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RE: [BOUNTY] WE NEED THIS NOW. ALL STEEMDOLLARS WILL GO TO THE BEST SOLUTION.
And\Or, Steemit could just make it easier to embed content than it is to steal it.
There is an open source project that does this with almost all content, from amazon to soundcloud to twitter to vimeo. It displays the content, credits the author, and provides a link to their domain, and it works just like steemit shares youtube videos right now.
http://embed.ly
http://oembed.com/
https://noembed.com/
These projects are open source, and just waiting in github.
https://github.com/iamcal/oembed/tree/master/providers
https://github.com/leedo/noembed
The reason I keep posting this, is because it is not a winnable war and wasting energy on policing when you could be sharing 100x more cool stuff ethically is just dumb.
I agree. Its a lot of wasted energy and efforts but something has to be done. A solution like the above would probably take a long time to integrate right now...but in the meanwhile we need something to deter people from copy/pasting
I cautiously agree that a downvote brigade would work fine temporarily.
This is a disruptive platform, it needs more disruptive services like embedding youtube videos. Embed.ly has built a enterprise level business that turns "plagiarism" into sharing, by simply making it easier to do the right thing and credit the author. Steemit needs this concept more than police and content bots.
Just keep in mind. Once a police force is created and given power, they never get disbanded. And once a bot coded to detect and censor stuff is created, it's a tiny step away from being used to censor ideas. Those 2 things are how you get reddit and facebook in their current states. Building them the first month on a decentralized platform is just plain scary.
Yep. And this is my fear. I think a bot should only post a comment linking the original source. Then be subject to flagging if the plagiarist claim is wrong.