Why the Internet Needs IPFS
For publishers, it's probably best thought of as a combination of a free CDN and the Internet Archive.<p>But I don't think it's going to take off until there's a way to take down files you don't want published anymore. Even with the Internet Archive, if you add them to robots.txt, they will take it down. [1]<p>Removing things from the Internet is always going to be imperfect since there will always be people who archive old copies of files (and that's a good thing). But the official software should honor retractions or mainstream publishers won't be interested.<p>[1] <a href="https://archive.org/about/exclude.php" rel="nofollow">https://archive.org/about/exclude.php</a>