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Re:Why the Internet Needs IPFS by esfandia on Sunday October 04, 2015 @11:23PM (#10329821)
The OP asks an interesting question though: why would I run an IPFS node if it just benefits the company and not me?
Re:Why the Internet Needs IPFS by reitanqild on Monday October 05, 2015 @02:27AM (#10330222)
Maybe you won't.

IIRC local machines by default only caches stuff for a very short time which makes sense for personal computers.

On company networks however I'd expect sysadmins to run nodes to reduce upstream bandwidth usage.

Edit: see also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10329262 the specific example is the exact opposite but I see no technical reason why you cannot do this the other way around.

Re:Why the Internet Needs IPFS by david_ar on Monday October 05, 2015 @03:54AM (#10330409)
There will be incentives in the future, both in terms of promoting a good seeding/leeching ratio like bittorrent ("bitswap"), as well as http://filecoin.io/
Re:Why the Internet Needs IPFS by hexscrews on Monday October 05, 2015 @09:44AM (#10331730)
And how would you deal with materials that could get you either dead or imprisioned? Can you elect not to host content? For example, in china, you have a situation where you can be materially affected by political content. https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/2015/10/in-china-... Or what if you happen to live in a country hostile to LGBT content, like russia or Zimbabwe, where it may be dangerous to host such content?
Re:Why the Internet Needs IPFS by clacke2 on Saturday October 10, 2015 @06:19PM (#10367214)
That is exactly what ipfs does, in contrast to e.g. freenet. Mirroring is opt-in.
Re:Why the Internet Needs IPFS by DrRobinson on Monday October 05, 2015 @05:09AM (#10330616)
Because you might like that company/organization/website. As the IPFS dev said in other replys in this thread, you can choose which sites you want to help