Microsoft software products traditionally occupy one of the first places in popularity on pirate sites. The company plans to use Ethereum technologies to combat piracy.
Researchers at Microsoft, along with analysts from Alibaba and Carnegie Mellon University, conducted a study on the benefits of blockchain to combat online piracy.
The report, entitled “Argus: A Transparent Incentive System for Anti-Piracy Campaigns,” presents an experimental Argus system based on the Ethereum blockchain. It provides rewards for reporting piracy while keeping the data of people reporting such incidents protected.
“During implementation, we overcame a number of inevitable barriers to security and anonymity, while maintaining absolute transparency,” the analysts write.
The Argus system allows a pirated product to be traced back to its source using a special algorithm. Piracy reports are also referred to as “proof of leakage” in the system and go through a special tagging process. Thus, the distribution of the same copy of the program can only be reported once. In addition, the person who downloaded this copy will not be able to receive multiple rewards for reporting piracy under different pseudonyms.
“With Argus, we hope that anti-piracy campaigns will be truly effective through a transparent reward mechanism,” the report says.
Recall that in mid-May, Microsoft announced the end of support for the Azure Blockchain Service, its own cloud platform based on the blockchain.
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