P2P: From File Sharing to Meta-information Pooling

Eric Dagiral and Florian Dauphin

MPRA Paper from University Library of Munich, Germany

Abstract: P2P networks have mainly been used for downloading cultural goods. This sociological research focuses on the practices and norms of users and designers. Drawing on a qualitative survey, it explores the many ways sharing takes place. It looks at P2P networks as file sharing communities and probes the underpinnings of such file sharing. This article particularly scrutinizes the way in which users are brought together in communities founded on exploration and discovery. The latest developments seem to point towards a type of community chiefly based on exchanging meta-information.

Keywords: P2P; file sharing; online communities; meta-information; cultural goods; MP3 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D43 H42 K21 L41 L43 L51 L96 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2005-09
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Published in International Journal of Digital Economics 59 (2005): pp. 35-51

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