Of course, it's absolutely DVC. The problem is that I've never seen a DVC solution that solves the problem by making the hosting decentralized. So all of the

Of course, it's absolutely DVC. The problem is that I've never seen a DVC solution that solves the problem by making the hosting decentralized. So all of the huge problems I listed still exist even with these DVC packages. What's more is, even in addition to the cost of the hosting, some of the DVC packages cost money on top of that. So, when a researcher deletes a file to make room for others on their storage provider and/or moves institutions and their account gets deleted, the data is gone. The only way around this is to use torrent or ipfs. Also, I'm not sure what your issue with ipfs is; If it's 'I saw something something crypto one time' - it's a really poor argument. IPFS works completely independently of any crypto - it has nothing really to do with it. The solution can also be torrent - I don't care too much - it's just possible that IPFS can run with far less resource usage on lower power, etc because it's more modern (likely uses better algorithms in the protocol, deals with modern filesystems better, with better performance, hopefully have better security, etc) and it's likely easier to implement. But it doesn't matter if it's torrent because it would work essentially the same way.