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At the core of the cloud paradigm and the centralized/decentralized issue lies no technical problems but a political one about control and privacy invasion. Th
by Iv 9y ago
At the core of the cloud paradigm and the centralized/decentralized issue lies no technical problems but a political one about control and privacy invasion.
The only reason why we have youtube instead of VLC + eDonkey packages are because of lawsuits. It is a technological solution from 15 years ago that is technologically superior and much harder to censor.
Datacenters and "cloud-based" services do not answer to a technical problem but to a political one: how do we control information flow in a decentralized net? The answer: provide bottleneck of information for free.
- pdimitar 9y agoThe one thing the article didn't address is exactly the pushback from regulators and corporations. They will NOT stand by and watch idly as their control is getting pulled out from their hands. Even if such a network gets invented, I am pretty certain governments will make aggressive laws along he lines of "if your computer caches a trailer of this new Marvel movie, we can confiscate your tech for copyright infringement". As much as I want the problems to be only technical, IMO the much bigger battle will be in courts and public hearings.