Comparing economic incentives in peer-to-peer networks

Antoniadis, Panayotis; Courcoubetis, Costas; Mason, Robin

doi:10.1016/j.comnet.2004.03.021

Cited by 93 publications

(79 citation statements)

References 7 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Unclassified

Order By: Relevance

“…Second, many studies have shown that heavy users of p2p …le sharing networks are more prone to purchase content online. 2 Our framework not only suggests that there is no contradiction in this observed behavior, but also sheds light on the factors that explain the demand for online content in the presence of a p2p network. Third, we provide insights on content pricing and the e¤ectiveness of industry initiatives such as suing heavy sharers.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 65%

See 1 more Smart Citation

Peer-to-Peer File Sharing and the Market for Digital Information Goods

Casadesus-Masanell

Hervas-Drane

2009

SSRN Journal

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

We study competitive interaction between two alternative models of digital content distribution over the Internet: peer-to-peer (p2p) …le sharing and centralized client-server distribution.We present microfoundations for a stylized model of p2p …le sharing where all peers are endowed with standard preferences and show that the endogenous structure of the network is conducive to sharing by a signi…cant number of peers, even if sharing is costlier than freeriding. We build on this model of p2p to analyze the optimal strategy of a pro…t-maximizing …rm, such as Apple, that o¤ers content available at positive prices. We characterize the size of the p2p network as a function of the …rm's pricing strategy, and show that the …rm may be better o¤ setting high prices, allowing the network to survive, and that the p2p network may work more e¢ ciently in the presence of the …rm than in its absence.

show abstract

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 65%

“…Altruistic agents, for example, realize a direct bene…t from contributing content. Golle et al [14] and Antoniadis et al [2] consider agents that derive utility from contributing content to the network. Feldman et al [13] explicitly consider agent types which di¤er in their willingness to contribute.…”

Section: Literaturementioning

confidence: 99%

Peer-to-Peer File Sharing and the Market for Digital Information Goods

Casadesus-Masanell

Hervas-Drane

2009

SSRN Journal

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…Many subsequent studies have examined the public good aspect of P2P networks. 5 In particular, Krishnan, Smith, Tang, and Telang (2004), Antoniadis, Courcoubetis, and Mason (2004), and Antoniadis, Courcoubetis, and Strulo (2005) find that the equilibrium level of sharing is below the social optimum and propose variations of soft incentive schemes to reduce free-riding. Other papers that study soft incentive schemes include Buragohain, Agrawal, and Suri (2003), Kamvar, Schlosser, and GarciaMolina (2003), Habib andChuang (2006), Feldman, Papadimitriou, Chuang, andStoica (2006), and Van der Schaar and Turaga (2008).…”

Section: Related Literaturementioning

confidence: 99%

“…6 An exception is Antoniadis, Courcoubetis, and Mason (2004). In this paper each peer's private information is his preference parameter (type), whereas in our paper a peer's type is determined by the number of files he has.…”

Section: Related Literaturementioning

confidence: 99%

Incentive Schemes in Peer-to-Peer Networks

Loginova

Wang

2009

The B.E. Journal of Theoretical Economics

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

In this paper we study the optimal file-sharing mechanism in a peer-to-peer network with a mechanism design perspective. This mechanism improves upon existing incentive schemes. In particular, we show that peer-approved scheme is never optimal and service-quality scheme is optimal only under certain circumstances. Moreover, we find that the optimal mechanism can be implemented by a mixture of peer-approved and service-quality schemes.JEL Classification: D82, C72

show abstract

“…Several proposals based on such domain model have been introduced [24][25][26][27][28][29][30]. Furthermore, other approaches to build effective incentives schemes are based on the Mechanism Design (MD) and Distributed Algorithmic Mechanism Design (DAMD) [31] concepts.…”

Section: Background and Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

FairPeers: Efficient Profit Sharing in Fair Peer-to-Peer Market Places

Ruffo

Schifanella

2007

J Netw Syst Manage

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

The technical impact of the Peer-to-Peer (P2P) paradigm on content distribution applications has been proved successful and efficient, when participants cooperation is achieved. Conversely, the business model is not clear: given a copyprotected object, its owner must be paid back for each transaction taking place from a provider to a receiver. The P2P paradigm assumes that a receiver turns into a provider, but it is questionable why she/he should provide properly the content, if the owner wants to be reimbursed. Actual systems introduce fairness, giving incentives (e.g., a differential service, like in BitTorrent) to altruistic peers, with the consequence that the owner of an object is economically damaged everyday. Hence, music and film industry sees P2P techniques as a hostile framework for distributing copy protected content for free: today's answer of the industry is investing in DRMbased solutions, that are not interoperable between different devices and players. In this paper, we present FairPeers, a P2P market framework, that joins a straightforward intellectual property protection and a fair economic model by maintaining the efficiency typical of P2P file sharing systems. The study is completed with an exhaustive security analysis, and the description of a prototype implementation that shows that the P2P paradigm is mature enough to present to the broadest community new revenue models, simply using available tools and state-of-the-art techniques.

show abstract

Comparing economic incentives in peer-to-peer networks

Cited by 93 publications

References 7 publications

Peer-to-Peer File Sharing and the Market for Digital Information Goods

Peer-to-Peer File Sharing and the Market for Digital Information Goods

Incentive Schemes in Peer-to-Peer Networks

FairPeers: Efficient Profit Sharing in Fair Peer-to-Peer Market Places

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About