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1) Whilst it can be used to make a profit, it can also be used as a system to allow you to trade storage space on your own computer in return for replicating yo
by david_ar 11y ago
1) Whilst it can be used to make a profit, it can also be used as a system to allow you to trade storage space on your own computer in return for replicating your own content on other people's machines. The more storage you provide, the more redundantly your own content is hosted on the network, and the longer you can still serve your own content whilst your own machine is offline. IANAL though, so I can't comment on the legal implications.
2) Sure, you can view it as a CDN anyone can participate in (including machines within your LAN).
3) There are plans for handling DMCA takedowns https://github.com/ipfs/gateway-dmca-denylist https://github.com/ipfs/gateway-dmca-denylist
- einrealist 11y agoWell, I am thrilled to see it succeed. To me the most interesting part is IPFS acting as a CDN standard. That could make an impact, certainly.
- synctext 11y agoTheir incentive idea is realistic, it will work. My research team has build very similar operational systems over the past 8 years. "Decentralized credit mining in P2P systems", IFIP Networking 2015 "Towards a Peer-to-Peer Bandwidth Marketplace", 2014 "Bandwidth as a computer currency", news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2007/08/creating-a-computer-currency/, (PRE-Bitcoin), 2007 Their work is still early, essential thing about this type of approach is spam. You can often trick people into caching stuff. So not your typical DDoS anymore, but another resource eater. Plus there is the counterintuitive oversupply problem: <more citations to our own work> "Investment Strategies for Credit-Based P2P Communities"