I have started downvoting. This is not how Steem works. We have a plagiarism bot, Cheetah, designed to prevent people from stealing work. This uploading of hollywood videos is a sure way to get Steem destroyed. Hollywood has huge guns to bring lawsuits
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for sure.. we have to watch this as you are doing. The main difference here is that there is a genuine effort to stop this happening on Steemit... Where as torrent sites were really meant for sharing copyrighted materials.
IF we look on the positive / bright side.. rather than spending money on law suits. the big movie companies can just buy some Steem Power and flag everything themselves!. Much easier job that way ;-)
ha ha!!!!! There are other sites, like Tor sites where people like @chainflix can make a home. We are about original content, not profiting from other people's work. People think "oh, cool, decentralized....so no rules..." That is not the way it is, we follow copyright rules. Duh
Hmmm, one issue I've just noticed is that despite the oblivion flagging the videos are still up and definitely viewable on dtube. That's a big issue, we can flag all we want but if the content is still up and viewable the big companies won't like it, even if it is "hidden due to low ratings"
maybe there will have to be a change one day where flagging to Zero causes the video to not show at all. will obviously be potential problem for censorship / abuse.. but there may be little choice if people are irresponsible..
also lets not forget that if all rewards are taken back from the video that may also be enough to curb the issue
Agree; however, abuse on both sides will always be a risk. Copyright owners may very well start flagging campaigns against people posting videos that have concepts similar to existing or upcoming movie themes, etc, etc.
Killing an account does not stop serial offenders as we see this in other aspects of our society; however, we may deter their participation in the platform.
The blockchain is meant to be immutable (a concept I with which I agree) - in the same manner society knows that a wrongdoing by an individual cannot be undone.
This is very much a values issue - what does the Steemit and DTube community see as right and wrong. Every day members of the community get to vote democratically on all manner of posts, equally we have the opportunity to encourage a change in attitude/s for the better. This system provides a better option than many have with their own governments, be they democratic, socialist, communist or any other persuasion.
Flag them to zero and stop the post or video from being seen/accessed.
For some reason, I flagged meep and it gave you a flag. Musta been lag. Please disregard if you see it in the blockchain, meant to upvote.
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I totally agree man. But then, we have to watch our backs. There will always be the risk with sites such as this that people jump onto the space and start sharing product they don't own for votes.
I get your point though. Something worth thinking about.
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That's actually a brilliant idea. If this ever does become an issue that the big movie companies take notice of, I'm sure the community could convince them to spend even just a fraction of what they would on lawer fees to simply start a Steemit account and flag the offender into oblivion. The only downside to this is that it would also give said company a lot of power on a decentralized platform, but it's better than Steemit getting destroyed I guess.
glad u agree! i also thought,. nice idea! better to work with the bit shots then against them.. whenever possible!
Much more fun for us all to just let them have a flagging war.. great for the reward pool too.. its win-win situation!
Great idea, you should make a post on it!
dude this is just giving powers a back entrance into the whole game,.
( Nina Paley)
Hmm, maybe we should let that happen rather sooner than later? If you are convinced :)
I've seen people finding ways around Cheetah. Cheetah is text-based, so it only finds text-based plagiarism. If you hide your piracy in video or images, you avoid Cheetah.
Perhaps we could at least de-monetize (reward-decline) copyright material via some sort of automated flagging? That would be a start.
It'll take a lot of voting power to flag out "The Matrix" in this neighborhood.
I threw in the voting power I could spare.
I managed to hide "Happy Gilmore". That's a service to everybody, I think.
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