RE: EXISTENCE of Steem and Steemit UNDER THREAT - Hollywood Blockbusters Published by Steemians on Steem and Steemit
I was literally writing a thread about this last night that I was going to publish today. There seem to be no end of people publishing licensed content on Dtube and even the big whales seem to be supporting this. I noticed an account on the trending pages that wants to upload a bunch of licensed cartoons and has already uploaded an episode of Rick and Morty. Meanwhile The Matrix and The Dark Knight Rises have already earned someone money.
As much as we are against plagiarized content on Steemit it seems like we are just allowing it on Dtube without even a second thought.
It's harmful for the platform and you're right.... we need to be giving it a second thought and a third thought so that people stop doing it. With the price of Steem not high right now we need to do everything in our power to fix it and fix our platform.
Absolutely we need to think twice before we take rights away from the original content owners and even start earning money while doing so. Luckily some of our Steemians got alerted through this post or in some other way and started flagging the uploads by chainflix. Most of them are now with zero rewards. At least something, and a strong signal to those who want to continue uploading copyright materials to DTube and other video platform closely linked with the Steem blockchain and Steemit service.