nikooo777

it should be noted that this project wasn't born yesterday for the purpose of countering the new policies of youtube. This project has been around for much longer.

the project is open source, even if they were to accept the money and stop development, I could still come up as a complete stranger and continue it.

So i guess you don't torrent either, you never used msn messenger, you don't use skype, you don't have outlook or any other email client and so on?

A program you download is nothing else than something that understands a new language (protocol) and allows you to communicate with the network.

Chrome for example understands HTTP and lets you see content offered over such protocol.

LBRY understands lbry protocol and lets you communicate with it

you can't simply block TCP packets. the ISP has absolutely no way of blocking LBRY protocol without blocking the internet connection itself.

Pretty much why torrenting is still not blocked (thanks god) and why TOR (developed by FBI IIRC) is still widely used as a "dark web" entry point.

People are completely misunderstanding and debating over this.

Think about it this way: suppose you're the first to upload a video to youtube called "epic music", even if the video is completely crap, it will still show up as first result and people will click it. Now, person 2 comes and sees that "epic music" has some value and decides to do something better out of it and uploads a better video named "epic music".

As the second video is better, people will shift attention to it and it will become the first result of the search.

Person 1 can only get it back if they offer a better content than Person 2 has "bid" with.

This is not a DNS-like copycat, i'm pretty sure you don't want people going on a spree buying 1000 names and holding them forever until someone pays a bounty to get the name back.