Following the Grokster vs MGM ruling yesterday and my question about its implications for mobile content, News.com does a story on how P2P software is increasingly being embraced by cellular phone manufacturers and service providers to help their nascent music businesses.
Nokia has reportedly developed P2P software that would allow sharing of text documents, photos and, eventually, music between its 6600 model phones. Mitsubishi says it too has developed a prototype P2P phone.
And three weeks ago, Canadian operator Rogers Wireless started using peer-to-peer software as a marketing tool for its music download service. (It is using Melodeo‘s software).
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