Incentives in Networking

[coderman]

On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 10:30 AM, Rayservers <rayservers at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Incentives in Networking
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> Too long has the community of anonymity software writers ignored the tragedy of
> the commons. If each tor router could advertise a price for amount of megabytes
> transferred, it would be a self healing system.

why is monetary compensation required for fairness? the bittorrent
protocol with tit for tat is far from perfect but it is also the
dominant protocol on the net and encourages fairness without monetary
settlement. there are other examples.

lucre is but one of many incentives, why do you assume it is the only solution?