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title: How is LBRY different from IPFS / BitTorrent? title: How is LBRY different from IPFS or BitTorrent?
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IPFS and BitTorrent are wonderful technologies from which LBRY has drawn a lot of inspiration. However, they both suffer from the same flaws: IPFS and BitTorrent are wonderful technologies from which LBRY has drawn a lot of inspiration.
- Lack of discovery. BitTorrent and IPFS provide decentralized ways to access a unique piece of data or information, but they do not provide an overall catalog that lists all of the available data or information to consume. However, they both suffer from the same problems:
- Ugly URLs. BitTorrent only provides access via long, complex magnet URLs. IPFS supports human-friendly naming via IPNS, but this is an after-the-fact hack and does not provide a single, authoritative, user-friendly namespace with the way the LBRY does.
- Lack of monetization. Neither BitTorrent nor IPFS support payments to publishers for the content or data they create and publish to the network*; LBRY does. - **Lack of discovery**. BitTorrent and IPFS provide decentralized ways to access a unique piece of data or information, but they do not provide a way to discover or find what is available.
- Incentive problems. BitTorrent and IPFS rely on people being generous with their own resources for data to continue to be available. LBRY creates market incentives for data to be as widespread and available as possible. - **Lack of monetization**. Neither BitTorrent nor IPFS innately support payments to publishers for the content or data they create and publish to the network, while LBRY does.
- **No identity**. On LBRY, publishes can be authoritatively and provably issued by a cryptographically secured identity.
- **Ugly URLs**. BitTorrent only provides access via long, complex magnet URLs. IPFS supports human-friendly naming via IPNS, but as a sort of after-the-fact hack. LBRY URLs tell you what is on the other side of them _before_ you click them.
- **Incentive problems**. BitTorrent and IPFS rely on people being generous with their own resources for data to continue to be available. LBRY creates market incentives for data to be as widespread and available as possible.
**Yes, there are attempts to add this via a layer on top, but LBRY bakes it in.*

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title: How is LBRY different from MaidSafe / Storj? title: How is LBRY different from decentralized cloud storage, like Sia or Storj?
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MaidSafe and Storj are attempting to be decentralized platforms that enable many uses, rather than a decentralized protocol designed to serve a singular purpose. Sia and Storj are both doing interesting things with decentralizing cloud storage, but in a way that is pretty different from LBRY.
LBRY is designed to do one thing and only one thing well: the discovery, access, and (optionally) purchase of digital content. Decentralized cloud storage companies are meant to be replacements or analogs to Dropbox, CDNs, or other privately controlled tools. These aren't systems where all of the content put into them is intended for public consumption. Instead, they are systems where the publisher pays a price for a promise that his content will be made available subject to certain conditions.
By being designed from the ground up for a highly specific purpose, LBRY can both deliver better performance and move faster than attempts to create a similar system on top of other decentralized platforms. All three ventures are in an early stage, so it is an open question which will achieve mainstream adoption. LBRY is designed to do one thing and only one thing well: the discovery, access, and (optionally) purchase of digital content. LBRY isn't a place to backup your private personal photos, it's a place to publish something if and only if you want it to be discoverable and accessable by others.
By being designed from the ground up for a highly specific purpose, LBRY can both deliver better experience and move faster than attempts to create a similar system on top of other decentralized platforms.