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Because we needed curation. Very large proportion of the p2p content was viruses/malware etc or fake (you thought you were downloading A, but in fact you were d
by whatever1 5y ago
Because we needed curation. Very large proportion of the p2p content was viruses/malware etc or fake (you thought you were downloading A, but in fact you were downloading B).
With links in centralized websites and fora we at least had a little more confidence on the safety/quality of the content.
- synctext 5y agothis. To make decentralised search work you need to solve the trust problem. Strangers sharing content with you without spam, decoys, and malware. You need to create trust without any central coordinator. Crawling the DHT for content is not going to get you Google-quality search. The Tribler lab is working on the web-of-trust problem and decentralised (ledger) accounting since pre-Bitcoin days. Its a stubborn problem. But we're making consistent progress. Latest peer-reviewed science: https://www.ifaamas.org/Proceedings/aamas2021/pdfs/p1263.pdf https://www.ifaamas.org/Proceedings/aamas2021/pdfs/p1263.pdf -Tribler team
- EVa5I7bHFq9mnYK 5y agoYou generally can't catch viruses from mp3 or video files. As for the games, I very much doubt a torrent web site can check hundreds of gigabyte-sized .exe files for trojans. So I wouldn't recommend torrenting games on the same computer you store your Bitcoin wallet.