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Friday, December 08, 2006
Teens do music swapping via Bluetooth
BBC reports about Children 'swap music via phones' using Bluetooth for the swapping.
Considering it's currently done via Bluetooth I doubt that this can be considered illegal, as it's clearly with a very limited scope, and among friends. This is rather similar to the earlier music swapping via Compact Cassette.
In the future, with flatrate data, music swapping between mobile phones will be done the same way as for PCs (using Torrent or similar), and then it's time to talk about illegal use, as one upload can lead to 1000s of anonymous downloads.
Considering it's currently done via Bluetooth I doubt that this can be considered illegal, as it's clearly with a very limited scope, and among friends. This is rather similar to the earlier music swapping via Compact Cassette.
In the future, with flatrate data, music swapping between mobile phones will be done the same way as for PCs (using Torrent or similar), and then it's time to talk about illegal use, as one upload can lead to 1000s of anonymous downloads.
