Just when I thought P2P was stagnant, stuck on torrents and limewire, along came Mojo by deusty designs came along and changed everything. Limewire stuck to the basis that you were going to share content you wanted to share and that you would keep it in a certain folder (or folders) and that you would remove it when you were done sharing it.

Mojo uses your iTunes library to enable more sharing features from within iTunes, extending the typical “i can stream music off of this location but i can’t save it” model that iTunes has to something along the lines of “If this person has added me on Mojo, I can take anything that isn’t protected content and I expect them to want to do the same”.

It’s not the most stable product in the world, it crashes, it doesn’t play that well with firewalls and it’s a bit of a pest to set up but past these obvious “beta as final” minor glitches, it’s a really good program to use when it’s working.Music transfer is based on upload bandwidth, so it’s never going to be as fast as other forms of P2P but it still seems to give the other methods a run for their money. 

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