lbry.tech/overview.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

(Introduction to the three tiers of LBRY)

Blockchain

Data Network

Applications

What's Next?

• Try LBRY
• Contribute to things
• Build things