S3 durability works as long as somebody pays for it. When the bill is not paid then it is 0.0000000 and objects are gone forever. With distributed storage like

S3 durability works as long as somebody pays for it. When the bill is not paid then it is 0.0000000 and objects are gone forever. With distributed storage like IPFS or BitTorrent the availability of resource is proportional to its popularity. So as article explains, initially there will be group of seeders. I assume anyone who downloads an keeps a package on the system becomes a part of sharing swarm. This dramatically reduces the burden of hosting from package creators as the cost gets distributed among all available peers. As long there is one peer who has the complete package it will be available even forever.