A new analysis of free riding on the Gnutella network updates data from 2000 and points to an increasing downgrade in the network's overall performance and the emergence of a "metatragedy" of the commons.
In a recent work REF Hughes et al. pointed to an increasing downgrade in the network's overall performance due to free riding.
Free Riding on Gnutella Revisited: The Bell Tolls
IEEE Distributed Systems Online
Computer Science