Stupid question: when people inevitably use this for pirate content, and the feds try to shut the service down ... what's the plan?

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paxys an hour ago | parent | next [-]

They can't shut down the service because there is no single service. They can go after individual servers, and that is fine. The admin is responsible for what happens on their server.

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dymk 27 minutes ago | parent [-]

Why would an admin run a server if they might have the feds knocking at their door? Sure, people might run nodes that host only their content, but they sure are disincentivized from running any sort of shared service.

This is the same problem as TOR exit nodes and why 3 letter agencies run most of them.

	▲	mywittyname 22 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Maybe the live where the feds can't get them?

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rpgbr an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

The feds will go after the instance admin that is sharing pirate content.

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dewey an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Someone is still hosting the content and paying for resources just like with every other service distributed or not so it doesn't really add anything new to the equation.

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treyd an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

The plan is the same as it always has been. It's no different than running an open FTP server.