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Addressing the Non-Cooperation Problem in Competitive P2P Systems Beverly Yang Sepandar Kamvar Hector Garcia-Molina Abstract example, in a pay-per-transaction file-sharing system where peers get paid for uploading files, peers will Large-scale competitive P2P systems are threatened by the non- cooperation problem, where peers do not forward queries to po- want to share files, because this generates income. In tential competitors. While non-cooperation is not a problem in an auction system, where the auction advertisement current P2P free file-sharing systems, it is likely to be a problem is analogous to a query and bids analogous to query in such P2P systems as pay-per-transaction file-sharing systems, responses, peers will want to submit bids. Even P2P auctions, and P2P service discovery systems, where peers in a free file-sharing system where users share their are in competition with each other to provide services. Here, we motivate why non-cooperation is likely to be a problem in these original music or artwork, users have an incentive to types of networks and present an economic protocol to address share the files in order to increase their publicity. this problem. This protocol, called the RTR protocol, is based In each of the systems described above, not only on the buying and selling of the right-to-respond (RTR) to each are peers eager to provide services (e.g. share files), query in the system. but they are in competition with other peers to pro- vide their services. Compe