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That code can't be taken down for "copyright reasons" is a feature in my eyes, not a flaw. The best way to stand up to censorship and legal threats is to really
by goldfeld 12y ago
That code can't be taken down for "copyright reasons" is a feature in my eyes, not a flaw. The best way to stand up to censorship and legal threats is to really not be able to comply, just like the best defense against torture is not to know (and much more so if your would-be agressors have a way of being sure you really don't know, and technology can do that against censorship.)
- bnj 12y agoJust turns out to be a huge drag when secrets get accidentally committed to the swarm.
- kadhjasdkj 12y agoI fully agree, but isn't that roughly the same with Github? Technically it's much much different of course, but if you commit some private keys/etc to Github, you have to invalidate everything used and assume that someone saw it, Google saw it, and it's cached in multiple places. Right?
- krapp 12y agoTo be fair, right now it's all but impossible to entirely take code down for "copyright reasons" if incentive exists to pirate it. I don't know that this is necessarily a strong argument for using a blockchain in this way.
- voltagex_ 12y agoYou should see some of the stuff that's in the Bitcoin blockchain... one day the community is going to have to make a decision on how to purge that data.
- colordrops 12y agoWhat could possibly be so bad as to have every single node in the network compromise the blockchain?
- pjc50 12y agoAt a guess, child porn which would make it illegal to posess?