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imo p2p is ay-oh-kay - it's just another protocol/vfs entry.

Very true. We cooperate the public broadcaster in Europe and CreativeCommons people, so there is a large array of properly licensed content available through our Bittorrent protocol + video-on-demand extensions.

If I invest some developer effort from our side into collaboration & Beta Version, how many people would 1) try this code and 2) give us feedback? Is there already some Bittorrent plug-in available in XBMC?
-j

[spiff]

we have a large, active community here which is always thirsty for more content. i'm sure you would have tons of feedback. if you are looking for an official collaboration, i suggest you shoot a mail to [email]contact spambotprotection xbmc.org[/email] - theuni (cory) is the guy handling such things. that would force the issue of us drawing up our guideline on this as well

there's currently no bittorrent code, so choosing a suitable (cross platform!) library, preferably one with an active upstream, would be the first thing on your agenda.

[jwdv22]

This sounds like a very promising and excellent idea. Good luck.

[lorenzo]

A while back I had thought how cool it would be if TIVO let you share your recorded programs with friends via p2p. You could browse & view your friend's private library and vice versa.

I know YouTube (or the downstream) can't keep up with demand during peak hours, so having other personal computers serve pieces of the requested content would be a great idea. You could also get paid in the process for sharing your bandwidth.