Potential Attack Target Suppose some genre of conteent is under attack by powerful adversaries. Lets take political satire as a thought experiment in which powerful politicians are attacking sites and Web archives hosting it by sending bogus DMCA takedowns, suing for defamation, buying up their hosting platforms, getting their flying monkeys to flood them with spam, and so on. Below the fold I discuss the problem facing the defense. White Hats You and a few friends get together to fight back. You think about setting up the not-for-profit LOOPS (Library Of Offensive Political Satire) to collect and preserve it, but quickly realize it would be immediately sued into bankruptcy. Inspired by BitTorrent, the alternative you see is to write and distribute the software for a permissionless, peer-to-peer network. It would use erasure coding to ensure that each node held only a fraction of any individual satire, but each satire was held in aggregate by many nodes. That promises no central point…
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