Meaning the internet itself will be a high-risk venture. I’m guessing we will see numerous cases such as these mounting in the near future. Eventually at the highest level of courts and politics it will boil down to whether the internet as a whole is legal or not.

Because if you can be held liable without knowledge, neither the internet nor the post office can function without risk to anyone supporting the basic infrastructure.

I use public trackers. Through a VPN. I feel secure enough. And if I’m using DHT or a public tracker I feel the tracker’s reliable enough as well.

A private tracker otoh, actually has enough personal information to uniquely identify you stored some place. That makes it a huge liability in itself.

Used to be the big topic on old bulletin boards and toted like Diogenes of sinope’s lantern by tinfoil hat theorists of the worst kind.

And yet now here we sit, finding them in the right and we more cautious and optimistic thinkers in the dead wrong. Somewhere, some old old internet guru with a neckbeard to his knees who hasn’t come out of the basement for twenty years is laughing his head off in full vindication.

As you say, in the long run we benefit from this as it removes several proofs-of-concept from the drawing board and puts them in production.

Ten years from now, the only domain government’s will have a say in will be .org. And they’ll have to run it from a decentralized TLD just so anyone can access it.

Problem is, around here everyone is so busy trying to teach “anon” and “Nejtillpirater” fundamental language recognition (“no, white isn’t, in fact, black just because you happen to feel like it”) that actual grammar and syntactic rule becomes the least of their worries.

You mean as in loose bowels?

Now you’re telling us the infidels were poisoned like dogs and get tummy rubs? Hmm. Not Epic enough. Not enough sulphur and brimstone, i think, in that diatribe of yours to make for a good bible-thumping session in your usual style.

At the very least you need to describe the groaning hordes of pirates being paraded én másse in chains before the gallows singing “hoist the colors high” in vivid and gleeful detail – like you usually do when you think you’re commenting about the real world.