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by thriftwy 3061 days ago
Did they just invent BitTorrent?

It doesn't have blockchain to be precise, which won't hurt IMO because discovery becomes more problematic with time. But the rest of stuff is here.

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i guess other peer to peer networks, you can always bring a person to court over sharing something. Whereas blockchain it can be more anonymous and content can be split on many machines?

Let me know if i am thinking of this right. i think we all could use a little more clarification on how this changes things over existing techs

Whereas with blockchain you can bring everybody to court because they all share the same infringing material.

There was a long discusion about what happens when blockchain contains some piece of information That Is Forbidden To Possess. You could probably claim you didn't have the intent. But with Pirate Blockchain you sure do.