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White Paper Published by Microsoft Describes an Ethereum-Based Tool to Combat Pirated Content

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White Paper Published by Microsoft Describes an Ethereum-Based Tool to Combat Pirated Content


Researchers from Microsoft, Alibaba Group, and Carnegie Mellon University have published a paper that claims the Ethereum network can help prevent piracy. The paper, called “Argus: A Fully Transparent Incentive System for Anti-Piracy Campaigns,” describes how Argus is superior to existing solutions. Argus: An Ethereum-Powered Anti-Piracy Tool


A study written by Xian Zhang, Xiaobing Guo, Zixuan Zeng, Wenyan Liu, Zhongxin Guo, Yang Chen, Shuo Chen, Qiufeng Yin, and Mao Yang shows researchers have developed a new blockchain-powered incentive system for anti-piracy campaigns. The authors come from Carnegie Mellon University, Alibaba Group, and Microsoft Research Asia. Argus is a “fully transparent” system according to the Argus white paper hosted on microsoft.com.


“The groundwork of Argus is to formulate the objectives for fully transparent incentive mechanisms, which securely and comprehensively consolidate the different interests of all roles,” the researchers write. “These objectives form the core of the Argus design, highlighted by our innovations about a Sybil-proof incentive function, a commit-and-reveal scheme, and an oblivious transfer scheme. In the implementation, we overcome a set of unavoidable obstacles to ensure security despite full transparency,” the white paper’s authors add.


The white paper continues: Moreover, we effectively optimize several cryptographic operations so that the cost for piracy reporting is reduced to an equivalent cost of sending about 14 ETH-transfer transactions to run on the public Ethereum network, which would otherwise correspond to thousands of transactions. Researchers Believe the Blockchain Tool Is Superior to Existing Solutions


The move by Microsoft to develop an Ethereum-fueled anti-piracy system follows the company’s decentralized identity solution that leverages the Bitcoin (BTC) blockchain. Microsoft launched the ION Decentralized Identifier (DID) network on the Bitcoin mainnet on March 25, 2021. The developers of Argus are concentrating on fighting pirated content and the researchers hope “real-world anti-piracy campaigns will be truly effective by shifting to a fully transparent incentive mechanism.” The authors from Alibaba, Carnegie Mellon, and Microsoft say: Argus exemplifies the outcome of this disciplined approach. It is superior to existing solutions in terms of the trust assumption and the assured properties.


What do you think about the anti-piracy blockchain tool’s white paper hosted on microsoft.com? Let us know what you think about this subject in the comments section below. TIME Partners With Cool Cats NFT Project, Business Magazine Fortune"s NFT Sale Raises $1.3M BLOCKCHAIN | 2 days ago Troop of Bored Ape NFTs Rises Above the Competition, BAYC Donates $200K in ETH to Orangutan Outreach BLOCKCHAIN | 5 days ago Tags in this story Anti-Piracy, Argus, Blockchain, Blockchain tech, Blockchain Tool, Ethereum, ION Decentralized Identifier (DID), Microsoft, Microsoft Ethereum, piracy, Pirated Content, tool, White Paper


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