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by Vektorceraptor 98 days ago
Hi, if you are still interested - I updated the post/paragraph and included:

Another approach would be not to make the files 1 TB in size, but only about 50 MB, while distributing them collectively. This would spread responsibility across many participants and reduce the individual burden of liability. If many users offered such files, automated scanners or bots would effectively end up cluttering themselves with useless data, without any single participant impacting the system to a degree that could be framed as deliberate destruction. [...] A possible safeguard for legitimate scanners would be to operate only within defined time limits or request quotas. In contrast, uncontrolled or unrestricted scanners would gradually overwhelm themselves with this distributed noise.