[snvzz]

For chilling effect, they can just sue a few ipfs users who happen to be mirrowing the files.

IPFS really needs to move to a darknet. It's a major privacy issue when it's possible to see which user has a file cached (e.g. has used the file).

[evgy]

As long as you don't have control on which files are stored on the machine, they'll need to sue the IPFS protocol inventors, good luck with that. I the meanwhile, let's just have fun and leave these dark thought behind ^_^

[3np]

You seem confused. This is (fortunately!) still not how law works in either theory or practice anywhere I am aware.

Besides, the IPFS operator/client is always in full control by design. IPFS is not a darknet. You may be confusing it with Hyphanet or Freenet.

[snvzz]

>they'll need to sue the IPFS protocol inventors, good luck with that.

Eh, Nintendo doesn't need to be on the right in order to sue.

And has a long history of forcing defendants into awful settlements, through sheer power of being bigger than the target.

Refer to the story of the Yuzu and Citra emulators, for a recent example.