Share your files -- and make money

Prodigem, a BitTorrent service, has recently launched a marketplace that adds a commercial component to file-sharing technology.

Prodigem founder Gary Lerhaupt emails:

The gist is that it allows anyone anywhere to sell their content via bittorrent with Prodigem taking 10% + transaction costs.

If you step back and think about this, it's a huge thing. Imagine the independent bands and movie producers out there with really good content that they've never had a chance to sell online before because it was either too big or too long-tail-y. No longer.

I'm by no means abandoning the free and open media that Prodigem was built from, but want to go this extra separate yard to make things really exciting.

Some screenshots. And an example for-sale torrent -- a 10-minute movie I've made available for 99 cents -- is here.