Blockchain's Role in Online Piracy Still to Be Seen, Irdeto Says
Despite the blockchain hype, the technology is young and the question of whether it's exacerbating online content piracy is tough to judge, Irdeto Senior Director-Cyber Services and Investigations Mark Mulready blogged Tuesday. The blockchain attraction for pirates is both the…
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pseudonymity and the distributed ledger that alleviates some possibilities of pirate peer-to-peer sites being shut down or blocked, Irdeto said. Play on Zeronet is probably the best-known distributed torrent site using blockchain, and PureVidz -- which used decentralized streaming -- is seemingly offline now but undoubtedly the concept will reappear, Irdeto said.