Re:How companies use fake sites, backdated articles to censo...
by nielsole on Monday October 01, 2018 @01:02AM
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By having the timestamp be signed by a trusted party. Either a single entity or e.g. the blockchain
Re:How companies use fake sites, backdated articles to censo...
by smelendez on Monday October 01, 2018 @01:46AM
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This is basically the purpose of copyright registration and filing your work with the Library of Congress
Re:How companies use fake sites, backdated articles to censo...
by cheeze on Monday October 01, 2018 @01:23AM
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I agree that would be a potential solution but it's too far removed from reality to even be a consideration imo.
You'd need some sort of negative affirmation as well. "when I published this article, searching for it yielded nothing" signed by a trusted party would be a stronger statement. But no clue how you actually do that.
Re:How companies use fake sites, backdated articles to censo...
by Too on Monday October 01, 2018 @02:39AM
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Even if the third party reliably proves your article is published october 1, what prevents the scammer from publishing an article with a fake date of june 21 on plain www-internet? It's not like the scammer is going to publish the article hash on any block chain.
Something like this can only work if all news publishers always publish the article hash and those that don't will simply not get crawled and not be valid as proof in DMCA takedowns.
Re:How companies use fake sites, backdated articles to censo...
by Natanael_L on Monday October 01, 2018 @11:05AM
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Timestamp before you publish.
a timestamp can't prove anything. What stops somebody else from copying your content, but timestamping it earlier and submitting it as proof? How can google verify it?
In fact, google may have an incentive to allow this - since those scammy sites may actually be using google ads, while legit sites may have their own ad-nework which google may not be part of...