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I think they ought to tread very carefully and very lightly. Imagine if there was an internet where you can't just remove something. Sure, you can see the IP address of the people hosting/distributing the material, but there are numerous ways to disguise that.

Suddenly, via P2P everyone becomes their own client _and_ server, and the _only_ way to remove content is to ensure everyone in the pool no longer has it.

Good luck with that.

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What of it?

That's already how the world works (it's not limited to the Internet).

Public information is public. Someone has already saved it.

> Imagine if there was an internet where you can't just remove something.

Isn't that exactly the point of distributed services? There's no difference between the horror scenario you're describing and the ideal that other people are striving for. If you removed your opening and closing sentence, I'd have no way to tell whether this was an advertisement or a criticism.

Distributed services really are an area where one person's meat is another person's poison.

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