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social process with a peer-to-peer dynamic
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peers are humans or computers
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P2P human dynamic affords a critical look at current authoritarian and centralized social structures
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Peer-to-peer is also a political and social program
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equipotency of its participants
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three fundamental aspects of social P2P processes
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peer production - the collaborative production of use value is open to participation and use to the widest possible number (as defined by Yochai Benkler, in his essay Coase's Penguin);[1] peer governance - production or project is governed by the community of producers themselves, not by market allocation or corporate hierarchy; peer property - the use-value of property is freely accessible on a universal basis; peer services and products are distributed through new modes of property, which are not exclusive, though recognize individual authorship (i.e. the GNU General Public License or the Creative Commons licenses).
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It must therefore be distinguished from both the capitalist market
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and from production through state and corporate planning
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it differs from traditional linear hierarchies
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it differs from both traditional private property and state-based collective public property
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Unlike private property, peer property is inclusive rather than exclusive