March 16, 2006
Alarm bells ring as music downloads go mobile
It's enough to leave record-label executives trembling: researchers in Sweden are developing an application that could allow music to be sent wirelessly from one mobile device to another, writes The Guardian. "It's a concept that threatens content owners' rights and, especially, revenue, just as illicit internet file sharing does."
"The Push!Music prototype being developed at the Future Applications Lab at the Viktoria Institute in Sweden is a mobile, peer-to-peer (P2P) music-listening and sharing application that runs on Wi-Fi-enabled devices. It allows users to "push" music to others in the area. In effect, you are opening your mobile music collection to others. It's a digital rights management migraine in the making.
"There is no reason why P2P will not exist on mobiles - it existed on the internet," says Thomas Husson, a mobile analyst at Jupiter Research."
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