"If you build it strong enough, the law will follow."
That's how Daniel Nagy, the leading developer behind Swarm – ethereum's decentralized storage-layer – described his "takeaway lesson" after a seven-year legal battle over the hosting a file-sharing node.
A precursor to peer-to-peer file sharing service, Bittorrent, Nagy was running a DC node, a technology that is now "perfectly and completely obsolete," according to the developer.