According to a post over at GigaOm Those folks over at BitTorrent Inc are seeking to innovate by providing a social sharing service which they are (imaginatively) calling Share. Allegedly this is to compete with cloud based services such as Dropbox, but I’m not entirely sure why. If you’ve got that many people that you need to share things with that BitTorrent is needed to share the load then it’s likely you are sharing something you shouldn’t or you are doing it wrong.

I think that perhaps within the corporate environment this could be useful in that it may mean that you don’t need all those centralised servers, and you can instead allow data to live just where it is needed. This is more along the lines of what the Freenet are doing but without the layers of security.

For this to work in the social sense you have to advertise the presence of the content and then have public seeding nodes replicate this for you. Without this it’s unlikely that the data will be available from more than one source and so much of the benefits of the under pinning P2P technology is not going to be leveraged in any way, shape or form.

The only benefit I can think of would be for sharing large files (say 500MB+) as the P2P process would allow you to trickle feed it down over a long period of time.

Am I just missing something here?