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/

Peer Impact is an independent service based in Saratoga Springs,New York so you can imagine the challenges they have in getting content from Hollywood.Remember Cinemanow and Movielink are owned by the Studios and are not p2p .

The TV shows have been a disappointment with only 4 TV series available at this time .I hope that is fixed next year as Peer Impact moves forward .

As for movies I hope Peer Impact becomes the Netflix of movies because they have a great distribution system and a killer business model .

People wont use p2p to distribute commerical content unless they get somthing back .With Peer Impact they get a system credit everytime they upload a piece of content they have purchased .

In the case of games users can receive a system credit on Game Demos they have download if someone decides to purchase that game at a later date .

Free content dos'nt receive a system credit but you get what I call "Karma" and the Peer impact algorithm makes sure you get a slight preference when it is choosing sources for a download of paid content .

I need a new Camera