Bittorrent Client that pays Ether based off popularity of downloads?

AstralMountainMan

Also pays users for distributing the file but at substantially less? Or maybe have a music color coin?

Just stoking the fires

StephanTual

Or to motivate the nodes to seed, getting paid per download/byte transferred.

Kanga

It would certainly give me an incentive to seed past 100%.

Perhaps release groups could create contracts that issue a unit as a reward for seeding their releases. The unit could then be spent to prioritize bandwidth.

I'm not entirely sure if the latter could be implemented through the current Bit-torrent protocol.

If not, maybe we will see a bitttorent 2.0 protocol.