I think people don’t notice that IPFS is not built for privacy- you are broadcasting that you have possession of a particular hash, not a smart place to be a pirate.
I mean, maybe? It's trivial to add noise to a file to produce a different hash. It's a neutral routing protocol that doesn't make prescriptions one way or the other.
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I think people don’t notice that IPFS is not built for privacy- you are broadcasting that you have possession of a particular hash, not a smart place to be a pirate.
Doesn't torrent have the same issue?
I mean, maybe? It's trivial to add noise to a file to produce a different hash. It's a neutral routing protocol that doesn't make prescriptions one way or the other.
Isn’t this a whole load of pirate ebooks though?
Educational and heritage books. Piracy is when you don't learn but profit. You may learn, though.
Have a look what the fair use doctrine tells us https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_use
You are welcome to always use VPN. No problem to have a plain decentralized network without privacy features.