Matt

Dont ever buy jason Rohers games just pirate them .

Jason created the "anonymous" p2p program MUTE and wrote this piece about Free Distribution in 2004 i wonder now he is actully making money by being a game developer if his philosophy has changed .

http://hcsoftware.sourceforge.net/jason-rohrer/freeDistribution.html

Ive been Naughty and Nice

How about Peer Impact that gives its end users up to a 5% system credit for uploading data on thier closed p2p network .

http:\www.peerimpact.com

This creates an incentive for users to leave their clients open and resources available to the network .

Mark does have venture capital in Red Swoosh.... a p2p company

Jason I hope you asked the guy who made the PEZ MP3 Player to take a look at your little project Hes an independant developer who works out of his basement .The type of guy who would be interested in such a project and has done it before .

http://www.pezmp3.com/

http://helmetmp3.com

http://lincolnwest.com/

Its already been Cracked becuse Bittorent plan on using Microsoft DRM .

http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/25/fairuse4wm-strips-windows-media-drm/V

they could also market this as a sex toy

Wurld Media the owners of Peer Impact also have a simmilar published patent that describes a simmilar incentive scheme .

http://v3.espacenet.com/textdoc?DB=EPODOC&IDX=WO2005038617&F=0

And here is the Incentive Scheme in action
http://www.peerimpact.com

Walmart may be one of thefew companioes that can force the studios to lower thier prices and create a Netflix style download service .

Walmart currently provides about 45% of the Movie studios total revenue ....just in DVD sales .

Jason this guy made a Limited edition PEZ MP3 player last year that sold out and now hes signed a deal with Hasbro and is selling College Football Helmet MP3 player thats the size of a Golf ball .

http://www.lincolnwest.com/

The Pat Misterovich owns the company that makes these is a stay at home dad who runs the company himself funded only by a family loan and a bank loan .

Im sure you got a nice package from AOL just like Justin Frankel did so go for it

Justin as you probaly know wants to make Music hardware also and even made some prototypes of his Jesussonic guitar pedals ....http://www.jesusonic.com/