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It's just a matter of time until the store fronts are developed open source on Github and hosted decentralized on a network like MaidSafe. People love to get hi
by abrkn 9y ago
It's just a matter of time until the store fronts are developed open source on Github and hosted decentralized on a network like MaidSafe. People love to get high and are willing to pay. Innovation will follow to meet demand.
- amyjess 9y ago> It's just a matter of time until the store fronts are developed open source on Github Given that Richard Bates faced prosecution for working on the code of the original Silk Road, this could result in very, very bad repercussions. GitHub would very likely be raided, and anyone who committed to or forked the repo could be prosecuted. I don't think anyone wants that to happen. Actually, I wouldn't be surprised if GitHub will update their TOS to ban this kind of software before anyone gets prosecuted in order to prevent themselves from being raided.
- mason55 9y agoI think it would be much more difficult to prosecute someone for working on a generic storefront application that COULD be used as a darknet market vs. someone who was directly building a darknet market. There's obviously gradient, because on one side you have Richard Bates and on the other side you have the people who work on Tor. I think that writing a generic "white label anonymous storefront" is much closer to the Tor side than the Silk Road side.
- sondr3 9y agoI would imagine it wouldn't be advertised as a product developed solely for Darknet related markets but rather a marketplace for people who value their privacy and such. A few of the torrent sites I use have their tracker source code available on GitHub.
- burger_moon 9y agoThere's already public markets available on reddit for all kinds of illegal things in addition to drugs that get you high.