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Re:Project Gutenberg blocks access from Germany by tehlike on Saturday March 03, 2018 @04:06PM (#16511578)
Can anything be made using ipfs?
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Re:Project Gutenberg blocks access from Germany by einrealist on Sunday March 04, 2018 @07:00AM (#16514408)
Isn't IPFS peer to peer? Then it would be no different than using Torrent clients. Users would be just noticed or sued individually.
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Re:Project Gutenberg blocks access from Germany by mirimir on Saturday March 03, 2018 @07:20PM (#16512529)
Certainly, given that each ebook could be a static hash. But you'd need to revise index pages periodically. And I'm not sure how search could be implemented. Except through Google, which does index pages from https://ipfs.io/ipfs/ . However, I gather that IPFS respects take-down requests, so you might need to use another gateway.
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