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Doesn't that create some legal issues? By viewing some of these IPFS links higher up in the thread am I "distributing" their contents in the eyes of the law?

jstanley 9y ago
Unlikely. Even if you saw something "bad", you have a perfectly reasonable explanation. I don't think it'll be a problem.
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- roywiggins 9y ago
  I mean, people have had doors kicked down for operating Tor exits. http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2016/04/04/472992023/when-a-dark-web-volunteer-gets-raided-by-the-police http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2016/04/04/472... > Seattle police spokesman Sean Whitcomb says the department understands how Tor relays work, and they knew Robinson was a Tor host. > "Knowing that, moving in, it doesn't automatically preclude the idea that the people running Tor are not also involved in child porn," Whitcomb says. "It does offer a plausible alibi, but it's still something that we need to check out."
danieldk 9y ago
As far as I understand, you only distribute objects when you pinned them. https://discuss.ipfs.io/t/replication-on-ipfs-or-the-backing-up-content-model/372 https://discuss.ipfs.io/t/replication-on-ipfs-or-the-backing...
- DeliveryGuy 9y ago
  Pinning ensure that the content doesn't get pruned when your clear your node's cache. I think as long as you have a block of any file you'll be a provider as well. I think this opens up an issue of copyright, there are several public IPFS Gateways available on via HTTP. If you host a bad file, you can essentially pull it through any of these public IPFS Gateways to create other seeders for your file. Keep in mind, there is no guarantee to how long those seeders will have the file, but they do become seeders for your file for some amount of time, at least until they clear their cache or other files need the space and prune your file. This is one reason I stopped running an IPFS Gateway. You don't have to look very hard to find copyrighted material being served via IPFS.

jstanley 9y ago

Unlikely. Even if you saw something "bad", you have a perfectly reasonable explanation. I don't think it'll be a problem.

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roywiggins 9y ago
I mean, people have had doors kicked down for operating Tor exits. http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2016/04/04/472992023/when-a-dark-web-volunteer-gets-raided-by-the-police http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2016/04/04/472... > Seattle police spokesman Sean Whitcomb says the department understands how Tor relays work, and they knew Robinson was a Tor host. > "Knowing that, moving in, it doesn't automatically preclude the idea that the people running Tor are not also involved in child porn," Whitcomb says. "It does offer a plausible alibi, but it's still something that we need to check out."

danieldk 9y ago

As far as I understand, you only distribute objects when you pinned them. https://discuss.ipfs.io/t/replication-on-ipfs-or-the-backing-up-content-model/372 https://discuss.ipfs.io/t/replication-on-ipfs-or-the-backing...

DeliveryGuy 9y ago
Pinning ensure that the content doesn't get pruned when your clear your node's cache. I think as long as you have a block of any file you'll be a provider as well. I think this opens up an issue of copyright, there are several public IPFS Gateways available on via HTTP. If you host a bad file, you can essentially pull it through any of these public IPFS Gateways to create other seeders for your file. Keep in mind, there is no guarantee to how long those seeders will have the file, but they do become seeders for your file for some amount of time, at least until they clear their cache or other files need the space and prune your file. This is one reason I stopped running an IPFS Gateway. You don't have to look very hard to find copyrighted material being served via IPFS.