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I actually had it in the extension that it would attempt the first endpoint, and then keep trying the others until one worked.

The nice thing is the address stays the same, so even if one endpoint goes down, the address can just be used with other endpoints or directly via the network. No more dead links on the internet :maracas:

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Don’t tempt them, they might demand that cpu’s filter content at the source :sweat_smile:

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You could actually do the same with DNS round robin too
 just provide a whole, big, list of servers to resolve to. The URLs will be identical after the host name part, ofc.

You can even have 127.0.0.1 as a target address, I believe, although it would require a local AntTP to run with port 80 to work as expected: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/72849183/why-do-some-domains-resolve-to-localhost

Ultimately, just accessing localhost is probably easiest though. Maybe even a browser plugin that allows easy entry of a URL would be handy, i.e. just the bit after the host part, such as ant://address/ and then it opens up as localhost or antsnest or whatever. @safemedia maybe your plugin did that already?

Anyway, loads of options on that front. We just need to figure out what people want most. It would be great to have a standard format for links too, mind.

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Adam & Eve aboutta get a lot of C&D’s :sweat_smile: at this rate

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Yup it did that :slight_smile:

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I’m trying to keep up. You bought an Audi for the price of a used kick scooters after an accident (not electrical), and you’re driving to authorised dealers for free coffee and croissants? Great business, better than crypto! :rofl:

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THere was a outstanding recal from god knows how many years ago on the passenger airbag. So I called the dealer, confirmed they were happy to do it on a 19yr old motor.
Booked in and treated like royalty :slight_smile:
Most novel experience for this unrepentant republican bastard :slight_smile:

Seriously impressed with the customer service by Audi Glasgow. Did the warranty work, gave it full diagnostics (no surprises) washed the car, gave it a light valeting ( I havent had it long enough to get it truly manky) and a skoosh of air freshener too. Dunno what else they did but a couple of wrning lights are not there any more. Still no buying anything off them though. Depreciation is for eejits :rofl:

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In fact, your question was quite valid, because over time, regulators may try to adjust the law so that the creator of an application is responsible for the content that is posted or even just displayed in it. It is already apparent today that the law can be absurd just to meet the expectations of legislators, so in practice, the structure of the application layer will be important, and it is worth taking future possible regulations into account when designing today.

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Are you directly calling for us all to go to jail because we might have broken some future law somewhere on the planet? Is Minority Report your favorite movie?


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I just think they’ll get frustrated going after app creators, trying to get them to take down data like they are able to do with Google etc, but then even if the regulators literally waterboard us they will soon realize the data physically isn’t there and there’s absolutely nothing they can accomplish going after app devs. We don’t have the self encryption keys to anything

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looking for 2 features:

copy video link/embed code
amount of views

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For now, the law does not apply retroactively, so anything designed today in accordance with current law will remain free from liability in the future. Unless, of course, you foresee the development of quantum mechanics and the regulator turning back time. :laughing:

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We should probably move this convo off this thread.

My concern that lead to all of this and was admittedly invalid in this case, is liability for sharing links to data.

I am a little rusty but is that not basically what pirate bay founders were convicted for? They did not host the data, they hosted links.

So the fact that the data is distributed and encrypted and magically not mine means nothing if someone shares the link on a site that I created
 I am liable, no?

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You’re a king of business! You bought an Audi for less than the price of coffee and croissants, And you went to their free tasting event at the dealership, where they replaced your airbag and washed your car, by the way :laughing: :sweat_smile: :rofl: :joy:

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Not only that, I have the happy knack of convincing people to sell me cars for an awful lot less than the first, second, third or fourth number they thought of.

Counting out £800 in used 20s at someone who thinks they are gettin ~£1200 for their motor can be very effective. Especially when you put it back in your pocket and walk away


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First one should be solved in the next release - just working a little bug out.

Second cannot really be done. The only way it could be done is via the endpoint server, where they keep track of how many viewers of each video. Which would be different for every endpoint. So yeah that’s not planned.

Maybe there would be some way to make a tx for each video view, and then when a video is loaded just calculate up all those txs. So while it might be possible, it’s just not very practical. Upvoting however is in the future feature list.

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Yeah I will add that to the future list. Having a link to how to view this content directly from the network. Additionally, if a popular endpoint goes down, people will complain and this will give the community the opportunity to go everywhere online and reply to those dead links explaining how to use either other endpoints or directly access the content from the network. Free advertising.

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Ok. Let’s stop this because we’re cluttering up the thread, @safemedia, we apologise :folded_hands:

I think that it is not about encrypted and distributed data, nor about the fact that the data does not belong to the creator of the application or website, but about the fact that the user account is created at the network level and is separated from the application layer, which obviously means that the developer has no control over the user. I think Dymitar pointed this out earlier, e.g. you cannot punish a car manufacturer for someone using a car to rob a bank.

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It’s fine honestly, I enjoy it :rocket:

I’ll be posting updates here etc, but feel free to discuss related topics

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