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   "text": "Existing decentralized filesharing networks cannot guarantee the availability of unpopular files such as personal files, whereas centralized cloud services guarantee availability for a fee.",
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   "text": "Cloud computing increased connectivity but simultaneously produced monolithic, siloed applications built for a single business, department, or role, and that fragmentation of data and content now impairs collaboration as well as the search, organization, and discovery of content.",
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   "text": "Cloud computing is the enabling substrate for decentralized solutions rather than their competitor, because it has already established that applications can talk to each other, an integration that decentralized networks will extend.",
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