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An Empirical Analysis of Network Externalities in Peer-To-Peer Music Sharing Networks

2003; RELX Group (Netherlands); Linguagem: Inglês

10.2139/ssrn.433780

1556-5068

Atip Asvanund, Karen Clay, Ramayya Krishnan, Michael D. Smith,

Auction Theory and Applications

Peer-to-peer file sharing networks are becoming an important medium for the distribution of information goods. However, there is little academic research into the optimal design of these networks under real-world conditions. Our research represents an initial effort to analyze the impact of positive and negative network externalities on the optimal size of these P2P networks. Our analysis uses a unique dataset collected from the six most popular OpenNap peer-to-peer networks between December 19, 2000 and April 22, 2001.