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Do you have any idea how that'll scale if ipfs takes off? Everyone will be using it to host copyrighted content and you'll end up with the same situation that
by harshreality 8y ago
Do you have any idea how that'll scale if ipfs takes off? Everyone will be using it to host copyrighted content and you'll end up with the same situation that places like youtube have. Either you'll get sued for making the stuff available through your gateway (I doubt you have the staff to manually take it all down), or you'll have to implement a system like youtube where you trust major copyright holders to take down ipfs content themselves. Right?
What are you going to do when people (on other sites) put up pages with fake ipfs links that are identified as copyrighted information, but are really legitimate files (let's say, <a href="ipfslink">Crazy Rich Asians (2018) 1080p</a> where ipfslink is the latest minified jquery on your gateway? You're going to get a takedown for a link like that, regardless of the actual content, if copyright holders operate as they do now.
Do you think you can require copyright holders to be more diligent and start ignoring their takedowns if they make too many mistakes? Require them to actually verify that the ipfs content (direct hash, or some perceptual hash of it) is their copyrighted content? That seems highly unlikely to be acceptable to copyright holders. If you could require that copyright holders do that before sending takedowns, the next step would be copyright violators hosting massive random files, linking to them as if they're movies. Copyright holders would waste tons of bandwidth downloading that random data, and burning cpu to hash it only to discover it's not their stuff.
I want ipfs to catch on, but I don't see how gateways like this can work, without getting sued into oblivion, or getting into bed with copyright holders and suffering so many mistaken and maliciously false takedowns that your gateway becomes a neutered content distribution platform... like youtube... with lots of legitimate content getting censored.