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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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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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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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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