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Lbry.io – decentralized digital library
- rabidrat 10y agoI tried to add myself to the mailing list at https://lbry.io/signup https://lbry.io/signup and got a 500 error.
- ozo 10y agoI tried to access the developer program (from this (https://lbry.io/quickstart https://lbry.io/quickstart) link on this (https://lbry.io/get https://lbry.io/get) page) and got a blank page.
- geoah 10y agoI'm still going through the docs and all so this probably has been answered before : How do you deal with takedown and dcma requests? I know ipfs for example has a blacklist for dcma requests. I'm trying to understand what keeps someone from copying a video and sharing it for less or uploading a movie or TV series.
- sneak 10y agoAFAIK, ipfs's blacklist is just on their public http gateway node, and the network itself has no such constraints.
- kauffj 10y agoSimilarly. We will maintain a similar list and official releases will respect this list. This does not remove the blockchain entry, since this is impossible, but it would be irresponsible and illegal in most countries to continue to host content on this list. Here's a legal memo the wonderful people at Cardozo drafted for us: https://www.dropbox.com/s/70uezh44ct0244c/LBRY-SecondaryLiabilityandIndecencyMemo.docx https://www.dropbox.com/s/70uezh44ct0244c/LBRY-SecondaryLiab... We've also spent an unfortunate amount of money on legal fees.
- antocv 10y agoBlockchain based?
- cyborgx7 10y agoSeems like it. https://lbry.io/faq?category=mining https://lbry.io/faq?category=mining
- tromp 10y agoMissing the most important question: what proof-of-work algorithm does LBRY use?
- tromp 10y agoSearching around for a while, I came across https://github.com/lbryio/lbrycrd-gpu/blob/master/algorithm/lbry.c https://github.com/lbryio/lbrycrd-gpu/blob/master/algorithm/... which shows it to be Hashcash with some mishmash of existing hash functions (SHA256,SHA512,RIPEMD) cobbled together.
- wyldfire 10y agoWould be nice if the site featured a diagram showing how the functions and inputs are composed into the output hash. If this is an original function, what is it about LBRY that necessitates this new function?
- QasimK 10y agoI recall lbry.io being posted here before and there were concerns around the naming system, where anyone could take control of a particular name just by giving more money to it at any point. There's an FAQ up (https://lbry.io/faq/naming https://lbry.io/faq/naming) which addresses this concern, and I think the system that they have designed is fantastic. It seems fair, although I'd give a slightly longer time period for a "counter-bid" personally. I'd taking a look at the FAQ before you move away or comment because they answer a lot of different questions
- CJefferson 10y agoMy problem with all of this is I don't care about having the "best name". I want to make a new name, and then work increasing it's value. This system seems like anyone who wants to make a name but not monitise it will lose. How much of the value of (picking the first things that come into my head) the names FSF, GPL, GCC and clang come from the organisations and products? I bet those names would be worth much more to someone willing to use adverts and spam. And even if we raised enough money to keep the names out of the hands of spammers, all that's happening is that lbry gets to charge a tax to anyone who has a name that has got even slightly popular.
- OJFord 10y agoIsn't that addressed by this FAQ entry? > Rest assured, we’re implementing permanent URLs that are always yours. https://lbry.io/faq/no-auction-options https://lbry.io/faq/no-auction-options
- CJefferson 10y agoYes, but they will just be randomly generated strings, that doesn't really sound appealing. Also they don't exist yet.
- kauffj 10y agoThat FAQ article is old and I'm going to update it to point at https://lbry.io/faq/naming https://lbry.io/faq/naming. You can get names as short as: lbry://name#a Where #a can actually be that short. If you want a name with no identifiers or filters at all, the voting system will continue to be used.
- franciscop 10y agoSmall tip: you can add a dark background to the header through CSS for those who don't have the image in cache. Right now, while loading it's white text over white background.
- kauffj 10y agoGreat suggestion! Done. https://github.com/lbryio/lbry.io/commit/ab6a3fe538f5c55e1f3a7d3020659e868496392e https://github.com/lbryio/lbry.io/commit/ab6a3fe538f5c55e1f3... If you're in our Slack, DM me a wallet address at @kauffj for a tip!
