What if it was only a directory of torrents? Not hosting the content itself, but indexing it.
(I've never developed anything with blockchain or torrents, so my apologies if there's a technical reason why this sucks.)
If I understand Pirate Bay and other torrent sites correctly, they don't host any content. They just index what's available P2P.
I'm not sure how large that index would become, but I could imagine chunking the index itself out so that it doesn't take much room on any one user's machine.
The chunking of the index could theoretically be done in such a way that no individual chunk would have any useable information, so no individual user could be accused of linking to illegal content. (I think that's conceivable? Again, not sure.)
(Please note: This is pure hypotheticals. I have zero interest in seeing such a system come about.)
Indexing has always been the easy part. It’s the hosting that’s the real problem.
With hosting, you can either have it centralised so users are anonymised from each other (but it’s easier to take down centralised repositories) or decentralised but where users can see each other (but then it’s easier for copyright holders to go after individuals). You can’t really have it both decentralised and anonymous.
(I've never developed anything with blockchain or torrents, so my apologies if there's a technical reason why this sucks.)
If I understand Pirate Bay and other torrent sites correctly, they don't host any content. They just index what's available P2P.
I'm not sure how large that index would become, but I could imagine chunking the index itself out so that it doesn't take much room on any one user's machine.
The chunking of the index could theoretically be done in such a way that no individual chunk would have any useable information, so no individual user could be accused of linking to illegal content. (I think that's conceivable? Again, not sure.)
(Please note: This is pure hypotheticals. I have zero interest in seeing such a system come about.)