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"I wonder if there's some way to do it in a decentralized way" - Everyone has that same thought until it's put into practice and you find yourself hosting stuff
by thrownaway954 7y ago
"I wonder if there's some way to do it in a decentralized way" - Everyone has that same thought until it's put into practice and you find yourself hosting stuff "from the community" that can get you dragged into court or prison. BTW... if you think "the community" is going to come together and help you through the financial and legal hardships you will be sorely mistaken. They will just pack up and move on to the next thing and you will be let to fend for yourself.
- chongli 7y agoMaybe this is an opportunity to use machine learning to filter this stuff out? It could be done on the client side for every user connecting to the network. That way each user would have control over what comes into their machine, rather than just being an open dropbox. You could also force everything to be plaintext and just block anything encrypted or in an unrecognized file format.
- dharmab 7y agoThat doesn't address any if the legal risk.
- thrownaway954 7y agoYou do that and let us know how that works out for you.
- namanyayg 7y agoDecentralised by providing computing power, not hosting content. Would that still constitute as illegal if the bits aren't on your computer, and hence are unviewable by you, but you have somehow donated computing resources to run the network? Just thinking out loud
- thrownaway954 7y agoI wouldn't risk my freedom finding out. Maybe talk to a lawyer and report back to us.