In more grey areas, although admins can remove, say, free speech pictures, the picture remains there, with anyone free to create a new interface allowing the picture to be easily accessed. So it's a bit similiar to the internet where anyone can - or maybe now, could - create a new site and upload the info.
You can then add more user level jury aspects on top, but I doubt anyone wants to face that sort of stuff and moderate it if the network was to gain scale. If we go back to the centralized website though, it becomes a bit interesting.
Take Milo's banning example - just because it is the most recent and comes to mind. We have the twitter website with Milo banned. Under this scheme, we can have a twitter classic with Milo not banned. Both of them have the same network effect, the same users etc, they identical in all ways, but in one Milo is banned in the other Milo isn't with the only other difference being that they have different domain names.
When we all agree something is abhorrent, everyone uses the non cp network through the centralized website interface, while some go to... like now we have internet and tor, when something is in a bit of a grey area, however, there is an added benefit.
Say, for example, reddit took some action against everyone's opinion. The current option is for everyone to move to a new site. That's of course a bit difficult as it requires a change of habit and changing habits can be stupendously extremely hard.
With this, or more generally, with a blockchain based approach, you don't ask anyone to shift at all. There is no shifting. All users remain, the entire network effect is still there. There are no bootstrapping questions etc. No starting back from zero. All there is, is typing a new domain, far, far easier than persuading everyone to start a new town in a ghost desert place.
So, it is obviously not a utopia, but, it is a bit of an improvement. The whole thing is very much at a cable switching for phone calls stage though, so, everyone is sort of considering this matters.
I do not feel that confident in mass moral behaviour. Observe Reddit.
Does anyone have a clue, how this should work? Eg, if I just 'steal' a pic and change slightly its brightness, color curve, crop, blurriness, etc. will the system still be able to identify the original?
Otherwise great idea.
-Photos for sale are identified as rightfully owned by having RAW file details published to the blockchain (actual High Res image is not stored on chain)
Then the only benefit is the creator has got proof of the creation date, the pirate couldn't prove they created the content before that date.
Not in cryptoworld. This is an application running on Ethereum. The entire point of the platform is to provide means for people to interact without necessarily trusting each other.
This is terrible advice. But note that two of your examples have ratings systems as a first-line anti-abuse measure, and dropbox like all the other hosting services do notify-and-takedown for copyright infringement. They also disable dropbox sharing if it's too widely used.
If it's on the block chain and everyone has a copy can't I just copy it directly from the blockchain?
For those who aren't into music that much, how about ninjas? :)
*Possible in the mathematical sense, it may not be practical.
I note they also only display low res until you buy a high quality version. That's what I do too. If someone wants to save/share my low res images its no problem. If they want something magazine or billboard res (ie commercial) they have to come to me.
The remedy, in other words, remains legal. I see this as a tool for facilitating legal remedy. (Or have I missed your point completely?)
That's not enough. What if someone publishes before the author. Say I buy something from other resource or even directly and publish it on the OP's.
I don't see the way how this could be implemented to blockchain. If every blockchain node downloaded and compared all images It would create massive bandwith and need for cpu/gpu power. Or am I missing something?
Look at Steemit for examples of people making money from original content.