In my current model for a distributed video service, peers gain "premium" bandwidth rights in exchange for storing videos, modulated by view count. Plenty of u

In my current model for a distributed video service, peers gain "premium" bandwidth rights in exchange for storing videos, modulated by view count. Plenty of users would store popular videos to chase after premiums, but it will be similarly profitable for a handful or so of people to host the less popular videos because there will be less competition for views (which are in turn modulated by the amount of data for a video you contributed to a given P2P stream). This solves the problem of obscure but useful content being phased out.