Poll: Should MaidSafe implement PtP (Pay the Provider)?

@happybeing got it. but i do like the idea of content categorization as a service. my only issue with PtP is that this classification needs to be a first-class citizen of the networkā€¦ not a ā€œnice to haveā€.

I donā€™t think your explanation justifies your uncompromising statement. Also, it isnā€™t clear to me what your argument is here.

Are you just saying that on YouTube, curated content always does better than none. Or that because YouTube is curated, and is a big success, thereforeā€¦

I donā€™t understand what you are saying, or how you think your experience indicates such certainty over SAFEnetwork.

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I donā€™t understand your last post either Iā€™m afraid - I can read it two ways. PtP should or shouldnā€™t be baked in?

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I see PtP and curation as co-existing. There is value in curation, and it too can be rewarded, but I think existing schemes provide for that. Iā€™d be happy for us to consider new ideas too of course.

Here I think we should stick to PtP potential benefits and flaws.

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You know while I still think youā€™re daft to make this statement.

You have a point here.

Iā€™ve been running the numbers and while yes one can argue that oneā€™s personal wallet is still devalued the network value of safecoin doesnā€™t change because holders of PtD and PtP are also using safecoin and even if they hoard it the network would treat them like all hoarders, the same if some billionaire bought up millions of safecoin and drove up the price, which in turn stimulated farming up the wazoo. It would simply drop the rate of safecoin rewards for farmers until things leveled off. Rinse and repeat.

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I posted something about exactly this (categorization / search as a first-class citizen) earlier today.

And why would you want to do this? :pouting_cat:

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To get this reaction from you actually :smile:

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Yes, and this is the reason why I think that if the producers get paid, the viewers should be the one paying. Thereā€™s no easier way to solve this.

I just proposed a different way where producers / uploaders could pay more than the mandatory PUT cost to get a share from the views, but ā€œnormalā€ (minimum fee) uploaders would not.

Nope. Didnā€™t ask anything. Just pointing out that youā€™re speaking in absolutes. Which may be handy for making your point seem true, but thatā€™s not the real world.

Youā€™re talking about that. And implying that. Iā€™m saying success !== a need for maintenance. It may encourage maintenance. But itā€™s not necessary.

Similarly to the example of literature. If people enjoy it, then the creator will be encouraged to invest more time in it. Thereā€™s no need to arbitrarily draw lines in the sand around an idea of what an app is.

And if they are creating something that people like, then brilliant. What more could you want?

Curation will become simple lists that because of dedup will reference the original work so the original creator will be rewarded even if you have a collection of vids/songs.

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All iā€™m saying is that the facilities and features that make curation easy and integrated have to happen for PtP to be feasible. Safe network must present a default configuration that enables things like virus warnings and content-blacklists. Maybe boostrapping off of x.509 certification as well (which is has central authority issues, but is generally accepted as a bridge between virtual and fiat identities). In general, curation and content classification needs to be baked in. That way we wonā€™t have to worry about

  1. PtP being exploited by people to copy original content. Too easy to do, and impossible to tell which is the original (indeed forgers could post before the creator, and could be better funded for promotion!)
  2. Safenet being treated the way Bittorrent is today: a protocol that many ISPā€™s block outright
  3. Safenet being shunned by content creators because of rampant forging

Any good solution to this problem is going to be messy. It will not resemble a nice curve. It will look more like a web of trust. What we can do is trust that users will prefer to pay the original producerā€¦ if itā€™s easy to identify who is who. And quality producers will provide things like x.509 certs to prove who they are even though an in-network web of trust might be a better solution.

Artists will have verified SAFEtwitter / etc (some sort of verified profile online) and will make sure people know which file is theirs if thereā€™s confusion

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I agree, artists will try to do that. Integrating something like ā€œkeybase.ioā€ might allow users to make that choice more easily. Again, if you donā€™t make it easy, and part of the default clientā€¦ people just wonā€™t care enough to do it. I have seen no evidence in my life that people will go out of their way to ensure the right people get paid for internet content. Does anyone look at a porn video and think: gee I hope that girl is getting paid for this viewership, rather than some middleman who stole the content. Let me check her SAFEtwitter / etc feed to be sure.

You need it to be built into the system: This content appears to be a replica of a signed original, would you like to view the original content and reward the original producer? Make it easy, and 99% of the people will do the right thing.

Not only thatā€¦ but copyright holders will recognize that the best way to get paidā€¦ is to upload content. This content appears to be a copyright violation, but there is no original available to view, do you still want to download it? Most users will just skip that warning.

Going further, if you allow producers to set pricesā€¦ well then. Now it gets interesting: This content appears to be a replica of a signed original, would you like to view the original content, for a fee of $0.20 USD?

A fee market like thisā€¦ for content, and built in to the system would change everything. Because now all content, of any kind, is instantly monetizable via MAID, and producers can set reasonable prices for content and users can choose, themselves, to risk violating laws while being informed of reasonable alternatives.

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@Erik_Aronesty I agree that those features you describe are useful and I want to see them, but I donā€™t accept they are essential for PtP to be an improvement over the status quo, nor that they should in effect be mandatory. I certainly want people to build those features in a decentralised way, and for people have the option to use them, but I donā€™t see it as practical to bake them into PtP.

Iā€™m not ruling it out, I just donā€™t think it is going to happen because I think it will be technically hard, potentially in conflict with the fundamental aims of SAFEnetwork (e.g lack of censorship and decentralised control), and it will be even more difficult to agree than PtP itself. To dispel those views Iā€™d like to see a this fleshed out into a proposal of what and how (on another topic).

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Isnā€™t (the above) essentially just tipping?

If she has a good fan base then Iā€™m sure the answer is yes.

Creating and fostering a following of people will become more and more important for artists on SAFE

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Safenet should be a network and distribution service only. Sites that pay producers for songs etc can be created by users rather than somehow be incorporated in the system. Besides, just because you give 10% of something of a song in safecoins to producers that means nothing in the real world and I highly doubt it will be appreciated because its still illegal.

In the future when safecoins are worth more real money you are also much more likely to be sued because suddenly there are money to be made out of content and producers will want more of it and demand it to be on their terms because its their content, why only 10%? I want 100%! If Safenet is only a network then at least they can say, hey sorry we are only a network and have no control of where the value goes.

How do they plan to file suit against a decentralized network? They canā€™t sue maidsafe the company as it doesnā€™t control the software or what people do with it. Nor can producers sue the users as they donā€™t know who they are or who is downloading what. How do you file suit if you canā€™t lock your target?

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SAFE is already a lot more than that, it is a world wide database (DHT)

SAFEcoin is already an addition to a network and distribution

Websites on SAFE are an addition to the network and distribution

And so on

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Who is ā€œyouā€ the opensource github repo? There is no owner to sue.

Also the 10% is not payment for the content so the network owns it, but rather a reward to encourage uploading of quality content. No wage, just some of the creators costs of production. As an incentive.

The farming reward is simply an incentive for farmers to contribute their spare resource, not a wage or such thing.

What you claim is really nonsensical

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