CLclueless404·Oct 27, 2016
> Yea, this is where you're mistaken. It cannot make you distribute anything!
Oh, really?
"In some cases, nodes must work for their
blocks. In the case that a node has nothing that its peers want (or nothing at all), it seeks the pieces its peers want, with lower priority than what the node wants itself. This incentivizes nodes to cache and disseminate rare pieces, even if they are not interested in them directly."
https://github.com/ipfs/papers/blob/master/ipfs-cap2pfs/ipfs...
What's to say BitSwap won't proactively decide to download and start seeding some rare pieces of kiddy porn?
> You only distribute what you download.
As if that wasn't bad enough.
> Don't download kiddy porn, and you won't distribute kiddy porn.
How are you to know if a hash contains kiddy porn or not?
You need to know if the hash contains kiddy porn before you dow
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nload it, but to know if it contains kiddy porn you have to download it. Classic Catch-22.
The only rational response to a system like this is not to use it.
> How does BitTorrent protect me from unknowingly downloading kiddy porn?
By not randomly downloading stuff from the Internet. By only downloading torrents, I have explicitly chosen to retrieve (hopefully from vetted and reputable sources). By giving me complete control and feedback on what I'm seeding.
Obviously not ideal, but far better than what IPFS does.
I also don't get how this central censorship authority is going to work. I very much doubt IPFS wants to become the Internet Police for Saudi Arabia.
The whole thing is a futile attempt to appease lawmakers and dictators, since any filtering will be done clientside. Nothing is stopping the client from ignoring any blacklists.
Any great or small firewall will just find it easier to block the whole thing than do some silly whack-a-mole deep packet inspection.
How is IPFS not going to become a haven for kiddy porn aficionados?
If the censorship authority publishes a list of blacklisted hashes, that's the same as publishing a directory of all the available kiddy porn. Oops!
If the censorship authority requires each hash to be queried individually, it becomes a real honeypot for the state surveillance machinery.
Not exactly great choices.