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P2P filesharing would be the main means we share information now, if it hadn't been killed by powerful corporations and their political lobby groups. As it stan
by trompetenaccoun 4y ago
P2P filesharing would be the main means we share information now, if it hadn't been killed by powerful corporations and their political lobby groups. As it stands, there isn't much money in developing for pirates so the ecosystem has stagnated. Great example for how the world is controlled by those with money/power. It would be a very different world if we all freely shared files in a decentralized way instead of getting them from server farms owned by Amazon, Alphabet & co. It would be a much more democratic world where they couldn't as easily censor people as they do now.
- Anunayj 4y agoGosh the whole p2p situation always reminds me of https://xkcd.com/949/ https://xkcd.com/949/, even with webrtc being a thing, I just never could get it to work reliably for huge files, it's been far easier and faster to just run a quick http server, and forward a port.