Decentralization is one strategy in a bigger picture, including: • OSS (eMule harder to kill than eDonkey) • Nonprofits (pure torrent trackers argue this) • Diff in intl law (Sweden > US for anti-copyright) • Reducing impact of takedowns (Pirate Bay hosts own DB archive)
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Decentralized tech, OSS, nonprofit entities, international law, and resilience to takedowns all but resilience to legal systems in different ways. It is hard to understand what to decentralize and when to stop decentralizing if we don’t understand how other tools are used.
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Again, this isn’t a manifesto I’m just speaking about the themes we see historically and today for mainstream stuff. These patterns emerge for Tor, BitTorrent, and Bitcoin.
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Citations: • "there's no way for [the RIAA] to pursue the entity eMule" (see pic) • "He also fails to see how a non-profit service … can be seen as online commerce " https://torrentfreak.com/top-torrent-tracker-knocked-offline-over-infringing-hashes-150406/ … • Sweden: https://yalelawtech.org/2011/02/23/a-pirates-life-in-sweden/ … • https://thepiratebay.org/static/dump/ https://twitter.com/backus/status/1016428419674882048 …pic.twitter.com/NG1ElIhKr8
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