User:Toussaint/Commons-based peer distribution

Commons-based peer distribution is a term which describes the increasingly-decentralized, increasingly masses-based methods whereby information and other desired goods are hosted and accessed. It is an extension of Yochai Benkler's concept of commons-based peer production, which is centered around the development of goods in non-hierarchical group projects of a collaborative nature, although the viability of either types of commons-based peer projects is dependent on the numbers of participants in the necessary mass collaboration.

In a commons-based peer distribution system, the amount and speed of access to a desired good is dependent upon the number of people who are linked in a continuous network who host the good. Such a method of distribution has mostly been demonstrated in the forms of peer-to-peer file sharingand streaming (including peercasting, P2PTV, and Peer-to-peer SIP).