p2p Texture Sharing a possibility???

Just wanted to ask if there would be a way to decrease the load on the servers by having clients in the same sim linking up and sharing textures from client to client instead of just the Server... That way everyone that has rezzed everything in the SIM already can start sending those textures they have rezzed to other's just coming in... I think this would really speed things up... I mean think about it...

You get a TP to a club... When you get there.. Everyone there has almost all the textures rezzed and your the only one requesting them... BOOM about 20 people starting throttling you textures as well as the server... Within seconds you have rezzed the entire area regardless of SIM Lag or texture size... Make it sort of like a Bit Torrent style p2p sharing technique... Seeds and Peers and the like... I mean it works for Linux and everything else... And the coding would public domain so no overhead costs... Just wanted to get some idea of feasibility... I'm also cross posting this in Feature Ideas...

Heratiki Turnbull

Asking further about this...

While there is merit to this idea, our current bottlenecks for texture loading mostly have to do with end user bandwidth, cpu load required to decode images, and poor caching. Load to our servers is generally not an issue. We are working on improving decoding, caching, and prioritization, which should make a noticable improvement. Unfortunately we have other problems to resolve first, but hopefully we can readdress texture loading late this summer.

-Steve