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Comment by zerotolerance | Hacker News Reader

I wonder what IP lawyers think about republishing works without permission into a network where nothing can be deleted.

I was listening to this Hashing It Out Episode with the founders of Storj[1] yesterday. Apparently IPFS isn't even that resilient. The Storj founders said that if you take a look at the IPFS sub-Reddit, half of the links don't work. That's not to discount what you're asking about, but it seems like the gamification for keeping IPFS files up forever is not a huge issue at the moment.

[1] - http://thebitcoinpodcast.com/hashing-it-out-34/

StorJ is a incentivized (people get paid to make things available) and IPFS is not. They explain this in the podcast and mention it several times.

IPFS is perfectly resilient as long as the network participants have the interest in keeping the content available.

Yeah, IPFS is still waiting for FileCoin to be implemented. For now, your best bet is to run your own IPFS gateway with your data pinned to it, and perhaps ask fellow IPFS enthusiasts to do the same.

Ipfs doesn't bring anything new for this case. Probably the same as they think of any website containing republished works without permission.

Once everyone with a copy deletes it, it disappears. Both for ipfs and the internet on general.

Except the discovery of said works would give IPFS the advantage. If a website is taken down or removes the works, finding it somewhere else becomes the challenge, even though it still exists elsewhere.

With IPFS however, anyone with the file makes it available to anyone looking for it, regardless of who has it, or how many copies there are.

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