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Re:LBRY does to publishing, what Bitcoin did to money by rodonn on Wednesday January 06, 2021 @08:36PM (#25666086)
Seems like it will end up primarily being CSAM (child sex abuse material), pirated copyrighted materials, and other content that reputable hosts restrict. Unclear why anyone who has legal content for which they own the rights would want to use this.

If you did publish your own original content, what stops someone else from downloading it and then re-uploading it with a lower fee?

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Re:LBRY does to publishing, what Bitcoin did to money by thayne on Wednesday January 06, 2021 @10:15PM (#25666845)
> Unclear why anyone who has legal content for which they own the rights would want to use this.

Because they don't want to use traditional content distribution channels that require content creators to agree to one-sided terms (in favor of the distributor).

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Re:LBRY does to publishing, what Bitcoin did to money by osgovernment on Wednesday January 06, 2021 @09:38PM (#25666620)
It does nothing more for CSAM material than IPFS. Both can adequately block these from nodes too. It doesn't provide anonymity either, so I don't see how this will be primarily used for CSAM.
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Re:LBRY does to publishing, what Bitcoin did to money by yjftsjthsd-h on Wednesday January 06, 2021 @10:12PM (#25666822)
> Unclear why anyone who has legal content for which they own the rights would want to use this.

It's Not YouTube. That's pretty compelling.

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