- wsgrah 10y agoCompany is a bit tone def when it was pointed out they have a all male team https://twitter.com/LBRYio/status/843865332771164160 https://twitter.com/LBRYio/status/843865332771164160
- chungy 10y agoA team consisting of four people. Is this really a problem? It's probably just a bunch of friends that decided to try an idea. Seriously, what are they supposed to do to resolve it? Fire two partners and hire two women just to make an equality quota? Hire four new women just on the merit of being women?
- Ianvdl 10y agoIt's a vapid complaint used by people who want to feel superior without actually contributing anything to the project.
- stonesixone 10y ago> A team consisting of four people. I count thirteen: https://lbry.io/team https://lbry.io/team
- chungy 10y agoThanks. Apologies for not looking at it into detail. The Twitter link only showed the first four.
- legostormtroopr 10y agoWhy is it even worth pointing out there team has no women? The original "call out" tweet was very snarky. There are 9 staff, not including a few advisors. So its probably the case that they all knew each other before the comapny existed. If there were no women in their lab, theres not much they can do about that. What would the correct response be? "Sorry we didn't know any women when we started, we shouldnt have done anything until the right quota of women showed up." Should they fire and replace 4 staff with women or just hire 9 women even though they might not have enough revenue to do so?
- jiggytom 10y agoGreat job LBRY Team!
- sklivvz1971 10y agoMy favorite bit so far from the LBRY FAQ: "we’re basically, fundamentally the same as a toaster"
- pgl 10y agoWould love a quick explanation of what this is, especially after clicking through to "Learn More"[0]. I don't want to watch a video, I don't want to read an essay, even the FAQ[1] (which wasn't exactly prominently linked to) doesn't seem to have a "What is LBRY?" anywhere. After a few minutes on this site, I still have no idea what this is. "Watch, read and play in a decentralized digital library controlled by the community." sounds intriguing, but... what does that mean? What exactly is a decentralised digital library? How can I watch, read, and play in it? How does the community control it? [0] https://lbry.io/learn https://lbry.io/learn [1] https://lbry.io/faq https://lbry.io/faq
- radong 10y agoThe essay you don't want to read answers exactly those questions and isn't even that long of a read.
- pgl 10y agoSorry, my point was really that "Watch, read and play in a decentralized digital library controlled by the community" doesn't help newcomers understand anything, because there are too many unanswered questions.
- camoby 10y agoI took me a while to realise this was a blockchain development.
- wyldfire 10y agoAFAICT it's a place where content is hosted by its creators and micropayments are used to subsidize the content creation (instead of advertising). There are many comparisons to youtube on this site, although content is not limited to video. > How can I watch, read, and play in it? I haven't figured this bit out yet. I suppose something like a web browser plugin should be on their roadmap if it's not already available. I'd imagine the plugin would yield the LRBY credits to creators in order to browse the content. The FAQ describes how LBRY is distinct from Storj and IPFS et al, but not mentioned is steemit -- it has a similar concept IIRC.
- doctornemo 10y agoI poked around a bit and shared some notes here: https://bryanalexander.org/2017/03/19/what-is-lbry-and-what-does-it-mean-for-education/ https://bryanalexander.org/2017/03/19/what-is-lbry-and-what-... LBRY's Twitter team was also very responsive.
- CiPHPerCoder 10y ago> Subsequent attempts to engage sincerely were also met with derision, so I'm not sure anything could have ever been done that wouldn't have been met similarly. Some people are like that, where if you respond to their snark, your response will be used against you to tarnish your reputation in the eyes of bystanders. It is important to never let them get the moral high ground. If someone says something like... * "Your team is all white." * "Your team is all male." * "Your team is all American." * "Your team is all able-bodied." A better way to respond would be something like, "That's true. We're always looking for new talent and embrace diversity, just haven't had much luck yet. <hiring page URL here> if anyone's interested." It addresses the problem, and contains an open invitation for people of diverse backgrounds to apply. (All of this is assuming you're willing to work with people who aren't white, aren't male, aren't American, and/or aren't able-bodied, of course.)
- nananonymous 10y agoThis type of social control is so bizarre to me. Like, here's a literal script for you to read from if you'd like us to stop attacking you in the future.
