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RE: So you think you own your content on steem – Sorry to tell you…..
I wonder if this can be solved by encrypting the content so it's unintelligible on "unauthorized" front-ends but maybe include some clear-text teaser content that would be available on others.
Now, that you mention it. I'm not incredibly fond of the current arrangement.🤔
I've been talking about encrypted tribes for several months. Hopefully the technical folks can figure out how to get it done.
"I wonder if this can be solved by encrypting the content so it's unintelligible on "unauthorized" front-ends but maybe include some clear-text teaser content that would be available on others."
thats just way too much for me lol
Where there is a will. There is way. 🙂
I would like to explore this further. Power to the people. ✊
That's the way to do it. That way the author could even implement a paywall for their Steem content if they wanted to.
I don't really see paywalls working, obviously depends on what the cost is. You have to use front-end X to view it? You have to upvote it? You have to tip the user for it? Either way it's enough someone does it and instantly releases it for free somewhere else on a copy front-end or whatever.
In some cases, paywalls work fine. It's pretty normal monetization method for online newspapers.
That would be illegal to do without the permission of the author. My main point was, however, that the canonical link issue could be mitigated this way (by only showing a snippet of the original unencrypted).
:D
Imagine decentralized webhosting services, decentralized image storage, decentralized everything. Oh it's illegal? Too bad you can't do shit about it, lol.
But yeah, if there is something to be gained from copying everything someone will do it. Same thing with the Steem blockchain, if witnesses would ever decide they needed to delete something from the chain and continue to do so, it would only take one person to copy the chain live so he'd have the content somewhere in case this would happen again in the future.
Sure, it can be done using those methods. But it works for a lot of publications. I don’t see a lot of material like that easily accessible anywhere.
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I just made a comment about this last night! I think encrypted content would open a lot of interesting doors.