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RE: A Chat With Steemit's CEO: Some Clarifications About Abuse
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.