The client encrypts by default and the hub never does: what the hub
manages is who may decrypt. A team is a named set of member keys with a
scope over the owner's swarms; the hub, as keeper, issues grants to
members when the owner is offline, with invitations that expire, roles,
an audit trail, and re-encryption on removal so the next version is
closed to whoever left. A few seats are free; above that the hub charges
per seat and per organisation, settled through the same pay plugins as
everything else. Seeding is priced at disk; access is where a hub earns,
and both sides earn: seeders rent disk, requesters sell access.
Public is not a fallback. Encryption off is an explicit act, and a
public swarm is attested, listed, kept and rendered exactly as a private
one is; the only difference is who can read it.
Every swarm on the market carries a README.md at its root, no
exceptions, and the attestation carries its Markdown and the hash of
the copy inside the swarm, so the hub renders it as the swarm's page
without a key. Relative links resolve into the swarm and are gated the
way the files are.
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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.
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OpenSwarm pays a seeder per verified piece served, and nothing pays anyone
to stay. An archive, a backup, a dataset waiting for its buyer or a
podcast's back catalogue earns nothing the month nobody downloads it, so
it dies the way every swarm always has. And nothing in BitTorrent says who
put a swarm there or whether they were allowed to, which is why a seeder
is presumed to be doing something wrong.
pay2seed is the member document for both halves. An attestation, signed
at upload with a fixed basis (own, licensed, open-license, public-domain,
personal) and a notice endpoint, is what a hub requires before it will
list anything; public claims get a claim window and a standing, and a
notice voids them. An offer escrows a budget at an ippay hub for a swarm,
public or private, to be held by M seeders for N days at a price per
GiB-month, bought over x402 exactly as a pass is. Seeders take leases,
prove each period by storage challenge or by a probe over the ordinary
wire, and are paid through the payee they already have. Public feeds ride
on ipdb; ipfile.pin on c0mpute is the same offer on the auction.
Also: the family table, stack diagram and registry rows; the ip seed
command group; PRD 0006; the protocol row on /openswarm.
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