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Overcoming the Network Effects?

Posted by Cliff on 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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  1. You contradict yourself by whoda · · Score: 5, Insightful
    You say: "Which means no censorship, no entry taxes, no one booting you off the network, and no weak point which can break the whole system."

    Then at the end you state: "In particular, if you try to share snuff or child pornography, I will be able to work out you IP and from that your location and identity. And I will report you to the police."

    So, which is it? P2P with no censorship, no booting, or P2P With censorship and booting?