Software piracy – or more precisely the type of piracy – problematic and has been around for years now.
Microsoft now has a plan to fight the threat of software piracy.
According to a report by Techradar, Microsoft researchers wanted to use blockchain to fight piracy problems.
In a research paper, Microsoft said, “Anti-piracy is basically a procedure that depends on data collection from anonymous population open, so how to provide credible reporting incentives is a question in the center of the problem.” To handle this problem, Microsoft wants to create a system – called Argus – which is built on the Ethereum blockchain and will allow users to anonymously report piracy.
Instead reported cases of piracy, Microsoft will pay the gift – a kind of financial record.
The next report said that the system will “track pirated content back to the source using a unique watermark that matches the secret code.
When pirated content is then reported, the source status (license holder) will be changed to” accused “and then become” guilty “if appeal Denied.
“In a research paper, Microsoft said that the current system has not been proven to be very effective.
“Alliances and industrial companies carry out anti-piracy incentive campaigns, but their effectiveness is asked publicly due to lack of transparency.
We believe that the full transparency of the campaign is needed to truly provide incentives to people.” This idea is not fully new because of South African companies.
Have the same idea a few years ago.
Microsoft, however, said that the system was practical and safe.
“With the security and practicality of Argus, we hope that real-world anti-piracy campaign will be truly effective by shifting to a fully transparent incentive mechanism,” added the researchers.
There is no clear time line when Microsoft will actually launch the system.