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Re:Show HN: Rarbg on IPFS by jazzyjackson on Sunday June 04, 2023 @01:43PM (#36187641)
it's content addressed, if an ISP was so keen it would be simple to blackhole requests for a particular file (of course, one need only to change 1 bit to get a new content hash, but you have to redistribute the new file from scratch
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Re:Show HN: Rarbg on IPFS by dietr1ch on Sunday June 04, 2023 @05:51PM (#36189938)
I don't know about how IPFS is implemented, but you could use content-addressed blocks underneath every file too. This way flipping a bit means that only one underlying block changes, and that the new file would share N-1 blocks with the previous one, making redistribution only require sharing a single block.
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Re:Show HN: Rarbg on IPFS by SpaghettiCthulu on Sunday June 04, 2023 @09:12PM (#36191146)
Well, wouldn't they just blackhole all the relevant blocks then?
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Re:Show HN: Rarbg on IPFS by dietr1ch on Sunday June 04, 2023 @10:46PM (#36191677)
Yes. Probably there's no replacement for privacy and anonymity being baked in into the system.
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