Salt for the Internet
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P2P le-sharing tools such as Napster or KaZaA allow the easy distribution of les, mostly music in the form of MP3s, much to the dismay of the record industry as well as of individual artists who fear massive losses of their revenues. With the enforcement of copyright infringement laws, which has alread lead to the temporary shut down of Napster, signs are that the future of P2P le-sharing tools is at stake. In this paper we explore an alternative usage scenario of P2P networks, centered around the idea of creating a trading community with its own currency. These so-called alternative currencies or local exchange trading systems share much in common with the P2P philosophy in that they trade goods or services for equivalent goods or services. We show that this application area features a number of properties di erent from conventional le-sharing tools.
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