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To find compelling decentralized technologies, look for Straussian readings of new tech. If you judged BitTorrent at face value in 2002, you might have said "big whoop so we can distribute Linux faster" and missed the strong legal defensibility that helped it win the p2p warhttps://twitter.com/backus/status/1020828924886986753 …
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Very pure example of BitTorrent outsourcing liability to The Pirate Bay. Compare BitTorrent's blog post on improved decentralization to The Pirate Bay:
BitTorrent: Thanks to DHTs, anyone can cheaply host a website
The Pirate Bay: Thanks to DHTs, we can't be killed! pic.twitter.com/RjlWXeBtvK
5:40 PM - 21 Jul 2018
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