Adding review of Bittorrent Economics paper (#81)

* Adding review of Bittorrent Economics paper

* Clarify point about old files credits in papers/Economics_of_BitTorrent_communities/README.md

Co-authored-by: Dmitriy Ryajov <dryajov@gmail.com>

Co-authored-by: Dmitriy Ryajov <dryajov@gmail.com>
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# Economics of BitTorrent communities
## Authors
- Ian A. Kash - iankash@microsoft.com
- John K. Lai - jklai@seas.harvard.edu
- Haoqi Zhang - hq@eecs.harvard.edu
- Aviv Zohar - avivz@microsoft.com
### DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1145/2187836.2187867
## Summary
The paper is a study of a BitTorrent community called DIME, where users share live concert recordings. The community has around 100K users and the study analyses data gathered over 6 months.
### Main ideas
* The DIME system enforces a ratio of at least 0.25: 4 downloads for 1 upload
* Many users have a ratio above 1 (which shows an altruistic behaviour)
* New files are more attractive to users and have high demand at the beginning
* Users with high bandwidth Internet connections take advantage of new files to take credits
* Old files are no good to gain credit because they are not in high demand
* There are periods where downloads are free
* Users prefer to download old files during free periods
### Observations
* The paper does not give any numbers about the amount of data available in total
* The paper does not provide data about the file size distribution
* Overall the paper provides interesting data about how sharing communities behave but no data about the decentralized storage itself.
### Other ideas
* Some aspects of the demand for files with respect to their life could be applied to other decentralized storage systems