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While I agree that regulation favours big companies, potential competitors will base themselves offshore, or create distributed apps that have no jurisdiction.

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Both strategies have been tried and are unlikely to hold up in court.

A bit challenging to sue a project when it has no owners and no jurisdiction.

PS: Jonathan Strange: Great books and even better TV.

Nor customers/users.

The problem is that 'normal' people don't know how to use most distributed/encrypted/stick-it-to-the-man products, nor do they care.

'Normal' people already use distributed content: Google and Facebook's content is held in data servers all across the planet. The next stage is to distribute the governance of that content, which similarly, most users won't be aware of.

This is just a pedantic disagreement about what "distributed" means. It's all about context.

Somebody has to host the content. You can sue those people. P2P filesharing works the same way. Normal people get unfriendly letters from lawyers.

And yet people still download Torrents.

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