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So, we would blindly host other people's pictures. Does noone see the danger in that?
by abricot 11y ago
So, we would blindly host other people's pictures. Does noone see the danger in that?
- mburns 11y agoipfs doesn't rehost a file unless you explicitly opt-in to do so.
- derefr 11y agoAlso see: Freenet, Perfect Dark, etc. The difference here is that the content you're opting in to rehosting is sitting in cleartext on your machine. So it's not blind, per se; you can delete (un-rehost) whatever you don't want to be there, or run a nudity detection algorithm (yes, those exist) to automatically prevent re-hosting of any porn, etc.
- AndrewGaspar 11y agoSimilar to this, you could suscribe to a good-faith censor that removes known illegal images from your ipfs enlistment (using known hashes, for example). Obviously wouldn't catch everything, but I suspect would remove any legal obligation on your part (IANAL).
- astrobe_ 11y agoStill, you might not be able to tell whether or not a file is legal. One has to have some sort of "trust network" on top of this.
- sbierwagen 11y agoNudity detection doesn't work on black and white photography.
- archagon 11y agoA scheme like this should really have some sort of encryption or chunking wherein the image files wouldn't be reconstructible any one person's machine. I like the idea of a P2P image hosting service but I definitely don't want to feel responsible for hosting CP or other terrible garbage.
- adrianN 11y agoIANAL but I don't think that such schemes have been tested in court. Here in Germany you can get in trouble for just linking to bad content, so it seems to me that storing a chunk of it, however encrypted and inaccessible to you it might be, isn't going to be safe.
- mirimir 11y agoWith Freenet, it's very hard to even prove even that you host pieces of any particular thing. Edit: I stand corrected. But still not easy, I think.
- throwaway7767 11y ago> With Freenet, it's very hard to even prove even that you host pieces of any particular thing. It's only hard if you don't know the content. Freenet uses Content Hash Keying, where the file is hashed and the hash is used as the encryption key (so only people who either know the hash or have the file can request it). If you have a list of cleartext files or hashes, it's not very hard to check if those are hosted on your node.
- cookiecaper 11y agoThat's mostly how Freenet works.