Dporn, the First True User-Generated Content Litmus Test for Steem?

in #steemit7 years ago (edited)

After Vice.org, in the most enjoyable n00btastic way, decided to fork the Steem blockchain and roll out its own blockchain, the Steem blockchain has a new adult entertainment kid on the block.

While registered since less than a month so far, the new player @dporn - yes, you guessed it correctly: decentralized porn; creative to the nth.

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Contrarily to Vice, who came with an announced existing rolodex in the industry, @dporn seems to have put some effort into its launch and has an effective launch date even (March 13, 2018).

More so even, @dporn already has launched its own token on the Bitshares network.

But there's something amiss with the new entrant. When I wrote about Vice's initial announcement, I mentioned that its team had the asset of being the owner of the Penthouse media library and thus would be able to launch with a vast inventory, all copyright owned. Vice, in its n00btastic ways, left any other possibility of expansion open, in true kitchen sink style, but that shall not be held against them.

When looking at dporn, there are no details whatsoever to be found on its homepage, only a link to its Steemit profile and the Bitshares token.

Other than that, the site makes use of a Youtube video as background. In itself, not big an issue but it does ring alarm bells.

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Combined with the almost childish tone of the @dporn Steem account, the use of a non-licensed background video becomes interesting though when reading the dporn's announcement post on Steemit

We don't need that much to get started as we just need to pay for some costs & our developer.

This, of course, is the wet dream of anyone wanting to launch an adult network online because it seems to include that no royalties need to be paid for the video library. While I'm not saying that @dporn stinks, something surely smells fishy so far. Anybody who over the years has followed the evolution of adult entertainment sites, especially streaming sites, has heard of the bitter copyright wars caused because users would upload any video they liked, no matter its license.

More so, in this decade the next question to be asked is what will @dporn, and thus also the Steem ecosystem, do in the case of uploaded revenge porn.

With Blockchains being undeletable[sic] ledgers, complete without DMCA mechanisms, who is responsible? More so... how will unauthorized, and possibly even illegal videos uploaded, be removed and what process will apply?

Is the blockchain, and thus also Steem.io, ready to deal with all possible user-generated content pitfalls?

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That’s the beauty and the beast of decentralised networks. Nobody would be held liable. It could probably work out similarly to Steemit - a community or “elected leaders of the pack” will have administrative roles and block or ban bad content. Would be a humongous amount of work of course but...there you go... decentralised :)


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What do you think could be the impact of decentralized on the value of STEEM?

If all of a sudden all copyright holders, their mega legal teams, and then also judiciary cases like revenge porn copyright issues (and lack of removal) pop up every day?

Decentralized is cool if you're the pornhub fighting Brazzers and other mega libraries. Not necessarily though if you're a stakeholder.

Apparently you are unfamiliar with how the blockchain works. Every upload is preserved in a publicly auditable ledger, meaning DMCA and court orders can be applied to the actual parties that violated the law.

Each person would be held to account for their... account.

On top of that, what do you think would be done about a network that could be claimed to facilitate 'criminal' activity?

Steemit, Inc. is not decentralized, and is utterly available to be held to account.

If you think a decentralized blockchain can be immune from government authority, you haven't looked at China's great firewall very closely, either.

Apparently you don't grasp the issue.

Holding Steemit accountable, as an interface to the blockchain, doesn't remove the content. DMCA can not be applied to the an undeletable ledger. The content stays on the blockchain.

If you read between the lines, I'm basically saying that all typical user-generated content pitfalls will hurt the Steem.io ecosystem and valution as such. Unlss the dcentrlized blockchain introduces new mechanics to deal with those possible pitfalls.

It's quite possible to remove content from the blockchain. The blockchain is just code, and the witnesses are the ones that post it. Code is infinitely mutable, and if the witnesses agree to do it, blocks can be deleted.

It would only take 51% of them to agree. Less if the blockchain is severed physically, as in firewalled in half. Then it would take as few as 34%.

Too many ifs.

It's all ifs, all the way down.

Yeah, given the rampant copyright issues on the web, I wouldn't want to be a static target for those whales hunting compensation.

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