davad

I’m not surprised. I have no idea what their specific situation was, but I’ve known a couple people going through the green card process. And each was its own brand of long, painful, and expensive.

Yes

Shocked Pikachu face.

Shocked Pikachu face.

I don’t know how dead it is, but it’s pretty straightforward to set up your own gateway (public or private). Even if you don’t have a tech background, there’s the “IPFS Desktop” app that stands up the IPFS service locally.

That’s not exactly how it works. There are “territorial waters” which are entirely under the control of the state. And there is the “exclusive economic zone” (EEZ) outside of that, where the state has rights to resources. But the surface is “international waters”. This incident happened in the EEZ.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exclusive_economic_zone