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It doesn't, thats just a mirror and even then everyone just uses the cloudflare or ipfs.io gateway instead of actually using IPFS. Dont get me wrong I like IPF
by IceWreck 4y ago
It doesn't, thats just a mirror and even then everyone just uses the cloudflare or ipfs.io gateway instead of actually using IPFS.
Dont get me wrong I like IPFS and would love to see increased usage but if a libgen mirror is the biggest example then we need to find more applications for it.
- trasz 4y agoLet’s make a libgen for music. And run it all on IPFS.
- shp0ngle 4y agoYou will start running into exactly the same problem as with normal hosting. You need someone to “pin” the music for you, or you pin it yourself but with public IP and will get sued. Unlike with torrents, most people will be using the “gateways” - most people are not “seeding” - partly because IPFS itself is resource hungry and hard to use, unlike Torrent which is easy to use. In reality IPFS world is very centralized, you just have this resource hungry pretend-decentralisation on top. I don’t know why is it like that when BitTorrent is much older and much more actually decentralised.
- trasz 4y agoAvoiding the legal problems seems doable, Sci-Hub and LibGen are managing. But the gateways thing sounds... unfortunate. The way BitTorrent fixed this was the ratio - if you weren't seeding enough, you'd eventually get kicked out from the tracker. Does IPFS have a similar mechanism, or something else but with the same purpose?
- zolland 4y agoWhat do you mean by ipfs.io gateway instead of ipfs? I'm not super familiar with this stuff.