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Agree, plus... MEGA is siloing infrastructure off from access, and that's significant. (I mean "infrastructure" as holding and sending bits, while "access" is
by brownbat 14y ago
Agree, plus...
MEGA is siloing infrastructure off from access, and that's significant. (I mean "infrastructure" as holding and sending bits, while "access" is your link + key so people can unwrap all the way to the gooey content).
The post is right that enforcement can still find and takedown access that is broadcast.
But short messagaes (ie, access) are easy to keep alive through backchannels, while downed infrastructure stays down a while.
Here's one way content could become relatively takedown-proof with everyone following somewhat normal behavior on MEGA:
User uploads content, shares with 20 friends. After getting notification that 20 or so people have downloaded,* pulls the content offline (maybe reuploads to a private link). Friends possess the content and their own MEGA accounts. Several friends repost to MEGA, and you have second generation sharing, now reaching 100 or so people. The cycle continues, spreading content increasingly quickly, but building liability firewalls behind each degree of separation, any takedown impacts a dwindling fraction of the overall sharing population.
(The post claimed this was just like lending a DVD to a friend. Yeah, sort of, except now it can be shared instantly, remotely, and to dozens of people simultaneously.)
* No idea if this will be a MEGA feature, I assume it will be.