New Music Player to Spread Files Wirelessly

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Saturday January 7, 2006 @07:08AM from the riaa-nightmare-scenarios dept.

PontifexPrimus writes "A new P2P / media player project could allow mobile music devices to automatically transfer media files from other players running the same software. While there seems to be a certain risk (mislabeling files, creating intentionally corrupt songs) there also seems to be a huge potential to this idea (get on the subway to work and when you arrive there your available music has doubled). Of course, this also is a nightmarish scenario for the RIAA-like organizations, especially since such swapping occurs without active user participation, in a drive-by way."

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RIAA is on board of Titanic by BadassJesus · 2006-01-07 07:24 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Their business model is sinking lower and lower every day. All the passive media that means songs or movies will end up this way in this new broadband connected world. What we hear or see we can record, replicate and "share". Only user authenticated interactive media like online gamming may benefit.