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title: Overview
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## Mission
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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 without any centralized authority or point of control?
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That's the idea behind LBRY.
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<MissionStatement/>
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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.
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^1^ In the information theoric sense, i.e. any data. LBRY facilitates distribution of all data, whether it be a video or a spreadsheet.
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^2^ Accessible anywhere in the world on any internet-connected device.
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^3^ Not controlled by any one person, party or authority.
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^4^ Resistant to censorship or attempts to control; impervious to attacks or disruptions.
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^5^ In 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).
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^6^ The most complete collection of world’s books, films, art, games, etc. should be available via LBRY.
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## Ecosystem Overview
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Learn more about how LBRY works from this ecosystem overview.
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<Ecosystem/>
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## Keep Diving
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- Explore live metadata and add your own blockchain entry on [the Tour](/tour).
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- Read the whitepaper, the API specification and other documentation in [Resources](/resources).
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- Learn how to [contribute to LBRY](/contribute) or [build your own application](/build).
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