Monday, August 06, 2012

[ekcskrso] Disliked content and server load

Consider peer-to-peer distribution of content.  Popular content is cached by many others, so your cost of hosting it (server activity and bandwidth) are low.  Unpopular content (a "dislike" button), causes your server to be the only one hosting it, so expensive.

This provides a financial incentive to create good content even with, especially with, P2P.

1 comment :

Anonymous said...

But "popular" is not necessarily "good"!