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> Yeah, Bittorrent has actually gotten more decentralized in recent years Only due to sustained pressure to keep it decentralized. If TPB was acquired by Googl
by badloginagain 10y ago
> Yeah, Bittorrent has actually gotten more decentralized in recent years
Only due to sustained pressure to keep it decentralized. If TPB was acquired by Google and rebranded to 'Google Bay', bittorrent would be just another Google fiefdom, and be as entrenched as Docs or YouTube.
>I wanted distributed systems to become mainstream, because of their freedom, equality, & competition benefits
Unfortunately you're in the vast minority of people who understand what distributed systems are, and how to connect them to anything as abstract as freedom, equality, etc. Most people just want an easy-to-remember, easier-to-use, not sketchy looking way to consume content. Profit-seeking companies are simply better equipped and more motivated to provide that service than the open-source community is, because they don't have to worry about freedom, equality, and certainly competition.
- battlebot 10y agoYou act like none of this had any effect but you forget that once upon a time if you wanted to buy a song, you were forced to either purchase a CD with a lot of other songs you didn't want, or you could maybe pick up a 45rpm single record, or you could make a tape of the song off the radio. This technology has led us to being able to buy pretty much any song we want for $2 or so and it also completely gutted the music industry to the point where barely any new bands exist in the mainstream anymore. Technology is a double-edged sword. We seem to be sitting in a lull between great new innovations. But don't worry, that lull isn't going to last much longer.