The Guardian is raising unnecessary alarm over a nascent file/music sharing system on mobile, that could allow music to be sent wirelessly from one mobile device to another. The Push!Music prototype being developed at the Future Applications Lab at the Viktoria Institute in Sweden is a mobile, P2P music-listening and sharing application that runs on Wi-Fi-enabled devices.
This project is creating a bit of a buzz in media and other blogs, so much so that the project people have issued clarifications on their site about possible illegal use: “he purpose is NOT to spread music or other content illegally. There are a number of systems that allow you to pay for songs you have downloaded via filesharing and even give compensation to the person you got it from, for instance Shawn Fanning’s Snocap….Push!Music will simply help people find more music, which can only be good for the artists.”
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