We’ve always wondered why Nokia has persisted in making its phone-users use the telecom company’s own proprietary content sharing services like Mosh when there were plenty of good and popular sites already being used by their subscriber base. Nevertheless, with Sony-like determination, with every new music or photo phone comes some walled-garden service.
Mosh was one such service – a place you could upload, store and share your content. The problem Nokia didn’t expect was that by offering such a service you have to manage it – and they were shocked to discover people were using it for things they didn’t expect – like pornography. Nokia seems to have gone into this project with naivety. At the king-of-content-sharing site YouTube you expect there to be hoards of moderators watching the content not only for dodgy content but also for copyright infringed stuff that might get them a law-suit or two.
As a result of dubious content, Nokia has finally decided to close the service. Reuters reports:
“We don’t know where it exactly goes and we are not entirely in control,” one of the founders of the site, George Linardos, told Reuters shortly after it was opened.
There is no official date for closing Mosh, but Nokia is expected to launch its Ovi store in May, merging its software Download! store with Mosh and widget service WidSets.
Like the Internet, Mosh attracted loads of pornographic content, and it also stoked tension between Nokia and record labels, with whom Nokia is in close cooperation for its music offerings.
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