Overcoming the Network Effects?

Posted by Cliff on Thursday May 30, 2002 @03:45AM from the this-is-a-job-for-*gasp*-marketing dept.

paul_harrison asks: "I am trying to introduce a new P2P protocol. It's technically superior in several respects to existing protocols, but there's one big problem: too few people using it. Now this is not a new problem, there's even a name for it, "Network Effect". It crops up all over the place: which websites become popular, which formats and protocols people use, which operating systems people use, even which side of the road people drive on... So my question is this: how do things like these overcome network effects and become popular?"

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No contradiction at all... by damiangerous · 2002-05-30 04:38 · Score: 4, Informative

No one has the ability to remove you from the network, or control ("censor") what you share. However, you are not completely anonymous on the network, and if you share something illict you can be found if someone really wants to (which this fellow apparently does).