if anyone has ever downloaded and used "Radio Free Virgin" (a free Internet radio app from Virgin Records), you know that they use the same technology. By default, listeners also act as "relay" stations for other listeners, to help keep the bandwidth requirements low at Virgin's own servers. They've been doing that over 2 years by now, and with some mods, it would also work with Gnutella.

HOWEVER. This is not the same as what Unregistered (don't know if the Unregistered poster is the same one) suggested before, regarding "anonymous" file sharing by utilizing download pipes. Why not? This is relay streaming is trackable - in fact, it must be trackable in order to keep the stream quality up.