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Good on you

You just described Peer Impact

http://www.peerimpact.com/

Peer Impact did'nt have any trouble getting Fox signed up to offer Movies or TV shows on thier p2p platform .

But Rupurt Murdock gets along with the executives at Wurld Media ,Peer Impacts owners .

http://www.peerimpact.com/

Wurld Media's Peer Impact has the bussiness model that you guys are asking for .

If you re-distribute content on the Peer impact network you recive a system credit for your contributed upload bandwidth .Peer Impact will soon have Movies and Video from NBC\Universal for rent and sale . Peer Impact sells games and music from the major lables and indies .They currently only support Windows but may in the future a web based client of thier service .

http://www.peerimpact.com/

http://www.peerimpact.com/ They've been doing this for over a year now.

P2P distribution for content that can be digitized will be more prevalent in the next few years .P2P can deliver digital content more efficiently and faster than Walmart ever can to your directly to your home Home .

Movies ,Music and Games are already being delivered by P2P and the range of content will continue this year.

Peer Impact a pay p2p network is launching version 3.0 of their client this month and will have video and movies from NBC\Universal for rent and sale. vThey currently sell Music from the 4 major labels and indies (indie music is Mp3) and Games from Try Media .

http://www.peerimpact.com/

The My Little Pony roleplay game already exists my 2 duaghters who are both under 10 years old hijack dads computer to play it on a regular basis .

http://extcmd.peerimpact.com/piactivex.html?piextc ommand=activate_noisemaker&affiliate-id=1124&produ ct-id=623469&media-type=games

Peer Impact is a walled garden p2p network that only distributes authorised content across its network it is taking the opisite route to Limewire and has aquired licences from the record labels that allow its users to re-disribute content they purchase through the network and user recive a system credit for thier upload bandwith .

Most comercial p2p companies and thier investors are looking to monetise thier product without lawsuits or revenue from adware and spyware It looks like Peer impact has beat them to the punch and has a compelling bussiness model based on superdistribution .

http://www.peerimpact.com/

http://www.peerimpact.com/

Bram may be getting cosy with Hollywwod but
LX Systems http://www.lxsystems.com/ has already beaten him with ther Peer Impact p2p client http://www.peerimpact.com/ that has all the music labels signed up inluding the major indies and the big 4 of Sony\BMG ,Warner Music,EMI and Universal Music .They are also adding games and in negotiations with the Studios to have video content on the network .

To clarify, Peer Impact isn't owned or operated by the RIAA; they only licensed the music. At that, they are also trying to sign independent artists/labels.

I joined when they first opened up the beta and spent some time on the chat room they used to have (it used Jabber[!]). The engineers were in there and happy to discuss the technology or answer any questions.
As far as downloading and sharing, you can only share files that originally came from their servers. When someone purchases a song, the Peer Impact server chooses the clients to download from based on bandwidth, proximity, etc. When someone downloads from you, your earnings are based on how much you contributed to the download. To note, all downloads are priced the same regardless of the size.

I stopped using it after I spent my free money and moved behind a firewall. I usually made $0.01-$0.05 each time someone downloaded part of a song from me. It took a few weeks for me to make the $0.99 for a free download, but your mileage will vary on how many songs you're sharing, how fast your connection, your location, if you're behind a firewall, and some other stuff. It's worth trying out; at the least you get 5 free DRM'd songs.

(As accused in a later post, PI states how it isn't like an MLM here.

How can you expect mass-adoption if you don't even support the media player with the largest market share?

From the PeerImpact website:


Q: What can I do with the music that I buy on Peer Impact?

A: You can store your music in your Peer Impact(TM) Library, burn the music to a CD, or transfer it to a portable device. Peer Impact enables all of the same flexibility as the popular pay services with a very unique twist; you can now share that music with other members to earn Peer Cash(TM).


That's about as good/bad as iTunes; except you don't get direct iPod support. All the geeks I know can rip from a CD and then use the tracks for whatever [legal] purposes they want.

With projects like Peer Impact currently in beta (record industry approved P2P merchant system), does the RIAA still maintain it's anti-P2P stance?

Peer Impact is a proprietary, patent-pending business model

From their FAQ.

Is Peer Impact available outside the U.S.?
No. Due to licensing restrictions, Peer Impact is currently available to U.S. residents only.

Peer Impact File sharing FAQ

The application is called Peer Impact[www.peerimpact.com].