THELOGICALINDIAN - A agenda publishing solutions startup has created afresh use for Bitcoin bounties which turns cyber abyss on themselves and can banderole media piracy in 45 seconds
Operating with agenda agreeable from ebooks to video and audio, UK-based Custos Media Technologies aims to anticipate absorb contravention and piracy of ebooks by embedding bitcoins in agenda media content.
In so doing, Custos is acquisitive to brand out artifice while accouterment a bigger another to the industry than the options currently used, accurately alleged “hard agenda rights management” (DRM) and watermarking.
“We saw an befalling to advance a band-aid that avoids the downsides of hard-DRM while accouterment a added able-bodied apprehension apparatus and able bridle to piracy than accepted watermarking or amusing DRM,” Ryan Morison, CEO of Custos’ ancestor aggregation Erudition Digital, told industry advertisement The Bookseller.
Dedicated schemes for compensation hunters to bolt abyss are boring surfacing, but accomplish mainly in technical circles. As Bitcoin bounties tend alone to come to the attention of the accessible back accepted by hackers, their use as a bent bridle marks a atypical shift.
Small sums of bitcoin are anchored in various products and can alone be claimed once, no amount how generally that artefact (that is, file) is affected or aggregate around.
Trials of the technology accept flagged piracy on amusing networks aural 45 abnormal of release, which has led Morison to accept the abstraction has 18-carat amount over industry standards.
Hard DRM, for example, requires diffuse sign-up and licensing processes for customers, which avert them from affairs absolute from publishers. The aftereffect is a abridgement of antagonism and aerial levels of piracy, abnormally on amusing networks and the darknet.
“Custos for eBooks provides publishers with an another to adamantine DRM which in about-face makes affairs through added channels (including absolute to customer) viable,” Morison continued.
He added that tests had been auspiciously agitated out allegory bankrupt networks, such as university intranets, and had alike delivered after-effects with emails. The aboriginal alive bartering appliance of the technology is already available.
“Some publishers accept already experimented with bottomward DRM altogether but we’re acquisitive that our band-aid provides a added acceptable advantage for abounding others who appetite to bead DRM but still crave some anatomy of aegis adjoin piracy,” Morison hopes.
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