What is Po.et?
Po.et is a Ethereum blockchain based, decentralized, open and shared universal ledger designed to record metadata and ownership information for digital creative assets.
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It helps in the integrity verification, attribution, and history tracking of digital assets.
The rise of the digital media and internet has made it easier and convenient for the publishers to connect with their audience or readers.
But it also has increased the rate of plagiarism & content theft on a mass scale.
There were many incidents here on steemit too where content thieves steals other's content and claimed to be the actual creator and earned rewards from Steemit platform. They are stealing both the credits and rewards which is rightfully deserved by the original publishers.
Our dear of Steemit has caught some of them Red-handed here:
https://steemit.com/steemit/@sherlockholmes/case-6-busting-annart-s-ukrainian-fake-artist-ring
https://steemit.com/steemit/@sherlockholmes/case-3-katrinart-is-impersonating-artist-ekaterina-putyatina
https://steemit.com/steemit/@sherlockholmes/case-5-elena2017-is-just-as-fake-as-katrinart
These were on the cases of artforms. I've seen a lot of people here who directly copy paste articles from wikipedia, wikihow and other major media outles and paste it here to earn rewards.
A few of these thieves get caught all the time because the internet is like a giant network of bee-hive where all the busy bees are constantly communicating with each other. So, it's tough to get away with these thefts. But not always.
Since the process is manual and the spotter needs to have knowledge about the original creation, remember & identify it correctly to catch a content thief, most of these plagiarists get away with their thefts. It's possible to spot out a thief if he/she has stolen from a popular content creator but what if he steals underrated but good articles or other creations from less popular artists? Will anyone notice? Probably not. If you're a minnow like me, no one will notice when your content gets stolen because very few people know about you to identify your content.
Bot's like on Steemit and anti-plagiarism tools of Google does a good job finding out these crimes automatically but it also cannot cover every single one of these negative events.
Most of the time, the plagiarists & content thieves get away with their wrong deeds.
Well not anymore!
Po.et is going to eradicate plagiarism and safeguard your digital assets by assigning an content ownership and redistribution rights to your content in the blockchain.
Po.et protects your content from copyright infringement by keeping track of the content history on a public ledger.
It helps the content creators and publishers to generate immutable and timestamped titles for their works and registers them to the Po.et network. The metadata attribution of the digital assets remains safe and verifiable by every one in the world since it's stored on a decentralized open blockchain.
Blockchain is extremely powerful and it's uses are limitless. It's great that the Po.et team is harnessing this power to safeguard digital assets copyrights. It reclaims value for content creators, publishers and consumers and it also improves the internal discover-ability or audience-reach of digital creative assets.
Not only that, in the po.et network anyone can create and issue their licenses without the need of any third party.
The platform is a boon for content creators like us.
Please visit https://po.et/ to know more about it and contribute to the project by investing in POE tokens.