Steve Schear writes: > Why not have each individual's PC which offered to lend do the > accounting. This means their PC must be on-line whenever someone who > didn't pay wants to listen, limiting the number of copies available, but it > could be fully decentralized.
You'd have to piggyback this on some P2P app. Otherwise, the lender would have to run an accessable server. That can be a trick if you're behind a NAT or your ISP takes exception to unsolicited incoming packets. Also, how do you handle check-in, or more importantly, lack of check-in? Timeout? Can you queue checkout requests? Interesting idea, but it sounds kind of cumbersome to roll out. -- Roy M. Silvernail is [EMAIL PROTECTED], and you're not http://www.rant-central.com is the new scytale Never Forget: It's Only 1's and 0's! SpamAssassin->procmail->/dev/null->bliss