Peer to Peer: Collaboration and Sharing over the Internet

Mojo Nation

While networks such as Gnutella are “free” in all senses of the word, Mojo Nation takes the approach that network resources to support free distributed content should always be valued and traded, if only in a virtual sense. The rationale is that a demand-driven “market economy” can self-regulate a network and avoid issues such as overloading or the oft-cited “tragedy of the commons” freeloader problem that some claim will mean the end of free networks such as Gnutella.

Mojo Nation was free in that the public prototype network didn’t require cash payments; the internal economy was virtual—on the other hand, some licensed commercial solutions could have technical support for business deployment. As the former (see the MNnet section) ...