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I wonder if there's a sufficient market for peer-to-peer lending of movies and games, backed by a floating deposit. Uber for discs-by-mail, as it were.
by lukifer 12y ago
I wonder if there's a sufficient market for peer-to-peer lending of movies and games, backed by a floating deposit. Uber for discs-by-mail, as it were.
- CamperBob2 12y agoA distributed peer-to-peer Netflix is really what's needed.
- DLister 12y agoYou mean like Tribler? [http://www.tribler.org/ http://www.tribler.org/] Its a decentralized torrent client with built in video player. Form what their site says they are planning to have proxying freenet like system where no one other than you can know both what you are downloading and where you are or who is seeding what where. If that works it could be a netflix/thepiratebay killer.
- arebop 12y agoI remember that this idea was tried for music in 2007 and it took a few years for courts to wind up with a fairly nuanced legal landscape for doing this in the U.S. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitol_Records,_Inc._v._MP3Tunes,_LLC http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitol_Records,_Inc._v._MP3Tun...]
- hyperbovine 12y ago(S)he's talking about people physically mailing DVDs, not the digital locker thing. I can't imagine that would be illegal, but never underestimate the entertainment industries ability to buy judges.