Mojo allows users to download friends’ iTunes library
By Jonathan Schlaffer
All of us have that one friend that has tons of music that we might like to have. None of us want to take the time copying all those files to a DVD, CD or a hard drive because maybe we don’t want all of that music. But, what if you could just browse your friends’ library and pick and choose what you want?
Now you can with Mojo. Mojo is a different take on P2P software, complete with all the legal ramifications of other P2P and sharing software.
Lifehacker says that in order for Mojo to work, you will have to install it on your computer and your friend will have to install it on their computer. After that you will have to send your user IDs to each other in order to begin sharing libraries.
Mojo will show anyone that you’ve approved of as “buddies” and it works much like an IM application, showing who is online and offline at any given time.
It goes without saying that it isn’t possible to share music purchased through the iTunes store because those will not play on computers that aren’t approved to play it. It also falls on the gray side of the law even as companies are trying to move away from DRM - it’s still not exactly legal to share something you purchased with your friends.
Though, I can see legal uses for Mojo such as browsing your friends library remotely and previewing their music and then going off to buy it for yourself.
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May 16th, 2008
I think you’re “legal uses” argument might be more effective by targeting on the files that the sharer owns copyright to, such as tracks made in garageband. By giving the code, you could effectively be giving an irrevocable license to use the mojo service to take the songs they’ve created. However, yours takes to the issue of sampling, but that would fail the Sony test because there would be no need for the ability to download the song. Just thoughts. Essentially, this reminds me of MyTunes, but doesn’t require being on the same network connection…