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Re:Ask HN: Before We Spend Millions, What Do You Think of Th... by ynniv on Wednesday February 20, 2019 @12:28PM (#19209776)
IP licensing can't be enforced outside of governments... Either you have enforcement and possible censorship, or you have no enforcement. The stated goal was to provide some form of payment system for content, but in a truly distributed system any valuable content will be paid for once and then reposted without payment required.
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Re:Ask HN: Before We Spend Millions, What Do You Think of Th... by kauffj on Wednesday February 20, 2019 @12:51PM (#19210061)
The ability to repost content without payment required is already true of every existing digital media distribution system. We do not claim to improve this situation.

LBRY does not provide IP enforcement. The primary reasons people pay for content when they could get all content for free are: 1) their personal morality and 2) fear of legal repercussions

The same will be true on LBRY.

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