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Re:IPFS is the Distributed Web by dharma1 on Monday October 24, 2016 @04:09AM (#12777299)
Torrents work for content that is heavily seeded, but you also have a lot of content that has ~0-5 seeders with very bad bandwidth.

I don't see how IPFS tackles the problems of guaranteed availability and enough redundancy while relying on volunteers to mirror and serve content.

Also, if you want to DDoS content, it sounds like all you need to do is find the IPs of the nodes that host the content you want to target (which might not be many, and I guess become visible to you once you access/download that content) and knock them out

Unless I missed something?

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Re:IPFS is the Distributed Web by Senji on Monday October 24, 2016 @10:15AM (#12778929)
Have fun when all your DDOS bot ips get added to null route on my ISPs level.
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Re:IPFS is the Distributed Web by clueless404 on Monday October 24, 2016 @01:17PM (#12780776)
It's not like the grandparent is advocating DDOSing, he is just pointing out that doing so is trivial for less popular content. This is something that IPFS doesn't address, but that their marketing fluff implies would IPFS would take care of.

Good luck adding all DDOS bot IPs to your null route.

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