Now I’m very curious, Erik
what is your solution?
What do you want to see happen? Say ppl listen to all your naysaying… Then what?
Just keep today’s broken system of I.P. laws forever and never change??
What are you fighting us for? Why can’t we do our experiments with PtP on the test nets and see how things go?
Honestly
I like this idea.
Once a digital work is made, it cannot be unmade. It is likely to find itself on a network where someone is free to copy it at no cost, therefore if the creator cares about making money from it then they have a choice of uploading it somewhere where they can get some kind of reward for it, keeping it private, or try to sell it through other means.
Once a digital item is published, then variants and adaptations of it can and should be produced for the good of humanity - “shoulders of giants”. For example someone might upload Star Wars episode I. Another person might alter 1 pixel in 1 frame and upload this too. As long as there is a timestamp and some metadata about the author then I’m going to prefer to download the ‘original’. However, if someone went to the trouble of editing out every scene with JarJarBinks, then a lot of people might prefer this version. In this case the editor deserves reward too. The content creator could have taken a similar amount of time to produce this version but chose not to.
The same goes for a software program, if I release version 1 of some accounting software and don’t do anything with it for a year, and then someone else makes a variant of it that is better, then value and innovation has happened that deserves reward. The original content creator had the choice to continue improving the product but chose not to.
– For digital content, the value is in the delta from the next best alternative from the perspective of the user. Not in the content itself.
For existing content, it might be possible for the network to do some kind of background google search for the new file to see if it already exists in the ‘open’ internet. If so, then any rewards could be held in escrow (in Ethereum!?) for parties to work stuff out.
Finally, if someone creates something truly wonderful - a poem, a political manifesto, a revolutionary scientific paper, then it will exist in safe for all time and will be referenced in it original form. These types of works would differ from blog posts and celeb gossip in that they will have a very long tail, potentially with GETs 100’s of years later. This could totally change humanities approach to the arts and science. Should the reward continue forever or perhaps there should be a half-life on the reward?
Time does not exist in the SAFEnetwork 
At this time producers and media companies keep tight reigns on original content and what goes onto the internet. SAFE (if some form of easy payment and/or PtP) will allow artists to break free of that bondage more and more. Then they can put their content onto SAFE and remove the need for copies and bittorrent. Obviously there needs to be some way tehy can be paid. PtP would help, maybe micro-payments might ease people into paying per use.
But supporting material & supporting media will help them increase their earnings. And some may even be happy with the small payments from PtP if its implemented. Not all artists want to live off their works.
Support for black-lists, and other content categorization must be a baked-in protocol and should be loaded with fairly restrictive defaults in the default client.
For example: This content is a likely a copy of a copyrighted work, would you rather view the original?
I used to work with DNSBL lists - and they still work very well. Once created a hybrid list which proxied for multiple weighted lists and my own honeypots. Example: Domain Name System blocklist - Wikipedia.
How exactly would content providers get their reward? It was said that they get 10% of the farmers. Will 10% of vault providers rewards be split among all content providers according to the number of get requests? That sounds like it would be an incredibly small amount.
Actually its based of gets to that particular ptp content. And 1 in 10xFD (FD=1/FR) gets will on average result in a coin attempt. No splitting done. Also the farmers who served up those chunks from that PtP content get collectively 10 times with the PtP uploader did
The fact that there is no way of preventing screen scraping is very similar to the fact that knock-off manufacturers can produce lookalike products.
While de-duping, tagging source, etc, will enable compensation for the poster, it won’t prevent a competitor from downloading/tweaking/reposting. The only thing that prevents that is either IP policing (a painful concept), rating system of community reputation (much better, but can be gamed) or natural forces of superiour marketing (whoever promotes their efforts the best, gets the most compensation).
Would love to know of other ways of handling this scenario, but initially the community reputation approach combined with marketing/market forces seems intuitive and not incredibly difficult to implement.