I think the bigger problem is the firehose of plagiarism spam of late. People take public stories and just copy+paste onto Steemit.
The problem is twofold. One, they're benefiting from someone else's work at almost zero effort. Two, it creates a legal risk for Steemit and puts all our Steem and SBD in danger.
Yes you are right and this plagiarism will not allow good content to be trending because after posting less people will Be able to see the post and post become unpopular if not upvoted or promoted by any whale.
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That's an interesting point, would be good to know who could be legally held responsible. The platform or the user? Or both?
Steemit is not the first or last website to host a lot of content that is in violation of copyrighted materials, but since every single piece of content is monetized, it could potentially come under more fire at some point.
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Unlike Reddit where content is linked to, people directly copy/paste onto Steemit. In countries like the UK where blocking/banning particular domains is actually something the legal system can require an ISP to do, this could cause a huge problem for us.
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