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What about combining free music with some kind of attention / reputation economy that Zbigniew talks about. Basically Kazaa with a voting button?  

Anyone who likes the music that's downloaded can signal approval. In fact, maybe approval is automatically signalled if the user downloads several tracks by an artist. Or approval goes to a curator of a playlist when someone downloads several tracks from that playlist.  

Now imagine this is part of a larger approval economy. So that approval points can be spent elsewhere ... eg. on getting certain kinds of online service. Maybe if I host a lot of approved music, I can use my approval points to "buy" hosting space. 

I'd hope by now that 99% could already be found out there in other free P2P and reputation management projects :  

Social networking software might fit in here in several ways.  

* it can help people find other people who are giving gifts (eg. music, writings) which you can fonate approval points to 

* it can help prevent cheating. If the network is based on connections of "I trust this person to give fair approval", then approval which only flow through this type of link are likely to be legitimate.  

On the other hand, there may also be some crossover with mark-up in blogs. And positive and negative voting. See for example :  

http://blog.blogware.com/blog/_archives/2003/11/1/5505.html  

Maybe points can be earned from spontaneous approval on blogs.  

Big problem, even when when points are given in good faith, how do you stop inflation?  


PhilJones


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Yes - this is all very close.  I hope this would generate some synergy.  What I am investigating is how to do it without any central authority - just in a P2P network.

ZbigniewLukasiak