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LeeWare · #2 (**permalink**) November 4th, 2003

I currently have 349 completely legal titles online [I created them myself] mainly in the form of video material. I've done various posts on various forums outlining the popularity of content by type. In fact many have done in depth studies and just like yours they all end with pretty much the same conclusion.

For the last couple of years LeeWare Development has been distributing files {non-infringing content on p2p networks} We have produced between 300 - 400 titles many of which are just posted in various formats. If you search Gnutella for the keyword CBT (Computer Based Training) you will see the content we are hosting. Right now we have online 349 files and we will be adding more each week. The total amount of GB shared is close to 7GB of content mainly Video.

We've learned the following things in our trials.

1 - In this type of network File Naming is important. It makes it easier for people to find your content and it creates a since of order.

2 - Host stability is a must. If you are going to distribute content on a filesharing network you have to maintain a stable source for the content. You can't depend on the community because most users are leeches. However, in LeeWare Development's case that's okay because we maintain an asychronous relationship to the network where we are at the distribution end and the users are on the consumption end. Host stability creates a positive experience for the file consumer.

3 - Know your target audience. We have two target audiences. Those that are specifically interested in the content that we distribute and casual browsers [those that use the network looking for ANYTHING interesting.]

We've made several attempts to get people to become part of our distribution network. But we haven't had any serious takers again most users want to get content but not return the favor. In fairness I have to point out that as I connect to different file sharing systems and networks I am able to find content that we produced being sharing by a fair number of hosts. This is promising but I would like to see this on a wider scale.

In fact in the last 76 hours we have pushed out 16GB of content via our Limewire Servets each server showing 1000+ completed file transfers.