[buboard]

> The security and maintenance requirements

thats why you need one of the sharing protocols, like IPFS that make security everyone's responsibility, not just yours.

I don't get why you think cloud solution is so much better. Glorified CDNs are a clumsy intermediate solution until internet connections get fast enough for everyone, that running a sharing node will have negligible impact. E.g. no cloud provider can compete with Popcorn Time in speed, despite billions of dollars of effort.

[wslh]

> thats why you need one of the sharing protocols, like IPFS that make security everyone's responsibility, not just yours.

Everyone responsability = No one responsability.

If your data is lost by IPFS you don't have anyone to sue.

[buboard]

You could always pay a host to host your files for you and distribute them to IPFS. nobody argues that (e.g.) IPFS is replacing all the functions of the cloud. but it certainly decentralizes things, gives less power to The Man, and allows competitors to emerge.