Lbry.io – decentralized digital library

I tried to add myself to the mailing list at https://lbry.io/signup and got a 500 error.

I'm still going through the docs and all so this probably has been answered before :

How do you deal with takedown and dcma requests? I know ipfs for example has a blacklist for dcma requests.

I'm trying to understand what keeps someone from copying a video and sharing it for less or uploading a movie or TV series.

same here. It's not just you. The quickstart site seams to be down...

I recall lbry.io being posted here before and there were concerns around the naming system, where anyone could take control of a particular name just by giving more money to it at any point.

There's an FAQ up (https://lbry.io/faq/naming) which addresses this concern, and I think the system that they have designed is fantastic. It seems fair, although I'd give a slightly longer time period for a "counter-bid" personally. I'd taking a look at the FAQ before you move away or comment because they answer a lot of different questions

My problem with all of this is I don't care about having the "best name". I want to make a new name, and then work increasing it's value.

This system seems like anyone who wants to make a name but not monitise it will lose. How much of the value of (picking the first things that come into my head) the names FSF, GPL, GCC and clang come from the organisations and products? I bet those names would be worth much more to someone willing to use adverts and spam.

And even if we raised enough money to keep the names out of the hands of spammers, all that's happening is that lbry gets to charge a tax to anyone who has a name that has got even slightly popular.