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Most P2P video system make you seed only the video you started watching, thus making the point about transmitting csam moot.

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If I search for The Best of Both Worlds but open the video to find it's csam and not st:tng then I've unwittingly started watching, and thus potentially seeding, the csam.

But even simple checks like the number of seeders on a torrent will defeat a vast majority of this problem. I would not expect a torrent with 1k seeders to be csam for e.g.

I understand the worry, and it is a difficult problem worth thought but the alarmist virtue signalling helps absolutely no one, victims included.

That might work for popular culture. It's probably a good strategy if you want to watch the latest superhero movie.

I listen to the Butthole Surfers and Amboog-a-Lard - I'm willing to bet a good portion of their material has less seeders than much illegal content do.

Are you not describing perfect as the enemy of good?

A product doesn't need to serve EVERY human on earths needs, just enough of them that it can become large enough that established legacy solutions need to adapt.

I get why you might think this wouldn't be a fit for YOU but rather than argue against it from a niche viewpoint instead maybe look at how if it did exist it could be good for many.

That's pretty unlikely. P2P can have moderation systems. Also that can be solved by only seeding videos you kept watching.

Is that actually done in practice?

There's no popular peer to peer video system in the first place so uh not yet?

Peertube has moderation.

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