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Re:Cybiko by abdullahkhalids on Saturday January 07, 2023 @08:44PM (#34295131)
The other legal problem is that any p2p communication system is very quickly taken over by the sharing of copyrighted content, and then by stuff like child porn. This is, for example, what happened recently with Firefox Send.

For any p2p system, law enforcement go after the creators of the system, because that's the only entity they can go after besides those who actually commit the crimes.

However, if one builds a federated system with moderation tools built in, then law enforcement go after the ones running "bad" instances rather than the system builders.

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Re:Cybiko by eternityforest on Sunday January 08, 2023 @03:11AM (#34297131)
There's (kind of) a way around that, if you don't build sharing things to the public in an anonymous way into your system.

SyncThing and Jami are fine because they don't provide publishing tools the way BitTorrent does, just personal use and private group tools.

There's still lots of unexplored potential that has nothing to do with publishing, but most P2P devs seem to be most interesting in trying to get rid of all centralization entirely and build a whole new internet.

I don't follow Mozilla news, but it looks like FF Send claims they closed because people were using it to ship malware.

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