If you want to kill a decentralized protocol, suing early and often is maybe the WORST approach
Every lawsuit clarifies what nextgen should decentralize and obfuscate. After 5 years, RIAA showed BitTorrent how to win
If USG wants to kill BTC, first move needs to be nuclear 
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There’s a nice analogy to antibiotic-resistant bacteria here.
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John Backus @backusThe 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 …Show this thread1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
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Aha, so you’re way ahead of me already :)
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