How the Catalan government uses IPFS to sidestep Spain's legal block

Re:How the Catalan government uses IPFS to sidestep Spain's ... by TheLugal on Friday September 29, 2017 @10:28PM (#15370861)

You can't just look at data from the internet without touching it, you need to download it. The same holds true when reading data from the IPFS network.

In the process, you make it available for anyone else who ask for it, but only for a limited time; until the Garbage Collector (GC) runs. If I remember correctly, the GC run once every hour or so, so you probably won't reshare the data for longer than that.

You need to pin the data if you want to keep resharing it. This effectively tells the GC to not touch it.

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Re:How the Catalan government uses IPFS to sidestep Spain's ... by NetStrikeForce on Friday September 29, 2017 @10:34PM (#15370886)

That was very clear, thanks!

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Re:How the Catalan government uses IPFS to sidestep Spain's ... by StavrosK on Saturday September 30, 2017 @07:34AM (#15372371)

You can kind of think of it like seeding a torrent, and pinning ensures the seeding won't stop until you unpin.

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Re:How the Catalan government uses IPFS to sidestep Spain's ... by NetStrikeForce on Wednesday October 04, 2017 @10:17AM (#15400583)

So the service would be the equivalent of a seedbox?

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