I had some thoughts the other day about hosts each serving up a different yet static set of bytes, but not having any knowledge what they were being used for.

I had some thoughts the other day about hosts each serving up a different yet static set of bytes, but not having any knowledge what they were being used for. I quickly realised that whatever was mapping IP's to particular bytes was going to be wildly inefficient when stored, and probably just as illegal (if its illegal to distribute). The focus of the idea was to keep the spirit of BitTorrent (at least what I think the spirit is) while relieving the risk for those willing to share their bandwidth and computer resources. Excellent read; thanks for the article.