Doug Kaye has written a great whitepaper on “swarming” P2P content distribution systems, where a file’s availbility in a network increases as a function of its demand — if traditional client-server is a Tragedy of the Commons where the most valuable resources’ availablity dwindles away to zero, P2P CDNs are a Commons where the sheep shit grass, where the act of consuming a resource actually increases its availability. Here’s the PDF of Doug’s paper — nice work, Doug!LinkDiscuss