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Re:With SESTA/FOSTA, lawmakers failed to separate good inten... by zaarn on Friday March 23, 2018 @06:04AM (#16656489)
I doubt it'll help since the bill makes it problematic to facilitate any illegal behavior. So E2EE won't help, they'll just slap you for facilitating stuff.
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Re:With SESTA/FOSTA, lawmakers failed to separate good inten... by marknadal on Friday March 23, 2018 @10:23AM (#16658430)
It is like Schrodinger's cat, you don't know if it is illegal or not if you can't decrypt it.
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Re:With SESTA/FOSTA, lawmakers failed to separate good inten... by zaarn on Friday March 23, 2018 @12:35PM (#16659862)
If someone finds out someone did do something illegal with it (obtaining plaintext through various means or someone is being convicted by other means) then you're definitely in for it.
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Re:With SESTA/FOSTA, lawmakers failed to separate good inten... by marknadal on Friday March 23, 2018 @07:58PM (#16663720)
Then every single P2P host will have to take it down, which might take a long while with how slow DMCA/whatever takes.

Myself, personally, I'd comply with legal takedowns because I don't want to get thrown in prison. But that doesn't mean it won't be exceptionally hard for things to be removed from a cryptographically secure P2P network.

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