Free Riding on Gnutella Revisited: The Bell Tolls?

By D. Hughes, G. Coulson, J. Walkerdine. IEEE Distributed Syst. Online, 2005

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Subfields: Computer Networks and Communications

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Citations in the corpus

• Crowdsourcing, attention and productivity (2008, neutral): “The dilemma ensues when every individual can reason this way and free ride on the efforts of others, making everyone worse off [1, 3, 7, 5, 10].”
• Overcoming free-riding behavior in peer-to-peer systems (2005, background): “In 2005, [Hughes et al., 2005] found free-riders have increased to 85% of all Gnutella users.”
• A survey of trust in social networks (2013, background): “Mollering 2002; Molm et al. 2000], psychology [Rotter 1967; Cook et al. 2005], economics [Granovetter 1985; Huang 2007], and computer science [Maheswaran et al. 2007; Hughes et al. 2005].”
• An Empirical Examination of the Antecedents and Consequences of Contribution Patterns in Crowd-Funded Markets (2013, positive): “Subsequent work on Gnutella, conducted a few years later, found that this behavior had only grown more prevalent over the intervening period (Hughes et al. 2005).”