I’m not sure what they would use to finance the buyback. They have little use for a movie nobody wants, and the whole point of the P2P system is to avoid having a lot of infrastructure for sending movies in and out of HQ. Might as well just “store” them with either the last user (if trusted not to cheat) or of course send them back to the original contributor, who after all has the case and liked the movie enough to buy it anyway.

One other problem that’s hard to solve here is the use of discarded disks from rental stores. I’m not saying it’s bad to contribute used DVDs, in fact that’s the way you should enter Peerflix. But some of the DVDs sold by Blockbuster have been through a heavy rental life and while they’re fine for a collection which will get a few viewings, I don’t know if they are ready for a continued trading life. I think buying them on eBay from ordinary owners makes a lot of sense, of course you could be getting them from video stores on eBay and not know it.