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Re:Storj – Blockchain-based decentralized storage network by u124556 on Wednesday June 11, 2014 @05:13PM (#7880472)
With all these blockchain based permanent storage service the question that always comes to me is: What happens when someone uploads Cheese Pizza? What about copyrighted content?
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Re:Storj – Blockchain-based decentralized storage network by super3 on Wednesday June 11, 2014 @06:23PM (#7880786)
Data is not stored on the blockchain in our system. Simply "file pointers".
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Re:Storj – Blockchain-based decentralized storage network by ceejayoz on Wednesday June 11, 2014 @09:27PM (#7881365)
That argument hasn't worked well for torrent sites.
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Re:Storj – Blockchain-based decentralized storage network by gk1 on Wednesday June 11, 2014 @05:28PM (#7880553)
That ran through my mind too. Getting paid for your unused storage sounds nice, but what happens when illegal content ends up on your drive?
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Re:Storj – Blockchain-based decentralized storage network by kibibu on Wednesday June 11, 2014 @11:04PM (#7881598)
Presumably "Cheese Pizza" is slang for child exploitation material?
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Re:Storj – Blockchain-based decentralized storage network by martindale on Wednesday June 11, 2014 @06:01PM (#7880685)
The idea of "illegal" content will fade, replaced by methods that introduce scarcity to digital assets.
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