Jazz Odyssey

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BetaNews reports on a new web-based service that repurposes the 2 gig of storage per user offered by Google for their Gmail account can be repurposed as a file exchange mechanism. The service is called G2G Exchange and it is a looooong way from ready for primetime. It is complicated (particularly in comparison to existing P2P clients), requires users to give up their Gmail account information and doesn’t work consistently with Internet Explorer.

A host of alpha issues means that workarounds, fixes and patches will eventually make sharing through Gmail possible, perhaps even easy. That doesn’t mean that Google won’t alter their protocols to defeat or disable the service, though they haven’t done that yet with the incredibly useful Gmail Drive or other customizations of the Gmail service.

User customization is a really compelling feature of many Google web applications…it will be interesting to see if, where, when and how Google decides to step in and start establishing restrictions on these modifications, or if it chooses to find the requisite legal loopholes to allow user-created mods to continue even if they result in stepping on the toes of content owners.