Half the crap on this platform is plagiarism. Even some of the people who are on the trending daily: adsactly etc... they all use some form of plagiarism or another. Just because you wrote "pictures from blah blah," doesn't mean you are able to use those pictures. Especially when you are gaining a profit from them.
I have always thought this is going to be the ultimate downfall of Steem; it will be attacked just like torrent sites, and shut down.
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Adsactly! I couldn't disagree with you on that. I painstakingly check to see if the images are on Non Commercial license. I'm ashamed to admit though, that I have never bothered checking licenses for the few gifs I have thrown in to recent posts. I find those quite tacky anyway so i am now questioning whether to use them in future. They tend to give my otherwise nice posts, a sort of adsactly feel to them ;-) Oh the pressure of the herd! Ought we all to congregate around the lowest denominator already?
Steem can't be shut down like torrent sites loooool. You can't just go and hack all the witnesses or attack a blockchain. That's the point of it being a blockchain. It will become a behemoth regardless of the legality of the content within. The only thing that will change is how acceptable it becomes overall for corporations and society.
Could witnesses be sued personally for their role in breaching copyright though?
No, they can't censor Steem, so they can't be to blame for the freedom of speech that allows for copyright infringement.
I'd be happy to continue this discussion further, for the sake of playing devil's advocate, but probably best to not do it in public. Let's just hope you are right.
That is flat wrong.
You can sue anyone that is offering access to the copyrighted content.
You don't have to attack the block chain, you attack it just like you attack torrent sites. You block the HTML interface (domain) from being able to appear on the internet. Literally just force host to not host steemit.com or any other iteration of such.