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Topic: Distributed web – Ctrl blog
Daniel Aleksandersen
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2022-01-24T17:31:00Z
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2022-01-24T17:31:00Z
2022-01-24T17:31:00Z
How a Hypercore P2P innovation could bring more privacy to IPFS
IPFS want’s to replace HTTPS as the web’s content delivery protocol. However, it can’t do that without improving on user privacy. Hypercore has the solution.
<p>The InterPlanetary File System (IPFS), like many other peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing networks, has a privacy problem. IPFS clients constantly broadcast what they want to download and what is available for upload. Anyone that can observe your network traffic, like an internet service provider (ISP) or other snoops, can see what you’re sharing.</p> <p><a href="https://www.ctrl.blog/entry/dht-privacy-discovery-hash.html">Read more …</a></p>
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2020-12-30T00:39:00Z
2021-01-15T03:17:00Z
Brave adds support for IPFS distributed P2P websites
The Brave browser beta has added support for the InterPlanetary File System (IPFS), a peer-to-peer protocol alternative to the traditional centralized web server.
<p>The Brave browser recently added support for the InterPlanetary File System (IPFS) protocol in its beta release channel (desktop only). IPFS is a peer-to-peer (P2P) protocol that can be used in web browsers to visit websites that are hosted by the website’s visitors instead of a central web server. This is called the distributed web. For the last two decades, the open web has been on a steady course into the hands of a few behemoth multinational companies. The distributed web is a tool that can wrangle back control from the few and hand it back to the many.</p> <p><a href="https://www.ctrl.blog/entry/brave-ipfs.html">Read more …</a></p>
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2020-09-23T20:21:00Z
2020-09-23T20:21:00Z
What happened to BitTorrent’s Project Maelstrom web browser?
In 2015, BitTorrent Inc introduced a P2P-revolution for website distribution. But it got side-tracked by investors ogling the “content” business along the way.
<p>In April 2015, BitTorrent Inc. announced the public beta of Project Maelstrom; its new experimental peer-to-peer web browser. The browser reimagined the web using the company’s name sake file-sharing protocol. Websites would be distributed equally by its visitors instead of being hosted by an expensive central web server. The company published a beta and some blog posts, but then never mentioned Project Maelstrom again. What happened to it?</p> <p><a href="https://www.ctrl.blog/entry/bittorrent-maelstrom.html">Read more …</a></p>
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2019-04-08T10:21:00Z
2019-05-20T16:04:00Z
Copyright and the distributed peer-to-peer web
An investigation into the legal-side and international copyright law when publishing on distributed peer-to-peer internet alternatives.
<p>The distributed web overturns many of the assumptions of the traditional centralized web especially when it comes to how everything is distributed. Copyright laws protect a creator’s exclusive rights to distribute their creative works. So, how does all of this work when you as a creator publish something on a distributed website? And how does it work for the end users?</p> <p><a href="https://www.ctrl.blog/entry/copyright-p2p-dweb.html">Read more …</a></p>
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2019-02-13T14:47:00Z
2020-09-23T19:11:00Z
The distributed web isn’t ready for Runet cutoff from the Internet
Russia to test disconnecting from the global Internet. Peer-to-peer distributed internet alternatives won’t survive after the Runet cutoff.
<p>Russia is preparing a nation-wide experiment where the whole country temporarily disconnects from the global Internet to see if the country can rely on Runet alone. The effort is supposed to help Russia prepare for potential digital warfare against the nation, but some analysts are also speculating whether this is the first step towards deploying a nation-spanning censorship machine like “the great firewall of China.”</p> <p><a href="https://www.ctrl.blog/entry/dweb-readiness-runet.html">Read more …</a></p>