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by ezdiy 3119 days ago
> IPFS feels closest to it as of now.

I'm rather skeptic. IMO, IPFS is just overengineered bittorrent. At the lowest layer, the semantics are the same, except with really bad ideas thrown into the mix - wantlist instead of bitmaps, forcing DAG in places where there's no use for it, all driving overall performance of the network into the ground.
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nerdponx 3119 days ago
AFAIK you can't get sued because you accidentally are hosting a fragment of copyrighted material over IPFS, whereas seeding coyprighted material over Bittorrent is a crime in the USA.
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ezdiy 3118 days ago
What do you mean "accidentaly"? You either have the file pinned, or not. If its not pinned, you're not seeding anything. If it's pinned, you're liable same as with BT.
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