Some ideas: Torrent based commercialism.

Well if you read some of my previous journals about music industry problems. About copyright problems and some other things. Well thing is that I was thinking about few systems and of how they could work.

My thoughts on open source:
Well open source in a good thing in a way. But imagine if all industry were working like that? Don’t know but for me it seems impossible. Something as fake as USSR communisms utopia idea was. It lacks motivation and only works cuz it is based on some capitalism features. I think it is good only in cases when you have something you were doing for fun and can’t continue anymore. So you post it as open source so that it would not die in vain. I know that there are commercial organizations which make their products open source usually for security reasons. And even then commercial use, redistribution, code reuse in other projects are restricted and protected by licenses and law. It all is too complicated, too long, and have many disadvantages.

Some my toughs on knowledge base or something:

So I was thinking how to leave something as motivative and as prestige for initial developers but in same time remove all those disadvantages of copyright/commercial enforced things. And I was looking on to two things:
Recommendation and similarity problems – those are things that are partly researched and used by Google in their search engine. Also check [link]. It is site with user/music similarity search engine and music recommendation engine. You can find alike artists to what you like there and or other listeners who lieke alike music and etc.
Now torrent networks. Some one may not agree but for me it seems that it is the fastest and so most effective way of large information distribution. Plus in trackers many systems and rules were tried to make something like money but based on share ration.

So how would such system work in my vision.
Case one: Developer, researcher, artist
You made some new work that you find to be good. You upload it to such knowledge base. First simmilariy engine starts to work. It starts to analyze your work and look for alike things in its knowledge base. So I made some physics engine. It finds Newton, Euclid and other formulas in my work. It finds that I use Flash AS3. It finds other things I may have used. So it puts this work to my account. Says novelty rating for it. Like I used 50% of knows things and 40% were new but alike solutions exist so novelty is 10%. So now some relations are set for my work. It is marked as redistributors for Euclid and Newton ideas and Adobe Flash ideas redistributors so if my work will gain popularity, download, and so they will get % of my share ratio cuz they were initial makers but I help them to popularazie their inventions and products. My rating will grow with my work popularity too. If someone will use my work as base for something I will get % from them. And so on and on and on.
Case two: User, customer, no developer.
I still have cold start problem here. What does rating mean you may ask. It is money and status equivalent but in this system. You can see only some abstract about works and if you choose to download it you rating goes down but as in torrent system you become a redistribute which helps the system with resources of your machine. And not only allowing other users to download from you what you have downloaded. You may also provide the system with resources of your machine. In what way? You can help it to calculate some small parts of tasks that system solves at analyzing, similarity searching and other alike tasks. So for all that you can get share ratio and status with out being a creative person. But you help the system and developers by popularizing and redistributing their works. So for that you get your share of this.

So as you have noticed it is very alike to modern commercial system. It still has something like money. You can login and take all there is. But you can do it in a way modern society does already breaking modern laws that just not work anymore.
We can imagine new roles in the system. Now redistributors will look for popular portions of data, download them and help to redistribute and gain the potential. Now factories will be represented by people who bought 5 PC in to their home, use 5 separate channels. And provide system with their resources.



Basically it is new and unpolished idea. Help me to polish it and bring to people guys. I think some large organizations like Microsoft or Google may be interested in such ideas and they may be even developed already. Anyways if you like the idea then comment. Add links to it in your blogs and send me link on them. If you will find some articles on this or based on this them comment with the link here too. Or send a note. And of course what do you think about it?