DTube - The end of copyright enforcement
When I made my first couple of DTube mentions, this concept of copyright enforcement being nearly impossible with the platform never occurred to me. DTube may very well be the end of video copyright enforcement. It struck me when I saw some copyrighted material on the platform.
This also highlights the need for the end of big brother internet. If the government wants to get serious about enforcing corporate control of the internet, they can certainly monitor internet traffic for anyone viewing copyrighted material. The government could also decide to blacklist DTube nodes themselves.
It will be interesting if the platform becomes popular, because this will certainly create some waves in an industry that seemed to have its ducks in a row in terms of enforcing copyrights to a degree where most people would comply with them. The only easy way around copyrights these days is sketchy websites where you are just as likely to get an internet virus as it is the content you are looking for would be there.
I will like to see the industry squirm and contort on itself in how they will attempt to figure this one out. I have no love for unjust laws such as copyright. While as a Christian, obeying it is correct, it is also an incorrect concept Biblically that should be overturned.
For this reason alone, I expect DTube to be a massive success if they are able to handle the large traffic volumes. People will post their favorite copyrighted material, and if it is decentralized like they say, it will be difficult to thwart the system. I may have to do some research to see how truly decentralized the video hosting aspect actually is.
People hosting this content are going to get paid in Steem. I will say the Steem limitation of being paid within a 7 day period in some ways seems a little restrictive when we assess video content on the Steemit platform.
I wonder if this mechanism could be reversed in the future? If we had payout schedules weekly, we could then reset the payouts for each post to restart and just do weekly payouts based on content. For blogging, it makes sense to have a 7 day limitation as blogging content is time sensitive usually.
However, if I release a DTube tutorial video that is popular for the next 2 years, and it becomes a major driver in Google searches, it really aught to pay based on the number of likes that result from that content... not the number of likes within the first seven days. This type of mechanism hinders monetization.
Interesting thoughts.
One hindrance to dtube becoming a pirates paradise is down-votes. In-fact, any controversial content will have trouble thriving on a steem platform.
This doesn't mean that controversial content cant be hosted on IPFS or censored on dtube. It just means that SP can't be used to pay the hosting fees, and that content will require more vote power compared to neutral content to get the same rewards.
For this reason, I think down-votes should be eliminated. Controversial content is simply more valuable than neutral boring content, however it can not thrive if a single user with an agenda can obliterate the rewards it would receive.
Why are we going to flag copyrighted DTube vids? If they earned too much in rewards I could see it, but since rewards are limited to 7 days, it's pretty unlikely they'll receive much upvotes to throw things out of balance. Thanks for your thoughts.
Wow, this was an interesting comment for this post.
Yes I agree down-vote should be eliminated.
I know this post is old but I just discovered DTube and you have an interesting point. I'm looking forward to see how Dtube will handle the voting system as they gain more users.
Hope Dtube will take over youtube and steemit will take over facebook in future.
This was probably a great article. But the lack of images and video made me completely skip it and go onto a different article.
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You somehow felt good by making this kind of comment?
Long way to go. But the seeds have been down. If Steem plays it's cards properly this may not seem so outrageous in next 3 years.
Yeah, i agree with you but now a days more and more people are aware about steemit community and move toward steemit from facebook. Hope for the success of steemit and Dtube.
7 day payout limitation will be the greatest hurdle for dtube to take off. While the people who are initially on the platform won't mind it as they get good rewards initially, for the website to gain mass adoption the 7 day rule has to change. The 7 day rule is a problem for creating Quora like websites or wiki based websites.
But since steem is the blockchain that drives all these services I am not sure if this is ever going to change. May be side chains based on Steem could solve these issues. It is for this sole reason I am planning to invest in lbry and file coin.
Should see how Steem can adopt without upsetting the existing train.
Interesting concept your post made me think of. If someone wants to better monetize DTube, DTube could maybe launch its own token as a STEEM community token. DTube could have its own token which would pay alongside of STEEM payouts when someone upvotes.
Then if DTube did advertiser integration, and they pay with the DTube token, could create value and solve this issue of 7 days limitation. DTube token could be an on-going payout past the 7 days for the likes, plus could also be a vehicle for ad revenue to give it value.
It's a neat idea at least.
Very interesting post. Curious to try this one out myself to get some 1 on 1 results on DTube decentralized platform and then I might have a better insight into the matter. Upvoted, keep up the good work! 👍👍
Even the sole owner of the video file lawsuit to whom uploaded the copyrighted specimen, no one can take that specific video. Else they shutdown the dtube.video
Well the vids are on IPFS, so they could maybe takedown the main website link, but if the source code of the website is distributed, you could just end up with 20 mirrors that all run the platform, and then use IPFS just like the system already uses to access vids.
right and IPFS is not to shutdown without disconnecting every electronic device it could potentially run on.
The nodes that host the files can have the files blocks wiped from their store, rendering the hash known but unviewable until the content is reentered into the ipfs network,
It's also possible to track down which nodes have a copy of the file and attempt contact the owners for removal.
Finally IPFS does have DMCA precautions however they seem to have never been used and due to FOSS, can be easily bypassed (not that I advocate this in anyway, just talking factually.)
Is Dtube a company or a project? I saw an interview with the founder and he seemed cool (French I think?). Was there an ICO for it? Not sure why it's going under the radar.
"The only easy way around copyrights these days is sketchy websites where you are just as likely to get an internet virus as it is the content you are looking for would be there."
That's a good point I didn't think about that. It's why I usually fork out the 10 bucks a month for e.g. Netflix.
I'm a huge YT fan or should I say I was! I still watch every day but I'm eagerly awaiting the day when a project like Dtube really takes off and replaces YT. YT are going down with their recent censorship, that is not sustainable long term with blockchain technology coming up with a perfect solution.
Dtube is really needed youtube is really dying really really fast now that they have taken to censoring and demonitizing content
@crypto-investor you made some good points here, I just started using the dtube platform actually yesterday. Though it doesn't look to be overfilled yet, one can only imagine after it gets out there a bit more. I'll be following your content. Take care.