As with P2P, some resources can be easily deployed to meet increased demand and some cannot. The Web is a big, glorious mess of unstructured, unlabeled data of every possible flavor. Now is the time to adopt some metadata standards that will allow P2P to become truly interoperable. Forget about it. No, says Clay Shirky, and that's why freeriding is a non-issue.
Trouble is, there's no trouble.
P2P is not a Tragedy of the Digital Commons, it's a Cornucopia. And What Isn't by Clay Shirky P2P is not about computers acting as peers, writes Clay Shirky. It's about peers operating on the edge of the Internet, a place where IP addresses are transitory and connectivity is intermittent. Inc. All Rights Reserved. All trademarks and registered trademarks appearing on the O'Reilly Network are the property of their respective owners.