This creates a line in the sand for all content up until the network is live, so basically everything which currently exists will be uploaded by whomever wants to reap the reward. So, if fairness is the desired result then long term this works but very not good for rewarding the correct individual short term. For ‘old content’ some system for group voting the correct creator/owner of the content would be a fix I guess. Pretty impossible to implement this though as the network would have to know all content which currently exists in order to be able to distinguish whether to apply first uploader rule vs group voted content creator rule, hmmmm…
I’m not so sure this is something in my mind that the network should to do innately, even if it could be done well. It doesn’t seem to serve the security, privacy, freedom principle even if it is arguably a ‘fairer’ system. I might feel different when the network is no longer just an idea in my mind and a tangible thing to play with, so take these musings with a pinch of salt from someone not at all close to the problem:)