News P2P for cell phones: Reach out and share something

Looks as if the powers-that-be and attempting to get a handle on this before the genie gets out of the bottle - unlike P2P on the web. This report from news.com:

Cell phones are learning to share files, but the earliest efforts don't nearly resemble the peer-to-peer renegades like Napster and Kazaa that the designers have in mind.

FoneShare, an application introduced two weeks ago by NewBay Software, does let people share their collections of ring tones, graphics, games, songs, movie trailers and other wireless extras with strangers. FoneShare will debut next year as a subscription service, running over privately owned and operated cellular networks, and the sharing will be done via Web sites controlled by a wireless operator, said NewBay Chief Executive Paddy Holahan. That's a far cry from Napster, which was free, let people choose from digital music libraries stored on untold millions of personal computers, and relied heavily upon the anonymity of the public Internet.

When it became possible five years ago to freely swap copyrighted material over the Internet, the entertainment industry began a battle that still rages today. But, as file-sharing now finds its way from PCs to cell phones, there is very little resistance; in fact, those same fierce opponents of file-swapping are among the technology's biggest cheerleaders.

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It's not difficult to see why they're interested in this - It has the potential to be bigger than P2P on the internet. As mobile bandwidth increases (3G et al), It'll mushroom into an almost all pervasive, always on file-palooza. I mean, there's not many times you're without your mobile, is there?

 

How long until someone designs a free version of this? .

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Unless youve got an SD port its not like you can store much though. I cant imagine people carrying round a 300gig harddisk in their pocket with their phone.

 

I would think it would be more for sharing phone software\games\pics etc... which means that there will be more than enough space .

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I would be that person

 

rofl, surprisingly (sp*) i don't know you that well yet i know thats true .

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