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imagine if you built a building and then someone purchased it... and everyone that visited it also had to also pay you.... thats a bit like how copyright is today... But what is even worst is that they are trying to make you pay them forever (subscriptions).
Then how do you propose that creatives make a living? Come on, no dawdling!
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I’ve dived deep into IPFS and built several prototypes on top of it. It ended up not being performant enough for me, and that was after heavily modifying the codebase so that it was true p2p browser & server (their webrtc transport had a lot of issues and they didn’t seem too interested in it, but my needs required it as a backbone). The security was also a concern, and the scaling had issues. Pinning millions of sma…
Honestly I think Consensys/IPFS/Libp2p is just some corporatized way to derail real P2P and decentralization. Their libraries are total garbage. Lots of complicated code that simply doesn't work. No documentation. I mean look how much IPFS and Libp2p is pumped but IT DOESN'T WORK. IPNS is a joke. All way overengineered crap that does everything but actually nothing. Look at the $$$ and pedigree behind Consensys it's…
ConsenSys is a company formed by Ethereum co-founder. He has sold out to the big banks, in the opinion of some Consensys shareholders.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/consensys-shareholders-readyi...
"Falls says he believes both MetaMask and Infura - what he calls "the crown jewels" of ConsenSys - could have been decentralized and tokenized, and that their projected use is "completely anathema" to the peer-to-peer principles of the space.
Meanwhile, a number of teams are looking to bring "institutional DeFi" - with its known counterparties and compliant custody arrangements - to the marketplace.
"Forget about the shareholders for a minute," Falls said. "Think about the consequences of the change in the influence over these infrastructure pieces.""
Out of curiosity I was looking at the evolution of IPFS hashes. They have gotten more complex. IPFS now uses base58btc exclusively. That's "btc" as in Bitcoin. Something like rhash, which has traditionally supported hashes used in peer-to-peer protocols, has no support for base58btc.
People are now trying to associate IPFS with "Web3". For example, check out this paper published a couple of weeks ago.
"Studying the workload of a fully decentralised Web3 system: IPFS"
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This exact argument can be used to justify both POV. No one is entitled to have any particular piece of media available to them for free, either? Talented and savvy consumers can find any number of ways to make money to pay for media, like 99.9% of other consumers.
Except that making a living as an author or via another creative pursuit is a luxury and privilege premised upon the hard labor performed by countless others which actually reproduces our society. It’s also not really a matter of entitlement. It’s just an objective fact that trying to gatekeep knowledge behind IP toll bridges is a losing battle which only serves to hinder the development of many realms of human endea…
Something that has always bothered me about z-lib and libgen and so on is the impossibility of being able to tell quality from the different uploads. Sometimes the epubs are very good, with a good cover and metadata as well as chapters and no weird aberrations; other times, they're unreadable. But the only thing you have to judge quality is size and general description of the upload which in this website it's been re…
Pirates being picky, eh? Don't get me wrong, I do appreciate the access that libgen and z-lib provide and think on the whole it is beneficial to society. It is still not paying for people's work though.
I still buy books, but these sites have largely replaced traditional libraries for my partner and I because they allow us to read what we actually want instead of Oprah's book club titles or the 50 digital self-help guides my local library stocks with their limited resources. I recognize that they're simply serving what most people want, but the alternative for me is simply not reading recreationally.
The other side of this conversation is that even if we did get rid of pirate libraries there would still be huge, unresolved issues with author compensation. There's been a dramatic decline in how much authors (and the other people directly involved) take home over the past couple decades [1] that has little to do with the marginal number of pirate readers.
[1] https://authorsguild.org/news/authors-guild-survey-shows-dra...
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I’ve dived deep into IPFS and built several prototypes on top of it. It ended up not being performant enough for me, and that was after heavily modifying the codebase so that it was true p2p browser & server (their webrtc transport had a lot of issues and they didn’t seem too interested in it, but my needs required it as a backbone). The security was also a concern, and the scaling had issues. Pinning millions of sma…
Same experience here. The #1 lesson they failed to learn from Bittorrent and Tox: your DHT must be sessionless . QUIC is not a solution to this particular problem. Although QUIC uses UDP, it still creates and manages sessions. This is incompatible with decentralized scaling. At the scale of Bittorrent and DNS you cannot manage this kind of session state without centralization.
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I’m building a connectivity lib in Golang for relay-assisted p2p over tcp. The implementation is simple, uses only a single network connection when idle, and establishes connections very quickly and reliably. Downside is it’s not decentralized and it’s also not UDP, in case that’s your thing. Oh and BYO auth. Please reach out if it fits your use case.
Contact info? I'm currently developing a p2p tcp library in Golang based off perlin-network/noise which is a very clean implementation but abandoned.
Added to my user page to avoid creating a permanent record. I’ll reply with my personal.
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By that logic, then controlled digital lending -- where a public digital library buy one digital book and "lend" it by artificially limiting the amount of concurrent reader -- should be legal then, since it simulates the limitation of physical library in the digital realm.
It is legal, at least in my country. My library already does this.