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This is crazy. IPFS is a protocol, not a central authority. Also, it is impossible to know who owns a file. Since it is identified only by a hash, everybody po
by fiatjaf 11y ago
This is crazy. IPFS is a protocol, not a central authority.
Also, it is impossible to know who owns a file. Since it is identified only by a hash, everybody possessing the same file at any point could claim that file is theirs and prove it by producing the hash. In this way, downloading a file is owning it.
Also, the Internet Archive policy seems too naïve. So anyone who just bought a domain can exclude everything saved at that domain in the IA up to that day?
- skybrian 11y agoI think it's less about who owns the hash and more about who refers to it. Think about how git works. If more than one place refers to it then it's like it was copied. If you remove a hash from a directory, it's gone from that directory. If no other directory has it then it can be garbage collected. The key would be to convince publishers that removing the hash from their directory tree counts as deletion. Maybe the hashes shouldn't be that prominent? I don't see how the Internet Archive policy is naive. Yes, they're assuming whoever owns the domain owns the files and maybe sometimes that means someone deletes some files when they didn't have the right. But taking a stand against domain owners who want the files gone would probably land them in court.
- fiatjaf 11y agoIA policy is not naïve from the juridical/real-world point of view, but considering their own goal of keeping files and pages archived.