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Do those laws even apply to P2P apps without central servers?

• shakna 1y ago
  Yes. Its defined without a technical requirement - just legal ones. Each host will carry a legal responsibility for both what they push, and what they pull.
• drawfloat 1y ago
  They do, but unlike what the OP claims, you do not need to age verify your site just because you added a social element. If the purpose is not to distribute pornography/other age restricted materials and you are able to moderate the site (ie: are not facebook scale), this is not required. The law sucks but the misinformation around it is getting out of hand.
  • koolala 1y ago
    So if a site is completely p2p, it's illegal because it is unmoderatable?
    • ronsor 1y ago
      And if so, is BitTorrent also completely illegal now, even if there's no piracy? IPFS? I2P? Tor?
    • drawfloat 1y ago
      No. If you are operating a p2p video chat site that is accessed by minors and you have no way for users to block or report content, then you are indeed going to face issues. If a user is downloading a Linux image via bit torrent, or using WebRTC data channels to synchronise many clients using a p2p mechanism, what is the risk that needs age restricting? This is what I meant, the OP is factually incorrect that just adding P2P technology to a service means it must age gate.