lbry.tech/overview/index.md

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Overview

Introduction to LBRY protocol

Mission

What if anyone in the world could publish a piece of digital content, anyone else in the world could access it, for free or for payment, and that entire system worked end-to-end without any centralized authority or point of control?

That's the idea behind LBRY. To create a market for accessing and publishing information¹ that is global², decentralized³, robust⁴, optimal⁵ and complete⁶.

That's a fancy sentence, so here's a plainer one: we just thought it'd be really damn cool if there was a system that stored as much of the world's information as possible, but was owned and controlled by no one.

¹In the information theoric sense, i.e. any data. LBRY facilitates distribution of all data, whether it be a video or a spreadsheet.

²Accessible anywhere in the world on any internet-connected device.

³Not controlled by any one person, party or authority.

⁴Resistant to censorship or attempts to control; impervious to attacks or disruptions.

⁵In the Pareto sense, with regards to the production and distribution of information (i.e. digital information is both created and distributed in a way that could not be any more efficient from the perspectives of information producers and consumers).

⁶The most complete collection of world’s books, films, art, games, etc. should be available via LBRY.

LBRY Basics

What's Next?

• Try LBRY
• Contribute to things
• Build things