alt Hacker NewsIt's insane to me that in 2008 a bunch of pervs decentralized storage and made hentai@home to host hentai comics. Yet here we are almost 20 years later and we haven't generalized this solution. Yes I'm aware of the privacy issues h@h has (as a hoster you're exposing your real IP and people reading comics are exposing their IP to you) but those can be solved with tunnels, the real value is the redundant storage.
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fuzzer371 • today at 7:01 AM
> a bunch of pervs
Not everyone who watches hentai is a perv
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The illegal side of hosting, sharing, and mirroring technology, as it were, is much more free to chase technical excellence at all costs.
There are lessons to be learned in that. For example, for that population, bandwidth efficiency and information leakage control invite solutions that are suboptimal for an organization that would build market share on licensing deals and growth maximization.
Without an overriding commercial growth directive you also align development incentives differently.