“I realized if you allow anyone to mint anything and sell it pseudonymously, plagiarism is built into that,” he said. “If your system is built on decentralization as a core building block, there’s just no fixing that problem. It’s just inherent in the fundamentals.”
I did not read the link. But copyright is mostly defending large organisations this century, rather than its intended defense of the merit and value of creative individuals.
I usually see this the enforcement way: "oh no assassination" -- but now I see it is about p2p forthrightness.
In the developing labyrinth progress will be slower,but sure,toward
distributed,P-P,encrypted,alternate OS plug ins that will
accomplish all we seek to achieve.
But remember, please, the Law by which we live,
We are not built to comprehend a lie.
We can neither live nor pity, nor forgive,
If you make a slip in handling us you die!
--The Secret of the Machines-- Rudyard Kipling
It's been a few decades, and a more direct and focused approach to the decentralised norm may be needed.
I'm thinking of, for example, adding basic decentralised components to mainstream browsers or operating systems. Rather than add-on apps that only a few use -- see what parts the central projects might accept.
Ideas.