@cwebber @Claire @eramdam
I think a bunch about this post about the history of mp3 piracy and "minimum viable decentralization":
https://web.archive.org/web/20180725200137/https://medium.com/@jbackus/resistant-protocols-how-decentralization-evolves-2f9538832ada
(though it wasn't directly influential on atproto design, and Backus has since pulled the post)