Grouper - New P2P software could end illegal music

[mwiner]

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/09/13/grouper_p2p_launc/

Welcome to the world of legal online music ambiguity. Say hello to Grouper.

Grouper - a temporarily stealth software project - has gone up for download and instantly created a confusing divide between the old world and the new. Unlike most P2P software that shares music and other files with world+dog, Grouper focuses on sharing files between friends. Users can set up mini-P2P networks and open up their photos, music, movies and documents. This approach seems much more similar to old-style content swapping where friends handed each other a mixed CD or recording of the UT versus Texas A&M football game, just with a techie twist.