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RE: Is Plagiarism Now Allowed on Steemit?
My questions would be:
- If the STEEM blockchain is decentralized and immutable, which we know to be true, then what happens with all the posts whereby an author does blatantly
plagiarize and/or violate copyright rules?
There is no central authority to whom anyone can insist that the associated content be taken down. I suppose that Steemit the company could certainly choose to mask/hide the display of such content in the Steemit UI, but I believe it will still be on the STEEM blockchain if someone wanted to use a blockchain explorer to go find it.
What happens when the original content owner that is the victim of such abuse is a really wealthy/powerful person that could otherwise bring a lawsuit in the case of a centralized social media platform like Facebook, do they have any recourse at all, or has it become a case of "sorry for your luck"?
As long as Steemit (the company) complies with copyright requests by taking down (hiding from viewers and search engines) illegally published content, things will continue as they are.
Which is a problem - first, because the idea behind Steemit is to concentrate unique content, thus increasing the price of Steem and second, because Steemit is trying to create censorship resistant media, only to censor its own users.
BTW, the price of Steem going up has nothing to do with the direction of the social media (i.e. going in the right direction). On the contrary, if it weren't for Bitcoin, Steem would be even lower in value.