research sees opportunities for seeding as a practice that caters contribution within peer-to-peer file sharing and the distribution of content in the digital world in general. a term for this is economic traffic management (etm), which is concerned with traffic management solutions to involve all peers, both seeder and leecher. it is etm’s goal to unite peers that have different objectives and to make the sharing of content with peer-to-peer file sharing more efficient. locality awareness is raised as the most promising concepts by scholars. this entails stimulating peers to seed downloads in their neighbourhood, which speeds up the upload speed and saves inter-domain traffic over the internet.