I know all about this since I am a content creator in photography on other platforms. Media are stolen all the time.
What you as the creator need to do is file a dmca takedown notice any and every time you see the trouble if you do.
The take down notice is done by incident, not by platform. It is very quick and simple and works fast. DMCA just checks upload dates on the internet - first guy wins. They go to the HOST not the thief and get it taken down. Done in hours or days at most.
Search DMCA takedown and it's well covered.
You cannot complain if you are not the creator as you will not have the first date.
If you are the creator you can be checking daily or not worrying about it. I'm in the don't care group for the most part but you never know. If I saw something I would link to it and call it out and consider myself a success since someone stole from me.
You said nothing wrong here , and what is wrong will always be wrong , it's just a matter of time that people become aware of these situations and react upon them . It should not be tolerated on this platform
I do agree STINC shall play a greater role in fighting abuse, with tools. I wrote a comment to their most recent post to the community her.
Wondering how they removed/deleted the images, the images are not stored on the blockchain, but by some image hosting party. Were just the links destroyed, or did STIN als work with the image hoster to remove the image itself?
The videos (and maybe images in the future) are on an IPFS based storage (steemitimages is that IPFS, or simple traditional way of storage?). When on IPFS based storage system, is it possible to delete content? When not, how will unwanted content then deleted?
Also, when content needs to be removed, and the content itself or links cannot be destroyed (links can be removed, but they can easily be re-established) by authorities, is hiding feature sufficient? Keep in mind, the hiding feature is part of the frontend, busy.org does not hide as far as I know. Shall such hiding feature not become part of the backend, the blockchain and its APIs?
As you read from my questions, I certainly think STINC as the designer and developer of the Steem blockchain and
The links in the posts weren't destroyed, they remain on the blockchain, but the images themselves were deleted from steemit's image host, so the links are dead and won't show up any pictures. The images host isn't IPFS, it's an Amazon AWS.
I haven't looked into how IPFS works exactly, you can check their website for details about their protocol.
OSPs must adhere to and qualify for certain prescribed safe harbor guidelines and promptly block access to alleged infringing material (or remove such material from their systems) when they receive notification of an infringement claim from a copyright holder or the copyright holder's agent.
If I understand correctly the legislation quoted, I think DTube (just like YouTube) aren't required to do any ''taking down'' action before any copyright holder('s agent)'s claim comes in. All they need to do is to have the system in place in order to respond to such claim when and if it comes in.
Yes, DMCA takedowns happen after receiving complaints. However, when the original authors see that people are making money publicly via Steemit, I think this would complicate things and cause some lawsuits. MPAA are very notorious. I'm no legal expert, but I wonder how all this would affect the users who upvoted those posts.
Furthermore, there are some new accounts posting movies as well. So just like spammers and scammers are flourishing, this type of content might become even more popular, and turn the Steemit platform into a BIG gateway for piracy.
I think that in order to be a target by the MPAA, you probably need to do something big enough to get noticed. At the moment on Steemit, and with the anti-plagiarism culture that is the very essence of the platform, I believe it's gotta be hard to operate a significantly lucrative movie sharing scheme.
If people are ready to go to war against irrelevant spammers and to unite in strength in downvoting scammers, I guess the same decentralized solidarity against those who infringed copyrights will kick in response to those new accounts. Thus with the payouts to the posters & voters reduce to zero, it will discourage those who were thinking about making money one way, the other, or both.
But there are always those who don't believe in intellectual property rights who might argue there is nothing wrong with the situation in the first place.
wow , im curious how you got Neds attention?
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@drakos infected @ned with the Yunk virus.
It's slowly spreading across the platform. Soon Steemit will be VIRAL.
Your concern for the Steemit comunity has to be apreciated, @drakos. We need more people like you. Good job, upvoted. - #Padre
Glad the community responded to these offenders quickly and according to the laws of the land as well as the laws of our conscience.
I know all about this since I am a content creator in photography on other platforms. Media are stolen all the time.
What you as the creator need to do is file a dmca takedown notice any and every time you see the trouble if you do.
The take down notice is done by incident, not by platform. It is very quick and simple and works fast. DMCA just checks upload dates on the internet - first guy wins. They go to the HOST not the thief and get it taken down. Done in hours or days at most.
Search DMCA takedown and it's well covered.
You cannot complain if you are not the creator as you will not have the first date.
If you are the creator you can be checking daily or not worrying about it. I'm in the don't care group for the most part but you never know. If I saw something I would link to it and call it out and consider myself a success since someone stole from me.
Great post, I was concerned about similar copyright issues.
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You said nothing wrong here , and what is wrong will always be wrong , it's just a matter of time that people become aware of these situations and react upon them . It should not be tolerated on this platform
I do agree STINC shall play a greater role in fighting abuse, with tools. I wrote a comment to their most recent post to the community her.
Wondering how they removed/deleted the images, the images are not stored on the blockchain, but by some image hosting party. Were just the links destroyed, or did STIN als work with the image hoster to remove the image itself?
The videos (and maybe images in the future) are on an IPFS based storage (steemitimages is that IPFS, or simple traditional way of storage?). When on IPFS based storage system, is it possible to delete content? When not, how will unwanted content then deleted?
Also, when content needs to be removed, and the content itself or links cannot be destroyed (links can be removed, but they can easily be re-established) by authorities, is hiding feature sufficient? Keep in mind, the hiding feature is part of the frontend, busy.org does not hide as far as I know. Shall such hiding feature not become part of the backend, the blockchain and its APIs?
As you read from my questions, I certainly think STINC as the designer and developer of the Steem blockchain and
The links in the posts weren't destroyed, they remain on the blockchain, but the images themselves were deleted from steemit's image host, so the links are dead and won't show up any pictures. The images host isn't IPFS, it's an Amazon AWS.
I haven't looked into how IPFS works exactly, you can check their website for details about their protocol.
If I understand correctly the legislation quoted, I think DTube (just like YouTube) aren't required to do any ''taking down'' action before any copyright holder('s agent)'s claim comes in. All they need to do is to have the system in place in order to respond to such claim when and if it comes in.
Yes, DMCA takedowns happen after receiving complaints. However, when the original authors see that people are making money publicly via Steemit, I think this would complicate things and cause some lawsuits. MPAA are very notorious. I'm no legal expert, but I wonder how all this would affect the users who upvoted those posts.
Furthermore, there are some new accounts posting movies as well. So just like spammers and scammers are flourishing, this type of content might become even more popular, and turn the Steemit platform into a BIG gateway for piracy.
I think that in order to be a target by the MPAA, you probably need to do something big enough to get noticed. At the moment on Steemit, and with the anti-plagiarism culture that is the very essence of the platform, I believe it's gotta be hard to operate a significantly lucrative movie sharing scheme.
If people are ready to go to war against irrelevant spammers and to unite in strength in downvoting scammers, I guess the same decentralized solidarity against those who infringed copyrights will kick in response to those new accounts. Thus with the payouts to the posters & voters reduce to zero, it will discourage those who were thinking about making money one way, the other, or both.
But there are always those who don't believe in intellectual property rights who might argue there is nothing wrong with the situation in the first place.
Good to have great leader, but does not mean all members should shrink from their duty, which we have not,flagging will work if we all do our part