Storj network is designed to circumvent these force major cases. So they say.
Even if they manage to combat the vps abuse, I think this dosen’t solve the centralisation problem. The race condition buit in the Storj network, by storing pieces on the fastest responding nodes, is the main cause. Maybe I’m wrong, don’t realy know how the nodes are choosen by sats.
This is exactly how it works with subnets now. They simply select a set of subnets and then pick a random node within the subnet for each piece. This results in nodes within a subnet sharing ingress like we see now. Thus a major impact. Unless you have a fast way for satellites to somehow ensure enough nodes and deduplicate on email address that doesn’t result in sharing ingress evenly within those clusters, doing this for email would result in the same thing.
Ok. Something a little less dramatic, like Russia blocking EU internet sites. A 5 minute job to block all the Storj Satellites being accessed in Russia. That would take a few thousand nodes off line. Likely get a few back with a VPN but would loose a lot and then there is the lower response via the VPN.
Storj has already taken precautions against Russia blocking internet services to the rest of the world.