For "TFA", see e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19781756 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19781756 > so could torrent clients, not sure what's dif

For "TFA", see e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19781756 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19781756 > so could torrent clients, not sure what's different really This is precisely why the developers' attitudes do matter. The difference is that the BitTorrent community has a well-established permissive attitude toward copyright violations. This is what gives me a high degree of trust that my next distro update won't bring in any new content blocks. I don't have that high degree of trust in the IPFS developers, given the explicit statements made in favor of upholding existing copyright law. > anything that is linking to IPFS Desktop could easily link to their own distribution of the client as it's all open source Sure, but getting people to migrate isn't easy. Look at how many people are still downloading OpenOffice vs LibreOffice, for instance: http://www.openoffice.org/stats/downloads.html http://www.openoffice.org/stats/downloads.html