PeerBox: Is this the new Napster for mobile phones?
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File-sharing has always been proportional to the size of connection bandwidth. When dial-up beep-beep modem was the only adapter available on the market, no trace of Napster. The DSL took off, university students, early adopter, hackers starts sharing copyrighted softwares, musics and now videos. And it’s not going to end that soon.
Now that everyone forecasts some giant bandwidths available soon for post-modern mobile phones, check what is coming too: PeerBox, a peer-to-peer file sharing platform for mobile phones.
The software works as its cousins applications on the Internet. Users would be able to search for files in open P2P networks, then download the chosen ones on their cellphones using some peer-to-peer networking connection. We supposed the software to only use mobile nodes and disdain server-like supernodes.
That would make sense, because PeerBox is ‘not’ a bad guy. In fact, it claims its integrated third-party technology, Robust Audio Hashing, would be efficient enough to detect copyrighted contents. So mobile phone vendors would bundle PeerBox to their handsets and share revenues from file-sharing.
Currently, PeerBox in its version 0.86 is supposed to be successfully installed on Nokia N70, 6682, 6681, 6680, 3230, 6670, 6630, 6260, 7610, 6620, 6600 Lenovo P930, Panasonic X800, X700, Samsung SGH-D720, SGH-D730.
And to entice those who have one of those cellphone models and could do some beta testing, until the official launch of the software, the whole catalog of songs is free!… Yes, the whole catalog!… Yes, free as in open bars!… Gooo!…
Apr 14, 2006 | By Nuno
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