many legal risks exists for media hosts on nostr, especially open ones.
tread with caution
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I wonder if any relay operators or client dev received an ofcom letter.
not that I know of but media hosting in general is problematic
Oh oh, did someone sue? What for?
I still don’t understand why people and clients rely mostly on nostr.build that can be shut down within seconds 🤷♂️
becauset they actually put in the effort to make their service fast and reliable, and take the required legal responsibility.
Several media hosts shut down or restricted access already due to CSAM, the other popular media host for example has barely any content moderation and are opening themselves up to issues.
Spinning up a Blossom server for self-hosting doesn’t seem realistic either. Do you have ideas for removing the centralized point of failure and scaling nostr hosting in a decentralized way?
What matters if you can *move* your content. With Blossom or a future spec allowing media URL changes (which is better than Blossom but doesn't exist yet) you could keep a local backup of all your media in a single .zip, and if it goes down reupload it as needed.
Could deciphering on client similarly like mega(dot)nz does work?
Nope, the keys would be public in posts, and that strips away any plausible deniability
Well, it would need hosting providers to scan the Nostr network and actively monitor content beyond their servers. With Mega, they do not see the content, nor can they. They have to be notified by some party to remove the content, and the notification must include the key. But that kind of defeats the same blossom ID being independent from the provider. Well, in the end, if you want to host Epstein files, IPFS would be the best choice.
I think most file storage altcoins (storj, filecoin, whatever) give plausible deniability by never storing the full file on one single node, so that storage providers never know what they are storing.
It's not just on nostr. It's every media host. The problem is the administrators allow free uploading then you get a wave of NSFW content and eventually they break the laws which gets the host shutdown. I remember nostr build having this problem then they stopped allowing free uploading for non nostr accounts and it sloved most of the problems.
.. legal is always bound to tirants .. may be one day (i hope) that such control entity will surrender because there will be no users neither providers to blame ... tor, bitcoin and nostr keys pairs will help on this ..