P2P & Web 2.0 Jon on 26 Jul 2007 02:42 pm
Torrents on your mobile phone
A quick post from something interesting I spotted in Pete Cashmore’s Mashable blog (and then a few other places). The post is about uTorrent, a BitTorrent client that is designed to work on your mobile phone. To date, there have been apps that let you access your P2P activity remotely (i.e. so you can set up a torrent at work to start downloading at home), but uTorrent Mobile is a simple browser-based application designed to let you do this on your phone.
What does this mean? There is still a lot of work to be done and connection speeds to become faster, but obviously the ultimate goal is to be able to fully access peer-to-peer networks and their content on your mobile phone and eventually to quickly download content to your mobile device. Translation - information and files moving back and forth even faster and into your pocket. Think about it, your law-breaking friend (because you don’t do that sort of thing) could download that Family Guy episode from a P2P network straight to his iPhone without having to wait for that darn single stream to finish (and without paying Fox because he is soulless). As phone connection speeds get faster, they get more storage capacity and they become better at playing media, this will surely begin to happen. Then, of course, not only could you pull from people’s computers on P2P networks around the world, but you could be file-sharing with everyone who had a phone. Yikes. No doubt Hollywood and music labels shudder at this thought - it’s tough enough as it is to regulate content sharing… Well, it’s not here yet, but on its way.
uTorrent officially launched on July 25th.
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