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Re: OpenBazaar - decentralized eBay
by
MUFC
on 09/07/2015, 18:58:26 UTC

So the whole point is for open bazarr to facilitate the sale of weapons and child porn and anything else someone might want to sell? I'm sure "let the authorities deal with it" will stand up in court. What makes them different from Ross Ulbrict other than they're not directly profiting off it (though arguable seeing as they got a million in funding recently and will likely get more)? Regardless that wont matter to prosecuters as they wont care.

It's the equivalent of Bittorrent. Quite a few people have been nailed for facilitating torrenting, mainly the operators of listing sites. The inventor of Bittorrent has done nothing wrong and is living a free life.

Yes but sites like Piratebay don't host cp and would remove that sort of stuff. Most people really aren't going to be wanting to use this to sell their goods when their listings are ranked alongside weapons and extreme porn. I think this sort of software should be used by each individual market not a free for all ie have a one on the clearnet for ebay type stuff, then one on the deepnet for drugs and then there will be others that have the more sinister stuff (not that I would endorse them but I think drugs should be kept off regular users wanting to sell their own legal wares etc).