spotify does this at music-scale: "Spotify – Large Scale, Low Latency, P2PMusic-on-Demand Streaming" [1] TLDR: getting low latency, low stutter playback is a

spotify does this at music-scale: "Spotify – Large Scale, Low Latency, P2PMusic-on-Demand Streaming" [1] TLDR: getting low latency, low stutter playback is a lot more complicated than bittorrent, but clearly possible, and already solved. as dotBen points out, it doesn't prevent Spotify's business from getting re-negotiated into the ground every 3 years by the ip rights-holders. i would like to see the technology sponsored by a business or industry who cares about freedom of information - like the press - otherwise it's just a few nerds working on a startup. I mean, app, I mean, toy project. [1] (googlecache) http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://www.csc.kth.se/~gkreitz/spotify-p2p10/spotify-p2p10.pdf http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...