I was thinking of doing everything over the web. There are 2 approaches I can see (keeping in mind I'm not actually able to get to a computer that has any of this software installed until monday, and as such am operating from a very faulty memory); approach 1 the user could put the IP address of the public node into bryce lightening / rendercow, your computer would just use my farm as a supernode. I would have to write some code, but nothing too nasty. approach 2 (what I was pretty much think on doing) would be for me to allow people to set up virtual machines on a main server, and launch the render process local to me. in niether approach do I see a major copyright issue. Under no circumstances would I be interested in this if I had to actually touch a user CD; web only. everything else would get into too many legal issues. I guess I could set it up for people to mail me a encrypted drive image on DVD, which they could then mount over the internet if bandwidth was an issue. As to previous discussions, I see quite a bit about people setting up their own personal farms, but nothing on a public one. link?