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Unless it had a strategy to counteract piracy and other illegal content, it would become a target for law enforcement as soon as it grew big enough to be releva
by johbjo 6y ago
Unless it had a strategy to counteract piracy and other illegal content, it would become a target for law enforcement as soon as it grew big enough to be relevant.
For example, one attack could be to start legal processes against key people in order to bankrupt them, or possibly jail them. This would be function as a deterrence to most people committing resources to the network.
- BLKNSLVR 6y agoThere's enough precedent that software won't be permanently killed just because piracy and illegal content is one possible use-case (despite the fact that 'they' try, try again). I think, partially, Tribler are attempting to find more legitimate uses for the software to guard against the perception (that I had / have) that Tribler is an anonymised bittorrent client (using tor-like node structure) rather than, as they're self describing, a bittorrent-compatible alternative to YouTube.