By gerrywhite@www.drupal.ro on

I’m looking for help, advice and guidance on how to develop a leading edge P2P service which will allow users to earn revenue in return for hosting and distributing commercial and copyrighted materials with the approval of copyright owners.
Requires P2P client, Tracker, modern e-commerce site, media management and search. I was very encouraged to read about http://www.pando.com http://drupal.org/node/114765
I would like to know how much it is possible to create such a platform from existing off the shelf applications?
What expertise is required to build such a service?
What time frames are involved?
What cost?
GW

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sstrudeau commented

First, you may want to check out developers.pando.com, to see the ways you can play with Pando. We (Pando) can definitely handle the p2p file delivery side of the equation. If you have specific questions about how to integrate Pando downloads in to Drupal, don't hesitate to email me at scott AT pando DOT com. There are many ways to do this, and the best way depends on your application.

In terms of your general questions, (expertise, time frames, cost) ... that depends on way too many factors to answer here. It depends on what you want to do and who you hire to build it. The good news is the p2p side is easy with Pando.

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Markus Sandy commented

SpinXpress provides p2p file sharing, searching for licensed media and media publishing services. We have integrated our publishing tool with sites like Ourmedia.org and blip.tv. Ourmedia is a Drupal site that utilizes the Internet Archive for media hosting. I am a developer for both Ourmedia and SpinXpress and I am interested in services for collaborative media production teams. You can find an active discussion around this here.

Skill wise, we also use Java and Eclipse (SWT mainly) for our desktop client. Lots of XHTML, CSS, AJAX, PHP, SQL, Apache, etc. On the Drupal side, we started with 4.6 and now use 5.1 for newer projects. Organic groups has been an important tool. We also created several custom modules for interfacing with the Internet Archive. I recently attended the Lullabot Scalability and Performance seminar after the Open Source CMS Summit at Yahoo! and that was very informative and useful.

Cost and timeframe are difficult to estimate without a few more details :)

Markus Sandy
Ourmedia.org
SpinXpress.com