You can have a look at our FAQ (http://storj.io/faq), there is a section on Illegal Material on Storj where we propose shard graylisting. Anyone could make a graylist indicating the unique hash of a shard that is associated with certain decrypted content. Then, the farmer could decide to opt-in to such a graylist if they don't wish to be party to distribution of such content (e.g. child exploitation, violent terror videos, etc.). On another note you wont have any entire file ever stored on your HD but simply pieces (shards) of them. So if you were to try and read them they will make no sense as they are only pieces of the puzzle (the entire file).

We are running our early beta test and you can check the network status at https://live.driveshare.org./ We have had a crowdsale where our supporters have contributed to have early access to our beta software. We are not asking anyone to go and buy Storjcoin X (SJCX) to get into our beta and we will never do. The way we want our beta to go is to scale up slowly like any other company does, 10 users, then 50, then 100, then 1000 and so on. We have enough crowdsale supporters to help us out during our beta, we are not pushing anyone here. Everyone will be able to get our apps for free once the beta is over, so I'm not sure what your point is. For your second point we are concentrating on decentralizing cloud storage, again we are in our early beta. Other projects in the space are trying to solve other issues (contracts, system of records, etc), we are building Storj as modularly as possible to make it easy to integrate with other projects and technologies. You make it sound like if it's a problem to want to integrate with other players in the space. We don't believe in competition at Storj we believe in cooperation and integration. One project on its own will never be able to decentralize everything, but different projects put to work together could make a lot of difference.

It won't work the way you described it, if you are using DriveShare you are only sharing your free HD space and make it available to the network. There are no private keys or passwords involved. What will be stored on your HD is only small encrypted chunks (shards) of files, not the entire files themselves. So even if your HD gets accessed by someone else, these shards have no use and are unreadable unless they are retrieved by the original uploader who has the private key to decrypt and thus reconstruct the file from all the different pieces. These pieces are hosted and many different nodes all over the world. The responsibility here is on the uploader of the files, not on who helps the network with their own free storage.

You can have a look at our FAQ (http://storj.io/faq), there is a section on how DriveShare and MetaDisk work. About bandwidth and retrieving your files, consider that files are "sharded" which means they get shredded in lots of different small pieces and distributed over the network with a default redundancy of 3x. The network has algorithms that run a periodic check (heartbeat) to find out if all shards for a specific file are stored where they are supposed to be. If one or more of the shards are not available when a heartbeat runs the network will find another copy of it (out of the 3x), replicate it and store it on a different node (host) that is live. Users will be able to choose the amount of redundancy they feel comfortable with, from 3x to 50 x or 200x... As we proceed further with our beta we will also look at it ourselves and see what works best. We may find that a default 3x redundancy is not good enough, so we will increase it accordingly to make sure files are retrievable.

"I think the worst is that it now incentivizes people to install a trojan on your system and rent out your storage space without you knowing" about your mention above, our software is not a trojan and it doesn't install as if by magic. People will have to want to run our software. If you want to find out more about Storj go to http://storj.io/ or head over to our forum at https://storjtalk.org/ where you can join the discussion and get all your questions answered.

Not sure what projects you are referring to and not interested either when you say: "they all say that". As far as Storj goes the quote you mentioned is what we are actually hard at work to deliver. Watch this space you will be surprised when we go live. ;)

You can have a look at our FAQ (http://storj.io/faq), there is a section on Illegal Material on Storj where we propose shard graylisting. Anyone could make a graylist indicating the unique hash of a shard that is associated with certain decrypted content. Then, the farmer could decide to opt-in to such a graylist if they don't wish to be party to distribution of such content (e.g. child exploitation, violent terror videos, etc.).