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Re:The Internet Archive is waging war on misinformation by kd3 on Wednesday September 18, 2019 @08:21PM (#21011967)
What we need is good p2p tech that will enable distributed storage that is impossible to censor while also automatically providing gazillion terabytes of storage distributed over all peers. Problem solved.
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Re:The Internet Archive is waging war on misinformation by OrgNet on Wednesday September 18, 2019 @09:31PM (#21012355)
I would like that too but the government will make laws and all the peers from the p2p network will get scared
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Re:The Internet Archive is waging war on misinformation by kd3 on Thursday September 19, 2019 @12:02PM (#21017489)
Making laws is one thing, enforcing them is a completely different story. The government has no chance to survive and should make their time.
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Re:The Internet Archive is waging war on misinformation by afiori on Thursday September 19, 2019 @05:56AM (#21014776)
There is an argument to be made that archival and distribution are two different things.

There are justifiable cases where you might want to remove something from the public internet. Some problems of p2p distributed proposals is that the only way to take down a single bit is to dismantle the entire network.

In this sense a federated system is objectively better.

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Re:The Internet Archive is waging war on misinformation by OrgNet on Thursday September 19, 2019 @09:28PM (#21022498)
> There is an argument to be made that archival and distribution are two different things.

of course download and upload are 2 different things...

which is why Torrent users often get emails about their download activities...

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Re:The Internet Archive is waging war on misinformation by afiori on Friday September 20, 2019 @06:36AM (#21025125)
This meaning that a closed archive is still a valuable archive.

(For torrents I believe that there is (in many jurisdictions) a presumption that if you are downloading torrents then you are automatically guilty of distributions; similarly how in many places being drunk in a turned off car can be sufficient for a DUI)

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