As I was getting constantly bumped from the Marketplace and XBL Arcade servers yesterday, I thought of a brilliant idea that Microsoft needs to adopt – not just for E3 content, but if they want to deliver any substantial content in the near future.

That idea is BitTorrent.

How difficult would it be to implement a peer-to-peer protocol that would use clients to seed the content throughout the network? Obviously Microsoft wouldn’t want to monopolize Joe Schmoe’s bandwidth, so there could be restrictions, like it couldn’t access seeds unless that client was:

• At the 360 Dashboard, and;
• Was not utlizing any bandwidth-dependent functions, such as voice or video chat.

Other than that, if the client has a file, it should be able to become a seed. Obviously the main XBL servers would need to be accessed to verify the purchase of premium content, as well as host the master content catalog. But once a client requests something from that catalog, it will search the network for seeds.

This would have solved my problem yesterday, since everyone was basically downloading the same stuff (Halo 3 trailer, UNO).

There you go, Microsoft. Feel free to use this, my only payment would be to be invited as a corporate guest for next year’s E3. Easy enough – that can be written off, right? Now let’s make it happen!