Automatic p2p: extreme file sharing
p2p news / p2pnet: Sony’s first non-Japanese mouthpiece, Howard Stringer, made an interesting remark at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.
"Content is no longer pushed at consumers, it is pulled by them," he said.
With that in mind, what would it be like if music could find its own way to the people who wanted to hear it, instead of the other way around?
The question is posed by PUSH!MUSIC at the Viktoria Institute in Gothenburg, Sweden.
The answer? A, "Wi-Fi-enabled music players that automatically establish a peer-to-peer connection, enabling people to either ‘browse’ the music collections of others and take a copy of whatever they like, or – here’s the magic part – just automatically recieve music the software has selected for you," says The Raw Feed.
"(You here that? That’s the sound of teeth gnashing and hair ripping coming from RIAA HQ)."
Now, "Imagine that you have a mobile device that can store and play back music files, for example a mobile phone with an MP3 player," says PUSH!MUSIC.
"As you encounter various people, the devices you are carrying connect to each other wirelessly and media agents from the other nearby devices check the status of your media collection.
"Based on what you have been listening to in the past and which files you already own, new music might spontaneously and autonomously ‘jump’ from another device to yours (and vice versa).
"Later, when you listen to your songs, your Push!Music player also plays some newly obtained tunes that you had not heard before."
Go here for Push!Music publications and presentations.
Also See:
interesting remark – Sony’s latest plans, January 6, 2006
The Raw Feed – RIAA Hell: Automatic Wireless MP3 Sharing, January 5, 2006
January 6th, 2006 at 4:44 pm
Sounds a lot like FreeWan
January 9th, 2006 at 10:55 pm
Forget how many songs you could get just walking around – imagine an automotive connector – that ties you into an amplified antennae (or even one that is a perm part of your car so while your sleeping, your car is sharing music with all the cars near yours) – you drive around a city like Portland Oregon, San Francisco California or New York …. imagine for one second if you were really sending and receiving files like this while driving – heck, it’d bog your unit down after a very short period of time – they’d have to bit-torrent style the transfers so each user could send a file once within a radius and have it distribute to an infinite number of usersâ¦then of course youâd have to ensure that if you cant download from a user that they cant download from you to avoid hacks that leechâ¦.. and a hash checking systemâ¦. Uuugh, ok this could get ugly on a geek side but the idea is sweet.
If this is really being built at a user hand-held level, then the downloading days of p2p are as good as over – heck, everyone will own one of these or a clone of it from another country within a matter of months.. LMAO!
If this is a spoof (I’d be happy if p2pnet never did another one) I’ll be depressed – but the concept sounds good.
Just my 10 cents.
_-Jile-_