UPDATE: Thanks to reader imer for letting us know that G2G has been shut down. It was Google that got to it, before the music companies. It was clear that one way or another, it couldn't continue.
A Dutch student is developing a way for multiple users to capitalize on the aggregated storage space of connected Gmail accounts to share files; it's called the G2G Exchange. The site is down as I type this, perhaps because of excessive publicity and demand. Later, it will come down as a result of excessive pressure from Google or the music companies. And, as file-sharing experiments go, this one is singularly pointless, if interesting. I can imagine the pleasure of getting the connected accounts to work, but in so doing the developer is threatening Google and its users. Comment response at BetaNews is overwhelmingly negative.
1. I guess that kind of thing is to be expected. Exposure to that type of exploit can be a good thing, if Google uses the info to tighten up its product. As the saying goes... What doesn't kill us, makes us stronger.
Posted at 4:42AM on Dec 19th 2005 by oyster