nikooo777

it should be noted that this project wasn't born yesterday for the purpose of countering the new policies of youtube. This project has been around for much longer.

the project is open source, even if they were to accept the money and stop development, I could still come up as a complete stranger and continue it.

So i guess you don't torrent either, you never used msn messenger, you don't use skype, you don't have outlook or any other email client and so on?

A program you download is nothing else than something that understands a new language (protocol) and allows you to communicate with the network.

Chrome for example understands HTTP and lets you see content offered over such protocol.

LBRY understands lbry protocol and lets you communicate with it

you can't simply block TCP packets. the ISP has absolutely no way of blocking LBRY protocol without blocking the internet connection itself.

Pretty much why torrenting is still not blocked (thanks god) and why TOR (developed by FBI IIRC) is still widely used as a "dark web" entry point.

it's not really self hosting: once you publish your content, it will be uploaded to the network and spread in blobs.

Your content will be available as long as there is interest for your content and someone in the network has the blobs required.