Re:Well... I hope I'll be able to bill them. (Score 1)

The article quoted Kazaa's EULA:

However, people who accept "terms of service" already distributed with Brilliant's and Kazaa's software are already agreeing to let their computers be used without any payment at all.

"You hereby grant (Brilliant) the right to access and use the unused computing power and storage space on your computer/s and/or Internet access or bandwidth for the aggregation of content and use in distributed computing," the terms of service read. "The user acknowledges and authorizes this use without the right of compensation."

So nope, looks like they won't. It mentioned compensation in the way of gift certificates or free videos.

Personally I think this technology is great, but that the end users should absolutely be paid for the contribution. If Brilliant Networks is going to collect money from corporations to farm out idle CPU cycles then the owners of the CPUs that do the work should get the majority of the money. I would think it would be acceptable to allow for a small percentage to go to Brilliant they are performing a service for the end users, similar to a media agent really.

Jim