We need a P2P anarchy team.
I'm for P2P IF the content is not stolen... But P2P is only popular BECAUSE ALL OF THE CONTENT IS STOLEN!!! If this is a centralized service like Napster -- you will get shut down because all the content providers will sue your ass.
If you are going to buy content -- first I'm not sure who will sell to you -- you will need a special license -- second, the purpose of P2P clients is to steal -- third -- you would make more money w/ a real website than w/ P2P... because if you don't have stolen content then you will have NO TRAFFIC.
Didn't you learn anything from Napster? Copyright infringement is no joke -- there is no way to escape the rights of the content provider -- and there is a lot of money to be made in lawsuits like this -- there is a new industry of high-tech copyright infringement police and they will be more than happy to take you down. You will be billed daily for all the illegal content that is provided on your system.
If you are decentralized like the useless bearshare virus then it will be easy to flood your system w/ bogus information that will make your service useless... and you make no profit anyway.
Either way you lose ;)
P2P clients aren't the future. You can't re-invent the web by trying to "own" it...
The web browser is the ultimate P2P interface anyway! You've been on the web so long you probably forgot that.
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