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.