RE: @zer0hedge forensics show you @transisto scam
It wasn't until about 4 months ago that @zer0hedge even put a disclaimer up admitting it wasn't actually "Tyler Durden".
It looks like he was first called out on it here.
He attempted to 'do the right thing', I guess, by refusing rewards for a couple of posts here and here and here by leading with:
Reward temporarily declined while I draft a more accurate and complete disclaimer.
Funny enough, he said he was shutting down rewards in this post but a 'button misclick' still earned him payouts, I guess.
He even re-steemed a supporter who supports his copy/pasta here though the supporter notes that it's just because he's too lazy to go over to zerohedge.com website and likes to see the content here. There's no discussion of the reward pool that @zer0hedge is scraping.
Maybe it's time for me to go start a new account "@playboy" and start pulling all of their content over to steemit. I mean, as long as I give them a source link and give them credit, right?
The account @zer0hedge always cited source and had a profile description attempting to differentiate itself from the real ZeroHedge.com before posting anything.
If you think this kind of content is good for Steem go for it! Not guaranteeing I'll upvote it though and unless it's @playb0y I might even flag it.
This kind of stuff would be the end of steemit. No matter how decentralised a DMCA takedown request could still pull the whole domain, and might make Ned personally responsible.
Is it good enough for you that he has a disclaimer or not? Not so liberty are you.
Having him post actually increases interactions and reading on this platform. Zerohedge have hardly been harmed by it. (even if they may disagree) I've checked Zerohedge more often since I started seeing the @zer0hedge posts from time to time.
‘Liberty’? Not sure what you think liberty is.
Here’s logic for you to follow.
Having him post stolen content DOES increase interaction on Steemit. You are correct.
But it also exposes the entire Steemit Domain to be taken down. All it would take is ZeroHedge.com to realize their content has banked some internet loser almost $140,000 in the last year alone.
This is how much THEY could have made by doing the same. And they are the content owners.
Think they’d mind? Quite the risk to the rest of us just because YOU don’t care.
It’s simple enough for them to file a DMCA Takedown notice.
The second party injured here is the rest of the rewards pool. He’s soaked $140,000 out of the rest of us. If you read the white paper, that’s $140,000 that would have been awarded out to everyone else.
That's the thing though... Steem still can't be taken down. We shouldn't be dependant on Steemit.
(Let's not get bogged down in a semantic debate between libertarians I suppose)
agreed, no bog down.
The content is well-distributed, the domain "Steemit.com" could be taken down though. If the domain comes down, the content would have to continually be mirrored around to other domains. Then those would get taken down.
It would definitely lower the platform's legitimacy.
Not sure if you remember but piratebay.org used to do a lot.
I think that's the route we eventually have to go anyways... And yes, the internet has to be rebuilt as well...
I might just have a higher appetite for risk I suppose.