lkngtn
commented
7 years ago Hi @DecentraliseGeorg -- I have mixed feeling about this one...
I was a user of OiNK and more recently What.cd and found the community to be one of the best places to enjoy music on the internet. The forums had some of the best discussion about music, and the collection was greater than any centralized and licensed service anywhere. Uploads were of the highest quality, with releases ripped into numerous lossless and lossy compression formats. The economics of the ratio system encouraged users to participate and contribute to the site by uploading content of the highest quality and ensuring that there were always seeds available. There were even community members who would release their music on the platform for free as a way to give back, but the reality is that most artists did not consent to their music being released in that way and the copyrights to their music which they have a reasonable expectation of being respected were being blatantly disregarded.
I think the idea of a decentralized p2p sharing network is a logical and perhaps inevitable application of Ethereum and district0x. However, I strongly believe that innovators and content contributors should be rewarded and incentivized to create good content. I would love to see this idea come to fruition, but would strongly encourage additional discussion to see if there is a way to encourage and include content creators into the community and to discourage blatant copyright infringement.
I think some of the technology that we are building on makes novel approaches to incentivisation and copyright protection feasible, and people are just starting to explore that area. Perhaps combining this with the patreon/curation market approach to help fund artists who release their content on the platform would be a good start? Perhaps this new funding/release mechanism could utilize a new type of license, I've been exploring the concept of community arbitrated license agreements for my Hive Commons project and I think a similar concept could work here.
Perhaps using the tokens that users get for curating and funding artists, could be used in this torrent distribution program in addition to the seed/ratio incentive?
miguelmarques70
Name
TheEtherBay - A Decentralised P2P file sharing district
Slack username: @georg
Purpose
Most P2P file sharing services (such as ThePirateBay, KickassTorrents, MediaFire, etc.) is being seen as illegal by governments all around the world. Most of these sites are censored, blocked, and removed. This makes it a perfect fit in an uncensored, unblocked and unremovable, decentralized network. Even though TheEtherBay mimics the name and functionality of ThePirateBay, it will take further steps to legalize it with its curation market model, token, and more.
Description
General Step-by-Step of the functionality of the district
The district works by these 4 easy steps:
Users and Profiles
In order to remain online privacy, users will not need to log in, and will, therefore, be given a randomized user ID, and can browse the site anonymously. But for the user to be able to comment, upload content, receive/pay tokens, vote, rank, and participate in the community, they will need to log in and create a profile. With internet freedom and privacy in its core, TheEtherBay will not ask users for an email address (or any other personal information). When you create a user, you will be asked to remember your information, because if you lose your password, you lose your account, and we will not be responsible for any loss of tokens, money or files.
Guest User
If you do not want to create a user and join the community, you can visit the site as a guest. When visiting as a guest, you will not be able to receive tokens, upload, comment, vote, or in any way contribute to the district. Guests will only be able to download files.
Back-end
The back-end of the district uses 3 of the 4 core functionalities from d0xINFRA: ☐ Posting & Listing For upload and content delivery in list formats ☐ Search & Filtering Making it easier to browse and find files ☐ Ranking & Reputation For rating file uploads, and for users to gain trust and feedback
The back-end will include integration of the decentralized file storage platform, Swarm -> http://swarm-gateways.net/ This will enable users of the district to upload and deliver downloadable files. Smart contracts (and open-source libraries) will contribute to control and automate everything from decision making to user voting.
The EtherBay Token (EBT)
The EtherBay Token will be used throughout the whole district, and be used for a variety of things. As for back-end purposes, it will be used for: ☐ Data processing ☐ Authenticating and authorizing ☐ Secure storage But most importantly, the token will be a critical part of our curation market model.
Curation Market Model
As a way to reward uploaders for their contribution, we will have a curation market model. The model will work as the following:
When uploading a file, a user gets an amount of tokens. Tokens are used to vote, contribute and joining chatroom communities. When a user does not have any tokens left, he/she needs to upload a file in order to receive more tokens. This will make people upload more constantly in order to get tokens, but also reward content creators for their hard work and as a thank you for uploading their content.
Update 2
TheEtherBay v2.0, as seen on the sitemap, will include some more, less important, but still critical, features to the district. The reason why these features will come later, in another update, is both because of time, priority, and to see wether or not the district becomes successful. If the district do become a success, v2.0 will come soon after v1.0.