It might be that they don't need every peer to play nice, but a quorum of peers. If that were the case, a client with a buggy implementation could easily gain p

It might be that they don't need every peer to play nice, but a quorum of peers. If that were the case, a client with a buggy implementation could easily gain popularity quickly and mess things up, but it would take an attacker with a botnet to do it intentionally. It also looks like they're making this free as in beer: > Bram Cohen explains that the patent is in no way going to restrict user’ access to the new protocol, quite the contrary. BitTorrent Live will be available to end users for free, and publishers who are using the service and hosting it on their own will not be charged either.