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There should not be any physical centralization. Use a series of redundant IPFS pins and/or torrents or some decentralized database of some kind.


They've tried for years and nobody steps up. And as it turns out they couldn't even maintain torrent files at scale. Broken for years, and still no strategy for versioning them when metadata or files change.

Also until recently their whole model was storing physical material (on an active fault line next to an oil refinery) then allowing digital access to it. Courts ruled that illegal for modern works.




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