Submission + - File Sharing advances
sykesm writes: BBC has an interesting article
"I was doing research back in 1999 looking at an obscure website called Slashdot," he said. "It was a technology-related news website controlled by volunteers and it actually worked. A few people would post bad things but 99% of users were nice."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6971904.stm
The team has created a peer-to-peer system called Tribler in which selfless sharers earn faster upload and download speeds but leechers are penalised.