Is a real life Pied Piper "decentralized" internet even desirable? I kind of like not having a big chunk of the internet on my hard drive and serving it up to other clients.
I’m particularly curious about the moral/legal aspects of serving websites run by others on one’s own machine. Who takes responsibility when illegal content is discovered? And how does one make sure that the illegal content is not redistributed?
(“Illegal” here is a euphemism for anything considered morally wrong to consume or distribute by most of society)
Could never be erased or censored, never go down, never be taken over by telecoms, yeah it has some desirable properties. If you have high speed internet you are most likely already taking part in an internet sharing scheme already.
Never be taken down by telecoms seems like quite a stretch, since they can filter the technology every single one of these distributed platforms rely on: TCP/IP. VPNs won't help if every node must broadcast to other nodes for the network to function, and thus giving away their identity of being a participant in whichever network.
