Comments on: Zune to end file sharing war

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Thu, 05 Oct 2006 13:13:43 +0000

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.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Thu, 05 Oct 2006 07:20:22 +0000

>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.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Thu, 05 Oct 2006 01:16:25 +0000

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.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Wed, 04 Oct 2006 23:40:05 +0000

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.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Wed, 04 Oct 2006 22:17:34 +0000

“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…

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Wed, 04 Oct 2006 22:02:09 +0000

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…