A search engine for searching books in the Z-Library index on the IPFS network

Post by 1vuio0pswjnm7 » Fri, Dec 30, 2022, 6:59 PM UTC

1vuio0pswjnm7 wrote: post #122

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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…

Peer-to-peer is too general and too useful to be spoilt by "blockchain". But there is so much money behind this crap it is a formidable virus that can infect any project. 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 -…

Post by xtian » Fri, Dec 30, 2022, 7:37 PM UTC

ROTMetro wrote: post #123

xtian wrote: post #81

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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…

You want to kill the goose so you can consume the eggs. You want to steal their products but condemn the creators. You must not know creative types and how much most of them sacrifice to try and create from the passion inside them.

Post by KirillPanov » Fri, Dec 30, 2022, 8:31 PM UTC

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That should probably read "doesn't scale without centralization". The full answer to that question is way, way, way beyond the appropriate length for an HN comment. DHTs need to accept requests from any random IP address, anywhere on the Internet. If you allocate state, you have to deal with resource exhaustion attacks. Dealing with them turns out to be way harder than anybody thinks when they first start down this p…

You can restrict DHTs to accept well-formed requests and further restrict them using a web of trust. With a large enough network and an on onboarding path using nodes that have higher bandwidth, it can work to mitigate that vector I’d think. It would be really hard to launch that attack with a DHT that implements appropriate pruning, drop, and block rules for bad behavior. All that can feed into a personal (& autonom…

Post by dredmorbius » Fri, Dec 30, 2022, 9:02 PM UTC

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A wealth-indexed fee averaging about $5/mo per household in the US and collected through broadband providers could provide access to every work ever published, pay authors, and eliminate both the need and practice of piracy. The publishing industry prefers, however, to hoard its Smaug-gold, make criminals of the curious, deny access both to the vast majority of the population and to the vast majority of works, all to…

I am opposed to copyright in its current form, but this is a very naïve suggestion. How exactly do you distribute the fee among authors? Who collects it? How does dispute resolution work, if I don't feel like I'm being compensated fairly? Can I opt out if I don't read books? What if everyone opts out and just continues pirating? Let's say I just published one hundred books of semi-AI generated bad fiction. When can I…

Post by dredmorbius » Fri, Dec 30, 2022, 9:08 PM UTC

xtian wrote: post #61

ROTMetro wrote: post #39

I hope every project you work on has it's source code stolen resulting in failure. And this is coming from a pretty crappy person, but this website sure does love stealing from authors (so that it can enjoy the fruits of their labor).

No one is entitled to a particular form of revenue. We live in an attention-based economy. Talented and savvy authors can find any number of ways to derive revenue from the attention their work attracts apart from charging IP tolls. If not, they can always get a job where they have no ownership stake in the fruits of their labor, like almost every other job and 99.9% of people writing code for money.