Hi, and some comments
Wei Dai
weidai@eskimo.com
Tue, 27 Feb 2001 17:06:35 -0800
On Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 03:48:20PM -0800, hal@finney.org wrote:
> One problem which MojoNation is running into is that people don't want to
> have to pay to publish.
>
> Most people, when they first hear about MN, understand right away the
> idea of paying mojo to download files. However they assume that this
> means that they will get paid to supply popular files for download.
> This is seen as a way to discourage "leeching" and to encourage people
> to make material available, which has been a problem on networks like
> Gnutella.
Perhaps the problem is that MojoNation is not flexible enough. If each
storage servers can decide for itself exactly what data to store (rather
than a block ID range as in MojoNation), each person can publish on his
own server, like in Napster, and just make money when other people
download. Paying someone else to publish should be necessary only if you
want better reliability (i.e., long term offsite storage).