On the official website of the European Commission, the draft document was published some days ago, called Counterfeit and Piracy Watch List. In this document, the following fragments are placed:
(iv) Interplanetary File System
The Interplanetary File System (IPFS) is a distributed file storage system that enables the decentralised storage and sharing of content in a peer-to-peer manner, similar to BitTorrent. In this system, users act as nodes of the network, hosting and serving files and websites, each holding a portion of the overall data. IPFS provides a decentralised infrastructure that supports the development of various applications, including those based on blockchain technology. Unlike the World Wide Web, which relies on location-based addressing using URLs, IPFS employs content-based addressing using content identifiers (CIDs), which are hashes 25 of the content itself.
Internet users access content stored on IPFS in two main ways: either by installing an IPFS client software to become a node in the network or by utilising public or private IPFS gateways. Public gateways are openly accessible to everyone. IPFS gateways serve as a bridge between the IPFS network and applications that do not natively support the IPFS protocol and rely on standard web protocols like HTTP, such as web browsers. By allowing the use of standard web protocols, gateways facilitate easier access to IPFS-stored content for a broader audience.
The decentralised and global nature of IPFS makes tracking of the origin of infringing content difficult and limits takedown efforts. However, gateway operators can voluntarily implement content filtering measures, such as using lists of CIDs to block. Some stakeholders in the publishing industry have reported that services like Library Genesis (LibGen), Z-Library, and Anna’s Archive utilise IPFS to illegally distribute copyright protected content, including through public gateways.
(in Introduction)
3.2.4 Peer-to-peer and BitTorrent indexing websites
Peer-to-peer and BitTorrent indexing websites use the peer-to-peer file distribution technology to allow users to share content. The websites act as aggregators of peer-to-peer links, which users can search for and access via the website. When a user clicks on a link, the peer-to-peer technology allows the user to download media files stored on other users’ computers across the peer-to-peer network. A user in a peer-to-peer network downloads files from other users’ private storage place and makes their own files available for upload to the peer-to-peer network. Users offering a file are known as ‘seeders’ and they share these files with other users known as ‘peers’.
InterPlanetary File System (IPFS)
IPFS was reported by book publishers for inclusion in the Watch List. It is a decentralized peer-to-peer (P2P) network for distributing, storing and sharing content. Super Pirate and the major pirate networks, including Library Genesis (LibGen), Z-Library, Anna’s Archive are reported to use public gateways to host and distribute copyrighted materials on IPFS.
This document could only be considered as an implicit declaration of IPFS as a piracy tool. The legal prevention practices existing in most countries leave no doubts about the exact working mode the authorities would select: the preventive bans or explicit declaration of the whole technology with the ecosystem suspicious.
From the point of view of the health of FAIR ecosystem and internet community, this action, in my opinion, should be considered as a preemptive act over the freedom of speech and freedom of information interchange, cause a technology is an instrument, but not a social phenomenon.
So, should we prepare ourselves for a legal ban, at least in some countries? This question is now seeming open.
Copy of the document in IPFS 
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