Following up from the last post about BitTorrent which mentioned IPFS (Interplanetary File System). There I framed BitTorrent as a distributed or decentralized filesystem or storage layer of the internet, and not just a pirate's den. That would make it a lot like IPFS.

Remember BitTorrent? Yeah, the pirate protocol. Actually, it's not specifically designed for breaking laws, but rather to be an efficient way to distribute files to many people - making files available to others in a way that takes advantage of each person downloading to speed up the downloads of other people thus reducing the required bandwidth and resources of the uploader (usually resource-constricted relative to the many downloaders) while then removing the uploader or any other single point of failure - it's decentralized! So, unlike normal file download sites, the original uploader can go offline and a file can still be accessible, all without relying on a server. Compare: If a non-torrent file download website goes down, that file can no longer be downloaded. BitTorrent solves this.