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The protocol can't, but the network can. https://discuss.ipfs.io/t/mirror-of-sci-hub-in-ipfs/1613 https://discuss.ipfs.io/t/mirror-of-sci-hub-in-ipfs/1613

• diggan 6y ago
  Your link is to a forum hosted by Protocol Labs for the IPFS Community. Of course they are trying to follow their own CoC on their own properties, especially when it comes to copyright infringement. As a US company, they're bound to follow US law. Hardly surprising. What does that have to do with the network? Again, the network nor the protocol currently has nothing in place that describes a "attitude" of being against copyright infringement. I remember that we (I'm a ex-Protocol Labs employee) used to have plenty of discussions about adding allow/blocklists to the protocol that people could opt-in to, but don't think that was never added (yet?). If it was, I'd understand where you're coming from.
• georgyo 6y ago
  They are specifically asking for help and guidance to break the law. Any public community has to avoid those questions like the plague. Remember youtube-dl got taken down because it's README file referenced copyrighted material. It doesn't matter if a tool _could_ be used distribiting copyright material. The tool (and communities) cannot promote anything related to that use case at all. The same is true with bittorrent. Bittorrent _could_ be used to download copyrighted music and movies, but you won't find a single reference to anything like that use case on their web page because that is illegal: https://www.bittorrent.com/ https://www.bittorrent.com/ In fact the bittorrent terms of service says you may not use the tool for any illegal purposes: https://www.bittorrent.com/legal/terms-of-use/ https://www.bittorrent.com/legal/terms-of-use/