- CiPHPerCoder 10y ago> Like, here's a literal script for you to read from if you'd like us to stop attacking you in the future. Us? I'm talking about them, in a third person sense, not a first person sense. Them, in this case, is meant to refer to trollish individuals looking to cause trouble under the facade of caring about the plight of women, people of color, etc. but actually are just in it for their own emotions. The people who want to stir the pot, not make things better. Rather than a script furnished in a list of demands from said subset of the populace, this is more of a suggestion to defuse conflicts in a way that doesn't let them win.
- nananonymous 10y agoBeing forced to adopt others beliefs about diversity as their own is the definition of hegemony. You're taking part in making sure they have the "right" beliefs about business structure and hiring practices, and it's all the more insidious because you claim you're not.
- reimertz 10y agoAm I the only one who looked at the page for 2 seconds, clicked learned more and then went back here again? It's sad how "good looking" demo pages have turned me into a robot, ignoring everything that doesn't satisfy my preferences and therefore result in me missing out of a huge amount of valuable information.
- ndh2 10y agoMost of these "good looking" pages suck at getting their point across. I really have no idea what they're trying to optimize for. Curiosity maybe? Retention? These pages are trying to be advertisements when they should provide actual information. ∙ What is it (in one sentence)? ∙ What can I do with it? ∙ Where can I learn more about what you just described using meaningless buzzwords? Edit: This page has more information, but no tl;dr either: https://lbry.io/what https://lbry.io/what
- freekh 10y agoIs it possible that they try to optimize for discussions on forums just like this one? :P
- abraves10001 10y agoTheir essay has a tl;dr at the bottom, I didn't bother reading the actual essay. It was way too long, when all I wanted was the answers to the three questions you posed. >TL;DR Digital art is one of the first goods to evolve beyond scarcity. This evolution is changing the way content is discovered, publicized, paid for and delivered. Heretofore, the lack of transparency and monetization mechanisms in peer-to-peer sharing networks has largely enabled piracy. By equipping a peer-to-peer protocol with a digital currency and transparent decentralized ledger, the LBRY protocol opens the door to a new era of digital content distribution making peer-to-peer content distribution suitable for major publishing houses, self-publishers and everyone in between. If LBRY succeeds, we will enter a world that is even more creative, connected, and conservatory. We will waste less and we make more. We will create a world where a teenager in Kenya and a reality star in Los Angeles use the same tool to search the same network and have access to the same results -- a world where information, knowledge, and imagination know no borders.
- wyldfire 10y agoSome good discussion between kauffj (LBRY) and someone on steemit [1]. [1] https://steemit.com/lbry/@hipster/stop-buying-lbry-credits https://steemit.com/lbry/@hipster/stop-buying-lbry-credits
- joshstrange 10y agoWas the video flashing for anyone else while playing? It would flash in bars of black every second or so. Watching it directly on YouTube "fixed" it.
- j_s 10y agoI believe most here recognize that something like this is needed (disrupting payment for content from "the little guys"), and I personally hope something like this will happen soon. Best of luck to the LBRY team making this happen; their "growth hacker" seems to be getting a lot of stuff on the HN front page this week! (That and/or LBRY is genuinely about to hit the big time...)
- vasili111 10y agoIs there anonymity in LBRY?
- webmaven 10y agoGood question. I'd like to know whether pseudonymous interactions are possible, and what protections are in place to prevent snooping on buyers and sellers and de-anonymization or de-pseudonymization of user accounts.
- corbinpage 10y agoLooks cool! I'll give it a try. Looks like you guys created your own blockchain for the service. Any reason why Ethereum wasn't used? Any limitations?
- RRRA 10y agoI'm eager to see how IPFS integrates the IPNS & IPLD layers and how it affects the open linked data context...
- animex 10y agoIt claims no censorship but what if someone starts using it to distribute content that I'd say almost everyone would deem offensive. Can content be removed? Is there privacy built into the protocol? Can everyone see what I've downloaded & published? What if someone uploads pirated works?
- arcaster 10y agoTalked to some of the Lbry team members at Coindesk Construct in SF a few months back. You guys are awesome, keep up the good work!