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> But in its current avatar, there isn't an easy way for you to delete data from other people's IPFS hosts in case they choose to host your data. If you put it
by mirimir 8y ago
> But in its current avatar, there isn't an easy way for you to delete data from other people's IPFS hosts in case they choose to host your data.
If you put it on IPFS, it's not "your data" any longer. If that doesn't work for you, then don't use IFPS.
Edit: I do get why people are concerned about persistence of bad stuff. But it's not at all unique to IPFS. And even IPFS forgets stuff that nobody is serving. I mean, try to find these files that I uploaded a few years ago: https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmUDV2KHrAgs84oUc7z9zQmZ3whx1NB6YDPv8ZRuf4dutN/ https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmUDV2KHrAgs84oUc7z9zQmZ3whx1NB6YDPv8ZR... and https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmSp8p6d3Gxxq1mCVG85jFHMax8pSBzdAyBL2jZxCcCLBL https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmSp8p6d3Gxxq1mCVG85jFHMax8pSBzdAyBL2jZ.... As far as I can tell, they're just gone.
- antpls 8y agoIf IPFS becomes famous to the point governments have to look at it, and that it allows to bypass laws, they will try to forbid by law people to run nodes, same way with Tor in some countries.
- feanaro 8y agoTry and succeed are different things. The larger the use case set, the tighter the integration with everything else, the stronger the reliance on it, the harder it will be to outlaw it. Often the laws drift ever-so-slightly to accommodate the new reality.