I get the file hosting and file sharding thing, and if I look at what is being done with holepunching I can see the structure for this, nodes could host files, they want to sell, it makes sense from that stand point, but thinking of the use of it, I have soem concerns.

Selling digital anything with final settlement is a tough sell, how do I know I am getting the file I want? How do I know that the download wont be corrupted and since payment is final, I am out of pocket? What is the case for disputes?

I wonder how the shitcoin versions of this are working out like SiaCoin and BTT token, if had any uptake, I have not paid any attention to those projects, if anyone here has, keen to hear their feedback.

I think this does have some use case maybe for users who want to sell their own digital content, but as for pirate content, adding a direct monetary incentive to piracy im torn on what the legal implications of that are and how much economic force from fiat gatekeepers will come down on individual users.

Look at the tornado cash dev, he just wrote code and his in jail, if im selling a copy of the latest marvel movie for 1000 sats a pop, I just need to make one mistake wth my privacy and Disney will be serving me on my doorstep

People who want to pirate will always find a way to do it for free, that's their mindset, why would they want to spend money on a use case that's a unique selling point is not paying, let alone paying for that with something that has a massive opportunity cost for spending, its like two massively opposing forces pushing on your business model

It would be fair more likey that publishers of content, and custodians like eBook merchants, streaming music, and movie sites slap on a LN payment provider instead, it might not be the bigger ones, but I am sure if they see that the payment savings the could get they will push it on their audience, especially if you can settle in a unit of account they know like a stablecoin on LN or Liquid.