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New p2p application in beta
10:57AM Sunday May 18 2008 by KathrynV
tags: Fileswapping · business · wireless · hardware
People with unlocked iPhone and iPod Touch gadgets are happy to find that they can now share music and media files through a new application. Songs can be downloaded via a p2p network with the average Wi-Fi download speed being approximately three minutes. Movie downloads are taking a little over an hour on the average iPhone using this new application. Download speeds are about twice as fast for those people using the AT&T EDGE network rather than a standard Wi-Fi connection. The application is still in beta, the speeds aren't good enough for most people and there are apparently some bugs to work out but people who love their iPhones feel that this is a step in the right direction for media sharing.

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Transmaster
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edit:
May 18th, @11:41AM

More Heart burn for the RIAA

I wondered when this was going happen. They must be thinking of the "Wac-A-Gopher game. I just love it.
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Re: More Heart burn for the RIAA

Not really. From the AT&T EULA;

Prohibited and Permissible Uses: Data Service sessions may be conducted only for the following purposes: (i) Internet browsing; (ii) email; and (iii) corporate intranet access (including access to corporate email, customer relationship management, sales force automation, and field service automation applications). PROHIBITED USES INCLUDE, BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO, USING SERVICES: (I) WITH SERVER DEVICES OR WITH HOST COMPUTER APPLICATIONS, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, WEB CAMERA POSTS OR BROADCASTS, CONTINUOUS JPEG FILE TRANSFERS, AUTOMATIC DATA FEEDS, TELEMETRY APPLICATIONS, PEER-TO-PEER (P2P) FILE SHARING, AUTOMATED FUNCTIONS OR ANY OTHER MACHINE-TO-MACHINE APPLICATIONS;
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Re: More Heart burn for the RIAA

Considering this is about unlocked iPhones, does T-Mobile have a similar clause?
ja2007123

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.....

.......this is a step in the right direction for media sharing. Do you mean Illegal Media Sharing?
lordofwhee

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Re: .....

Maybe if everything anyone has ever sent over any P2P protocol was illegal, but anyone with any sense at all knows that's not how it is.
thevorpal

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said by ja2007123 See Profile :

.......this is a step in the right direction for media sharing. Do you mean Illegal Media Sharing?
It's illegal? Oh man, look out for that class action lawsuit forming against Blizzard.
George Kidd

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3 Mbps BlueTooth here we come....

A great way to avoid all those RIAA/MPAA trolls lurking on the Internet spying on "Your" data links with your friends. Aren't all your friends somewhere close by?
bullet087

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edit:
May 18th, @03:57PM

Mistake?

"Download speeds are about twice as fast for those people using the AT&T EDGE network rather than a standard Wi-Fi connection."

Either the program was designed to throttle the faster connection, or DSLReports got it all wrong.

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Re: Mistake?

Who's crap Wi-Fi are they using?
Here, I have G enabled and can send/recieve at 22-24mbps.

Trust me, MP3s are a bit faster than 3 minutes. 3-4 seconds maybe.
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Re: Mistake?

said by dadkins See Profile :

Who's crap Wi-Fi are they using?
Here, I have G enabled and can send/recieve at 22-24mbps.

Trust me, MP3s are a bit faster than 3 minutes. 3-4 seconds maybe.
Wifi is an int resting creature. Anything could have affected that transfer. Also consider that processing power of the iphone. Files will transfer faster on your laptop than your mobile device due to the processing power of your device and how fast it can shove it in and out of ram.

I would be really surprised if you could transfer ~5MB of data in 3-4 seconds to your iphone over 802.11g. I would have to estimate, maybe 10-25 seconds. And that's a rough estimate. Just my thoughts.

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I want to know on what planet is AT&T EDGE speed twice as fast as even the crappiest WiFi connection.

Whoever wrote that statement has obviously never used either AT&T EDGE or a WiFi connection. Out in the boonies, I have been forced to use a few long distance very low signal strength WiFi connections, but even the worst of them still beat using an AT&T EDGE connection (which I only use if I really, really need internet access and nothing else is available).
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Service Charges on Edge

Look at that contract it said email/web unlimited. If people make a habit of this AT&T could begin to enforce that.
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George Kidd

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Re: Service Charges on Edge

Hmmm... Generally folks that are using unlocked phones are not using AT&T either... Guess AT&T's TOS don't apply in that case...

djrobx

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Re: Service Charges on Edge

Yeah, I think "Filesharing on Jailbroken Phones" would have been a better headline.

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Another way to drain your battery

Its a interesting idea but its a waste of battery life. This is best left on your own computer if your going to do it.
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djrobx

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Re: Another way to drain your battery

Its also an absurd waste of limited EDGE bandwidth. Stick to wifi if you absolutely must do this.
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edit:
May 18th, @11:52PM

ATT's EULA

"PROHIBITED USES INCLUDE, BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO, USING SERVICES:...TELEMETRY APPLICATIONS,..."

Hmmm.. Guess that means not using the built-in GPS offerings on the I-Phone, eh? I.E. Google Maps.

Interesting.

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