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Why do you think decentralized technologies still help people pirate software to this day while centralized services eventually gets shut down? The amount of tr
by capableweb 5y ago
Why do you think decentralized technologies still help people pirate software to this day while centralized services eventually gets shut down? The amount of trackers that has disappeared over the years is huge, and some of them quite sad as well. What.CD would be a famous example where we basically had a enormous backup of long lost music in the world. What.CD disappeared when French authorities managed to figure out where the servers were and got permission to raid them.
Same thing happened with TPB a couple of times, but amazingly it's still standing. We can only hope it remains so, but in the future we might not be as lucky. Not to say that plenty countries block access to TPB via having the ISPs block DNS/IP to known addresses.
All of these things wouldn't have been a problem if the search index was also decentralized.
- user-the-name 5y agoBut that isn't something that would drive user behaviour until the search is actually taken down.
- capableweb 5y agoLet's go back. The initial claim is "the crappy results of EMule/GNUtella and friends as a proof "decentralized X" does not really work" Then you claim that since BitTorrent is more popular than eMule, that means "decentralized X" doesn't work. How is it relevant what would drive the user behavior?