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I pretty much saw this coming. Posted to a IPFS group last year about using IPFS to make a decentralized soundcloud clone. I was lucky enough to get a response from Juan, the creator of IPFS.

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/ipfs-users/1Mu2Vh8sh...

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I honestly don't understand the hate. If you're going to DV me at least take a sec to read the thread or let me know what your issue is. The thread has some good responses from Juan; that's really the only reason I posted it here. I thought of going decentralized because (at the time) I loved soundcloud. I used it as an artist and also as a listener. I've been around long enough to know that their model was not sustainable and eventually all the great content would disappear. Decentralized makes sense for something like SC. Let the people who find it valuable share in the costs of serving it a la bit torrent.

I see 2 problems with this approach:

1) IPFS does not work in the browser.

2) People might not want to share because of the copyright issue.

There's an alpha implementation of the IPFS and libp2p stack here: https://github.com/ipfs/js-ipfs and https://github.com/libp2p/js-libp2p

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