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Seeking alternative compression. Hopefully wrong on average. Shameless. Started @getcognito and @bloom

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    John Backus‏ @backus Jun 27

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    The music industry’s fatal mistake was assuming every tech threat was a one off cat and mouse game. Turns out they were actually trying to vaccinate away a quickly evolving virus. BitTorrent emerged as the resistant strain. This may be true for all decentralized tech.https://twitter.com/backus/status/1012113343379734528 …

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    The RIAA Touch: A curse where anything you touch becomes decentralized Napster → Decentralized search protocols Kazaa in-app search → torrent clients decoupled from file discovery Takedown of big trackers like The Pirate Bay → Multitrackers (http://www.bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0012.html …) + DHTs
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      2. John Backus‏ @backus Jun 27

        Napster clarified how liability. If you control who can search and how it works, you’re liable. If you profit from infringement, worse. Next gen (Grokster) went to Supreme Court. If a company targeted pirate users, they can be tried as liable even if search is decentralized.

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      3. John Backus‏ @backus Jun 27

        Grokster precedent killed most of file sharing virus. Further litigation clarified things like in-app search. Limewire and Kazaa shipped client-side search filters, but didn’t use them to stop infringement.

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      4. John Backus‏ @backus Jun 27

        Ever find BitTorrent awkward? Search a sketchy site, download and open some torrent file. Ever notice how screenshots of torrent clients make it look like people use it to torrent Linux and not movies/music? BitTorrent outsourced search liability. Linux is the official use case

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      5. John Backus‏ @backus Jun 27

        BitTorrent’s outsourcing of search liability and non-piracy narrative insulated it from US threats. The RIAA eliminate torrent website in the jurisdictions that made it easy, leaving us with The Pirate Bay in Sweden

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      6. John Backus‏ @backus Jun 27

        With legal breathing room the BitTorrent protocol could evolve into a more resilient form. • Magnet URIs make it easier to mirror and archive The Pirate Bay. Metadata becomes totally decentralized • Torrents have multiple trackers independent of TPB. Killing one does nothing

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      2. spencer‏Verified account @Spencer_Brown Jun 27
        Replying to @backus

        Before the streaming generation, torrenting was the quickest platform for music to organically (and virally) spread - in my opinion, it actually helped make a lot of careers and break artists. Now torrenting music is dead due to the instant gratification of streaming.

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      3. John Backus‏ @backus Jun 27
        Replying to @Spencer_Brown

        Yeah agree. The ability to build communities around categories of torrents was a big deal IMO

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