LBRY is a free, open, and community-run digital marketplace. You own your data. You control the network. Indeed, you are the network. Hollywood films, college lessons, amazing streamers and more are on the first media network ruled by you. LBRY is many components working together to provide a decentralized, peer-to-peer content sharing platform, resistant to non-arbitrary censorship, that allows content creators to monetize their creations and connect directly with their fans and viewers. MISSION STATEMENT To create a market for accessing and publishing information (1) that is global (2), decentralized (3), robust (4), optimal (5) and complete (6) That¡¯s a fancy sentence, so here¡¯s a plainer one: we just thought it¡¯d be really damn cool if a system made is easy to discover and distribute as much of the world¡¯s information as possible, but was owned and controlled by no one. (1) In the information theoretic sense, i.e. any data. LBRY facilitates distribution of all data, whether it be a video or a spreadsheet. (2) Accessible anywhere in the world on any internet-connected device. (3) Not controlled by any one person, party or authority. (4) Resistant to censorship or attempts to control; impervious to attacks or disruptions. (5) In the Pareto sense, with regards to the production and distribution of information (i.e. digital information is both created and distributed in a way that could not be any more efficient from the perspectives of information producers and consumers). (6) The most complete collection of the world¡¯s books, films, art, games, etc. should be available via LBRY.