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Would this speed up movement towards decentralised, p2p services? If you can't point to the entity that is hosting the content because it's decentralised (think

Would this speed up movement towards decentralised, p2p services? If you can't point to the entity that is hosting the content because it's decentralised (think dat, ipfs, your favourite blockchain technology or p2p network), can it even be enforced?

JumpCrisscross 8y ago
> If you can't point to the entity that is hosting the content because it's decentralised (think dat, ipfs, your favourite blockchain technology or p2p network), can it even be enforced? Yes. This "if a law becomes difficult to enforce, law enforcement will just ¯\_(ツ)_/¯" meme is fiction. History suggests the law will become stricter towards end users and mercurial in its enforcement.
- DennisP 8y ago
  True but there's a point where that becomes politically difficult.
- polotics 8y ago
  Yes. You get selective enforcement against dissidents. And you don't get to decide you're a dissident: the method they'll use will surprise you!
cesarb 8y ago
On a decentralized, p2p service, the entity that's hosting the content is "everyone". That is, everyone who is a part of the network could be held responsible, either directly (for distributing the content) or indirectly (for being part of a service which does not have a mechanism to follow the law forbidding distribution of the content).
- wereHamster 8y ago
  We have to get the governments part of this service (say, if there'll be a service that replaces http, and the governments want to provide digital services to their citizens then they'll have no way around it), so they host the content themselves, then they sue themselves and shut down and we'll be a free society once again.
hoppelhase 8y ago
You can still force IPFS nodes to delete certain files.