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Comment by pixel_popping

19 hours ago

It's funny because even in Piracy, IPFS has never really taken off and that's a massive use case.

It slowly was taking off—e.g. Library Genesis on IPFS[0]—but then IPFS introduced Bad Bits Denylist [1] which killed it on arrival.

[0] https://freeread.org/ipfs.html

[1] https://badbits.dwebops.pub/

  • Suddenly it looks a lot less decentralised.

    • Well, badbits are only enforced on the centralized http gateways. LibGen CIDs would still resolve fine using the DHT as the decentralised discovery mechanism

    • I don't know, it looks pretty decentralised to me?

      >The purpose of this list is to allow IPFS node operators (e.g. someone running a public IPFS gateway) to opt into not hosting previously flagged content.

      IPFS node operators, who are supposedly interested in hosting malicious content (and i2p-hosted phishings are a real problem) can OPT INTO using this list.

      In this case, I don't see how that's any problem for piracy - people can just use one of the bad/unfiltered nodes.

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