technically to try. The Zune itself will probably not be the wireless “killer app” but some enterprizing manufacturer will step up and build a portable media device that will do unrestricted wireless file transfers. That WILL be a killer app indeed, but not from Microsoft…
October 4th, 2006 at 6:40 pm
I dunno what the fuss is all about. The future of p2p being offline and what not. The futures already here. People have been exchanging mp3s over bluetooth on their cellphones for well over a few years now. The only difference with Zune will be the added size of the amount that you can share, not limited to the teeny cell phones capacity. After all this use of “offline p2p” there hasnt been significant decrease in the use of “online”-p2p, in fact there has been significant increase, so I doubt the puny Zune would be able to make a dent in the ever-mighty p2p world.
October 4th, 2006 at 8:16 pm
A 2.5″ portable hard drive is currently the best. In capacitys up to 120Gb, just plug it in to your friends PC and dump/suck all your/their files.
October 5th, 2006 at 2:20 am
>IMHO most users will not risk wrecking their Zune to install cracked firmware
For an average user “DRM on DVD and CD – who cares?”. This player, on the other hand, may raise awareness of DRM, as no other app did.
> but some enterprizing manufacturer will step up and build a portable media device that will do unrestricted wireless file transfers.
Likely to be located outside US.
October 5th, 2006 at 8:13 am
I did not read anything new there since the beginning of the year, but i can imagine something like Push!Music – http://www.viktoria.se/fal/projects/music/index.html – could do the trick.