Okay, my vagueness at fault: Datacoin (in common with torrenthash) has only
structural metadata, there is no
descriptive metadata and
that's what's blocking the development of a "nice little app" (
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metadata)
I have understood now. But I think it is very good that data storage metadata are not included in blockchain rules. It allows freedom to users.
It is not weakness of dtc. It is a power of dtc. It can be used by many different ways without metadata overhead because of such fundamentally raw storage.
DTC offer only very raw storage. It allows to use dtc for very general various purposes.
It is good that ordinary hdd don't restrict users with one filesytem. But users can make and have any selected filesystem above raw hdd structure.
Dtc can be used the same way. Someone want metadata. So he create your own standard for data and use it. If this standard is useful then other users use it also.
But if someone wants another standard then he makes it.
If someone wants encrypted non understandable (by other) data then he makes so.
Finally. I agree that data structure rules can be very useful, but I think it must not be included in blockchain rules. It must be user side rules. But of course many users can be in agreed and share the same rules for same purposes (f.e. for file saving).
But if someone wants and can to use dtc for some very mad purpose he can make it over dtc blockchain. And he will not have unnecessary metadata overhead.