Reward-based Peer-to-Peer Digital Cinema Distribution Model

We propose making use of peer-to-peer technology to distribute electrical contents. The conventional peer-to-peer (P2P) technology encounters the problem that each peer has no incentive to advertise or sell other peers the content. We propose a reward-based P2P content distribution model, in which peers obtain rewards according to their selling activities. In addition, we compare two systems: one is a perfectly traceable system in which each peer has a complete knowledge regarding the peers who have already been introduced by other peers and who have not yet been introduced. The other is an imperfectly traceable system in which each peer does not know completely. We conclude that perfectly traceable system is efficient and all the peers in the market should be introduced, while imperfectly traceable system is not because of double counting effects. Thus original distributor should terminate the introduction activity before all the peers in the market are introduced