What if BitTorrent had a token?
In the BitTorrent protocol strategy "service for service" from game theory which encourages users is used to distribute files to other users after downloading. But if you use torrents, then could notice several moments:
- most of users close a torrent client and stop distribution as soon as download the file necessary to them;
- older files are almost not distributed;
- people share pirated content just to share.
That, if …
- continuing distribution of files after downloading, you would get access to rare content in the future and increased the speed of downloading of files for yourself;
- the companies invested time and money in making torrents fast and available for a long time;
- could you earn money, sharing rare and interesting other users content?
Distributing content, users earn tokens, and downloading – spend. How new users will be able to join system and to download content, without having tokens?
Such approach would be quite justified for downloading of popular files. The new user can agree to take tokens on credit, to download the small, but seldom found file fragment, then to distribute him to other users and thus to cover the sum of the credit and to earn missing tokens. Will download less popular files more risky. Perhaps, it is necessary to give the credit from the tokens earned from future distribution of more popular files.
Many closed trackers establish the minimum coefficient of the relation distributed to downloaded for users. Accounts at which the number of downloads exceeds the number of the distributed megabytes twice are blocked. The closed trackers have a number of advantages:
On the closed trackers often there is rare content which can't be found any more anywhere.
Participants quickly exchange qualitative content and help to filter bad content. New musical albums often appear on them in day of release, and episodes of popular TV-shows without commercial breaks are loaded there less, than in an hour after display on TV.
Downloading speed on them is much higher as the bigger number of users takes part in distribution of the file.
When people join the closed trackers, they appreciate the account and don't want that it was blocked. Some users rent for the period of a sidboksa to have "the buffer of loadings". Usually owners of sidboks purposefully and quickly download and distribute popular a torrent files by means of high-speed servers. Using сидбокс within several weeks, it is possible to distribute in 10 times more megabyte, than it has been downloaded. So, it is possible not to worry about the rating on a tracker within several years after use of a sidboks.
Wars for high-speed distribution of data can be presented in the form of the market on which the high speed of distribution will become goods. Need of storage of files will be the reverse of the medal. As the option, each new torrent file can be estimated by the following criterion:
Whether this content is a little popular that nobody will distribute it within a year, but at the same time rather known that somebody has wanted to download it in the next years?
The episode of "Game of Thrones" doesn't approach under this parameter as he is so popular that others with high probability will distribute him within a year. The boring home video also doesn't approach as hardly someone will want to download it. And here something like comments of the director will be ideal for the movie "Princess-bride"; the movie is too popular, but comments of the director aren't so known. At the same time they can be of value for some admirers of the movie.
Storage of files can manage absolutely cheap, especially if to keep them once and further to address them no more than several times. At Amazon Glacier cost is of $0,004/GB a month. That is, in 10 years of storage of the standard movie the total amount of payment will be only $0.336.
BitTorrent can lead to disappearance of the closed torrent trackers. The secret of their success is that participants load on them high-quality content which appears on open torrents only much later if appears in general. Downloading of files from the closed torrents one of the first to lay out them on open trackers, will be in the easy way to earn tokens.
