Split pay2seed into client and server halves, and add pay2stream and paid2stream

The rule is now in the names. pay2* is the client protocol: the side that
pays, over HTTPS, and plays. paid2* is the server protocol: the BitTorrent
side that earns. One hub implements both halves of a pair; a requester or
viewer implements only pay2*; a seeder, relay or gateway only paid2*.

pay2seed keeps consent, offers, the requester's market and notices.
paid2seed takes leases, storage challenges and probes over the wire,
GiB-month accrual and receipts, the seeder client, and the ipfile.pin
mapping.

pay2stream and paid2stream do the same for a live channel over iplive.
A broadcaster attests the channel (with the two rules that separate a
licensed rebroadcast from a stolen feed), buys relays by the hour, and
publishes listings; viewers buy tickets. Relays take leases and are
proven present by a verifier that pulls segments as a peer; a gateway is
a relay that also serves standard HLS, clear or sealed, with the M3U and
XMLTV pair every IPTV app asks for, so VLC, TiviMate, Kodi and a
television play a paid swarm with nothing installed. Ace Stream showed
BitTorrent can carry live TV to millions; this is that with consent,
payment and an open spec.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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@ -34,7 +34,10 @@ a different product. The member protocols keep their `ip` names.
| `ipvideo` | Video on demand on `ipfile` swarms: CMAF renditions, segment index, subtitles, thumbnails | [`ipvideo.md`](./openswarm/ipvideo.md) |
| `iplive` | Live streams: segment fan-out over peers, paid relays, backpressure | [`iplive.md`](./openswarm/iplive.md) |
| `ipname` | How a Moshpit name resolves to a publisher key and a catalogue | [`ipname.md`](./openswarm/ipname.md) |
| `pay2seed` | Consent at upload, seed offers with escrowed budgets, leases, proof of seeding, the seed market | [`pay2seed.md`](./openswarm/pay2seed.md) |
| `pay2seed` | Client protocol for paid seeding: consent at upload, seed offers with escrowed budgets, the requester's market | [`pay2seed.md`](./openswarm/pay2seed.md) |
| `paid2seed` | Server protocol for paid seeding: leases, storage challenges and probes over the wire, GiB-month settlement, the seeder client | [`paid2seed.md`](./openswarm/paid2seed.md) |
| `pay2stream` | Client protocol for paid live streams: consent for channels, relay offers, tickets and listings, watching as a peer or on any HLS player | [`pay2stream.md`](./openswarm/pay2stream.md) |
| `paid2stream` | Server protocol for paid live streams: relay leases per hour, presence proofs, gateways serving standard HLS, M3U and EPG | [`paid2stream.md`](./openswarm/paid2stream.md) |
Supporting documents:
@ -51,8 +54,10 @@ Supporting documents:
| ipaudio ipvideo iplive ipdb (catalogue) |
| releases titles channels feeds, entries |
+---------------------------------------------------------------+
| pay2seed: attestation, offers, leases, challenges, market |
+---------------------------------------------------------------+
| pay2seed / paid2seed | pay2stream / paid2stream |
| consent, offers, market | consent, relay offers, tickets |
| leases, challenges, payout | leases, presence, HLS gateways |
+------------------------------+--------------------------------+
| ipfile: manifest, per-file key pair, encrypted pieces, |
| key grants, credit window, vouchers per served piece |
+-------------------------------+-------------------------------+
@ -135,12 +140,19 @@ serves more than the window unpaid.
Its head is a BEP 44 mutable item under the feed key, so any DHT node can find
the latest catalogue of any publisher with one `get`.
**One seed market.** A `pay2seed` offer is money escrowed at a hub for a
swarm to be kept for a period, public or private, and it cannot be listed
without a signed attestation of who put the data there and on what basis.
Seeders take leases, prove they hold and serve the pieces every period, and
are paid per GiB-month. It is how a torrent client becomes a legitimate file
sharer: consent on the way in, proof on the way out, and a payout for staying.
**One seed market, one stream market.** A `pay2seed` offer is money
escrowed at a hub for a swarm to be kept for a period, public or private,
and it cannot be listed without a signed attestation of who put the data
there and on what basis. On the `paid2seed` side, seeders take leases,
prove they hold and serve the pieces every period, and are paid per
GiB-month. `pay2stream` and `paid2stream` do the same for a live channel:
a broadcaster attests it and buys relays by the hour, relays and gateways
prove they are online and serving, and a gateway turns the swarm into
standard HLS so any television plays it. The naming is the rule: `pay2*`
is the client protocol, the side that pays over HTTPS; `paid2*` is the
server protocol, the BitTorrent side that earns. It is how a torrent
client becomes a legitimate file sharer: consent on the way in, proof on
the way out, and a payout for staying.
## What it does not define