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0 pointscabalamat9y ago0 comments

> [IPFS] is not trying to become a pirate haven. Why? Well, mainly because piracy inhibits adoption.

Really? The number of BitTorrent users is considerably greater than the number of IPFS users, so surely the exact opposite is true.

Maybe a piracy platform build on top of IPFS could be its killer app.

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fizzbatter9y ago· 2 in thread

Well, that is fair. I'm mainly talking about "normal" adoption though.

Eg, for a long time BitTorrent was being branded as a pirate haven. The only major players i saw adopt BitTorrent were open source projects needing to distribute large ISOs. IPFS is something that they're trying to get into standards, into browsers, into operating systems, etc. If it's known for distributing kiddy porn on the dark net it will be much more difficult.

I know piracy spreads like wildfire, but it's not really the target audience for what IPFS is trying to do. In short, they want YouTube, not PirateBay. Or so i gather, at least.

Do you disagree?

clueless4049y ago

If IPFS wants get gain traction and go mainstream, they still have you address the kiddy porn and piracy issue.

You can't go downloading and seeding random hashes if this exposes you to criminal charges and/or law suites.

fizzbatter9y ago

They are addressing it, but it's a future feature. Last i saw on Github issues (it likely has evolved since then), they plan to have a central authority which allows for DMCAs/reports/etc of illegal content. The network then propagates an ignore list of sorts (or possibly watches a central list).

Any nodes on the network which abide by this will simply not download and/or unpin the data.

It doesn't prevent you from downloading some kiddy porn that a stranger sent you.. but neither does the internet. This, is purely to allow law to take place, and hopefully allow lawmakers to work with IPFS, and not block the whole damn thing.

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