Of course, we still have 'the hard problem' unsolved, we only transformed it into a different hard problem, but the difference is I think we don't actually have to solve this one! We could be piggybacking on some pre-existing social graph, possibly decentralized and quasi-anonymous. So, something exactly like a regular certificate authority: there is a trusted CA, and it can manually sign other CAs that become trusted as well, anyone can revoke certificates and so on, but instead of 1 root CA there are possibly many, different for different nodes/people. So it seems like we could have something like a decentralized certificate authority. I mean, you don't need a score and many votes to mark item as 'trusted': you only need 1 trusted vote. Which gives me a third idea: to know that an item is trusted, you don't really have to make a decentralized reputation system. But then again, it seems practical, but not really decentralized anymore, as it often happens. The second idea, which comes to mind is that there are 'reputable' release groups for most of the content anyway, many with a web-page of their own, and it would suffice to make signing with a private key a common practice, or maybe even implement some sort of standard protocol to fetch these keys and verify torrents (with curated source lists).

On the other hand, I'm not sure that incentive to fake torrents is THAT high, so maybe some very weak version of it would suffice, because very few will be ready to spend money to create fake votes for their torrents. Or you would need to implement all the same PoW as other cryptocurrencies, with is an unwelcome overhead, considring people don't even like to seed torrents for too long. But thinking again, I'm not sure, wouldn't it be rather expensive to run on a blockchain? Either you use some pre-existing blockchain with smart contracts & such: so basically, make an Ethereum DApp and burn gas. It is important to protect the rights of creatives around the world from theft.Blockchain was the first thing I thought about, because that sounds like an poster-child case of actually useful blockchain. A fourth individual was identified as a coder for the site and its first user.ДЇollowing coverage of PIPCU's investigation, actor Sylvester Stallone (who stars in вЂњThe Expendables 3вЂќ, said: вЂњIвЂ™d like to thank the PIPCU for working with HSI to apprehend the suspect in this case.

One of the men, moments before his arrest, messaged the other members of the website stating вЂњremove site and shut down police at my doorвЂќ.ДЄ third man, who is believed to have deleted the site two days after the arrests, was also sentenced.

In November 2014, HSI and PIPCU officers arrested two men on suspicion of being involved in a conspiracy to defraud Lionsgate Films. US law enforcement Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) then completed an investigation into the release of the film and referred information to the City of London PoliceвЂ™s Intellectual Property Crime Unit (PIPCU).Дetective constable Mark Baker of the City of London policeвЂ™s fraud squad, said: вЂњThis was an incredibly organised group who purposefully set out to defraud film companies.

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