What are the benefits of peer-to-peer computing?
What will be an ideal response?
Valuable externalities. Many resources are pooled together through extremely low-cost interoperability making the whole or collective information base more valuable than the sum of its isolated parts.
Lower cost of ownership and cost sharing. The cost of interoperabiity is extremely low by using existing infrastructure and minimizing maintenance cost (or cost transferring to users).
Anonymity/privacy. A P2P system can be designed to offer peers a high degree of autonomous control over their data and resources.
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