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by 3np 472 days ago
Er, no.

In this sense IPFS is just a transport protocol. Hosting illegal metarial over it is not inherently safer than doing the same over e.g. Bittorrent.

It's enough to go after the endpoints. Which is actually easier than with HTTP or Bittorrent because it is really hard to properly proxy and run IPFS without inadvertently leaking metadata. Being able to run IPFS anonymously over e.g. Tor has in the past been referred to as an anti-goal by maintainers[0].

In practice today even that's probably not necessary, just go after the top 5 or so public http bridges like dweb.link and cf...

[0]: Anyone aware of alternative implementations or forks with a different stance on this?
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evgy 471 days ago
All the games listed are open sourced.
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3np 471 days ago
> All the games listed are open source

If you indeed have obtained a license allowing you share binaries of games like Mario Kart, Advance Wars and Final Fantasy VI Advance, I assume you also need to provide a copy of that license, and sources upon request.

So unless that is just a blatant lie, please also share the licenses and sources.

...Got any browser 0-days to share while you're at it?

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