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It would only work while the service is not popular and almost on one uses it. As soon as they attract the attention of copyrights holders, they will be forced
by max51 4y ago
It would only work while the service is not popular and almost on one uses it. As soon as they attract the attention of copyrights holders, they will be forced to implement the same type of BS we see at youtube. The tech might might be decentralized, but you lose 99% of the benefit of decentralization when you pay a company to host it for you. Whatever good intention they may have, it's all gonna go out the window they the owners are facing a decade behind jail and/or tens of millions of dollars in fines.
It's the exact same thing with most platforms that people think will kill youtube. The only reason why they avoided implementing all the crap we hate about youtube is that they are not popular.
- beepbooptheory 4y agoGenuinely curious, if nobody at all is making any advertising money from it, and hosting costs are decentralized (even if that concept is fraught in practice), will copyright holders and/or trolls be as aggressive?
- riffic 4y agoperhaps copyright owners could be more willing to share their content if they had a place they could do so from, and could also monetize to their hearts content. this would effectively cut Google out of the rent-seeking loop.
- Barrin92 4y agoHere in Germany torrent users have always been pretty aggressively pursued. The most common way is for copyright holders to upload their own content, collect IPs, sent out mass infringement notices and collect a few hundred bucks per case. There's an actual industry around it. Unless you're in a jurisdiction where that stuff isn't illegal I think the answer is, yes.
- leobg 4y agoTrue. It’s disgusting. Do you know whether this kind of thing is still being done, now that we have DSGVO?
- wmf 4y agoOr the hosting provider can just drop you at the first sign of attack and it's up to you to migrate your domain and restore from backup at a new provider.