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Benet: IPFS makes DDoS attacks impossible or computationally intractable
“The other case is, hey, like, if there's some really popular piece of content, and suddenly it gets replicated to tons of people, now the DOS attack gets way harder, right? Like, now, now you have to DOS, Thousands of people. And so it's not fundamentally, in,…”
Benet: Decentralized internet tech directly opposes Google's data control model
“I think this kind of tech is stuff that Google might be interested in funding from the perspective of Google funds a lot of protocols and funds a lot of research, but it also kind of runs counter to basic Google positions around, you know, data, control of dat…”
Benet: IPFS would have died in academia's publish-or-perish model
“Really I think, like, the only option was either, ah, university or Google, and in the university case, it would have been killed in, in the, you know, publish or perish world where, like, hey, this is way too ambitious. Focus on this, like, one little thing, …”
Benet: The internet must transition from location addressing to content addressing
“People want to address things by what they are, not where they are. Like, it's really time, it's kind of like, it's time for the internet to move from location addressing to content addressing”