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Sunshine app offers large data file transfer

RICHARD WEINER
Technology for Lawyers

Published: January 29, 2016

It’s in beta, but the new Sunshine app looks like it has the potential to offer large data file transfer without using the cloud or any other intermediary platform.

This little app looks like it might have the ability to radically alter how these large files are transferred and, particularly, to change that process across the legal profession.

People who want to transfer large data files, like lawyers involved in document-intensive cases, have had several options to effectuate those transfers: Print them off and mail them, use a cloud-based service like Dropbox, use document collaboration programs and download them on a piece of media.

All of these solutions involve some kind of intermediary like the post office, media, the cloud, etc.

Sunshine (https://www.sunshineapp.com) connects all of your devices together to instantly transfer, stream, or download files of any size between any and all devices, without using the cloud.

The app is free.

According to the company’s website, file sharing is done through peer-to-peer technology with transfer times more than 10 times the speed of Dropbox and with none of the security concerns.

Because the data transfer is device-to-device, there is no cost for cloud storage, nor are there any limits on the size of the data packages. There are also no limits on the type of files from documents to 4K videos, music, full-length films, full presentations, photo albums, HDR photos or any other electronic data.

The data can be streamed, previewed or downloaded on the recipient device. Transfers are also not restricted by operating system or type of device. There are no data drops or drops in speed.

Sunshine “uses two separate, complex authentication systems, which allows each device to only see part of encryption,” according to the website. “All unidentified requests are blocked – your files are only send where you want them to go.”

Users can transfer data within any network that they create as long as the other users also have Sunshine.

In beta, yes, and you may not want to trust your data to a product that is still not officially released. But this looks like it could be one of the most powerful apps in the history of legal data transfer.


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