I absolutely love the concept and the underlying moral reasoning for why we need IPFS!

One of the first questions that came to me: Is there any way to add a forward error correcting code, like an erasure code to IPFS? I didn't find any discussion of this in the IPFS paper.

This seems somewhat critical to be able to compete with modern centralized storage systems which are likely to use FEC extensively to provide the level of redundancy that customers expect. Modern FEC codes can provide phenomenal levels of redundancy with less than 50% overhead. IPFS seems to rely on many fully-redundant copies?