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I will never run an IPFS gateway as long as there are no robust legal protections against someone provoking a downloads (and with IPFS, subsequent uploads) of c
by sascha_sl 4y ago
I will never run an IPFS gateway as long as there are no robust legal protections against someone provoking a downloads (and with IPFS, subsequent uploads) of content that's illegal to have on your hard drive (a universal example is CSAM).
And believe it or not - occasionally such content is used as a weapon. A Twitch streamer with an open Dropbox learned the hard way. It's used regularly on _that_ kind of imageboard to derail threads. I know because a naive version of me briefly ran an archive of a supposedly worksafe board about video games a decade ago and had their door knocked down at gunpoint about a year later.
I don't know how the Fediverse still exists, considering that most implementations are very eager to mirror all media they encounter.
I know HTTP can provoke the same caching, but for that there's actually much more robust legal precedent.