Wednesday, November 3, 2010

Are there certain products or services that just CAN NOT be generated with Commons-Based Peer Production methodologies? Why or why not?

I believe that all products or services can be generated with commons-based peer production methodologies. With EBay, Torrent sites, Skype and Wikipedia you can get any item or information for free. For example, EBay, the customers control the products being sold and they’re able to do this for free. Also, with EBay people want to find items/things for cheaper than what they would find at regular price in stores. With Torrent sites people give all kinds of free things like movies, music, information, and software to each other, just because people want things for free or because they want something before it’s even out in stores. Moreover, these sites are run by ordinary people who sign up and upload there information, to be distributed to whoever wants the information at no cost. Furthermore, these services do so well and are very popular because of the low costs; people would rather do something that is free then to have to pay money for it. Such things like this peer production can generate anything, even though the users might not be getting paid, there is always the need/motivation to get something cheaper or for free. Although a lot of it isn’t really controlled and it’s free you should be more cautious with what you’re downloading, reading or buying.

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  2. Hey Josh,

    I like the comment you made about EBay being controlled by the customers and how it is cheaper because of the commons-based peer production methodology being used. I think it is these two things (low cost, customer control)that allow this methodology and way of business to be so effective

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  4. I like your comment about EBay as well. But in my opinion with all these people selling their own products or re-selling things on EBay is that, you never really know what you’re really buying until you have won the bid, paid for it and received it in the mail. Once you've paid for it, it's kind of like a final sale, there are no returns. So you’re putting all your trust into this random person and what their description says about the product. I know when you sign up for E-bay that you agree to advertise the truth about your product, but a lot of people will still lie about the smallest thing about their product just to make a sale.

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