The researchers envision an e-commerce model that connects users to a single global market, without any controlling company, network, or bank. “Our platform will provide fast downloads by ensuring sufficient uploads,” explains Johan Pouwelse, an assistant professor at Delft University of Technology and the technical director of Tribler.“ The next generation of peer-to-peer systems will provide an ideal marketplace not just for content, but for bandwidth in general.” The researchers were inspired to use a version of the Tribler video sharing software as a model for an e-commerce system because of such flexibility, speed, and reliability. Unlike traditional, centralized approaches, peer-to-peer systems are incredibly robust, as they can scale smoothly since the software adjusts to the number and behavior of individual users. "Peer-to-peer has received a bad rap, however, because of its frequent association with illegal music or software downloads.” Loeb Associate Professor of the Natural Sciences at Harvard. Thus, they are both efficient and powerful computational and economic systems,” says David Parkes, John L. “Successful peer-to-peer systems rely on designing rules that promote fair sharing of resources amongst users. The software exploits the power of peer-to-peer technology, which is based on forming networks among individual users.
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The application (available for free download at ) is an enhanced version of a program called Tribler, originally created by scientists at the Delft University of Technology and Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam to study video file sharing. Aug- Computer scientists at Harvard's School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, in collaboration with colleagues from the Netherlands, are using a novel peer-to-peer video sharing application to explore a next-generation model for safe and legal electronic commerce that uses Internet bandwidth as a global currency.
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