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RE: Is Steemit.com protected as intellectual property?
Dang bro that’s a bit of information I did not know about the web interface, so we are good to duplicate the chain but when it comes to the front end we are not?
Now have they released a github including the web interface? I’d imagine that would through out the claim for intellectual property being open source?
If it is so and they can file a claim I would think it could be a good thing, legal standings if ruled in favour would work towards building reputation of the platform as a whole. Yet I wonder about complications of censorship after that point then return charges for Steemit Inc for liability of the content published on chain?
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I have no idea, but it seems like a pretty important issue, especially with all the clones starting to pop up now.
Looks like it will come down to the finer details. When you say clone I assume you mean an exact duplicate or hardly distinguishable or am I wrong there?
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Yes, there are several that are almost exact duplicates with less than 10% of the website changed.
Is smoke.io a clone of steemit.com? NO. Smoke.io is a front end. Smoke blockchain INNOVATES off what steem is. Because they removed delegations (the toxic bidbot culture) and SBD (market manipulated garbage). Just my 0.02.
SBD is good because it allows to internally short STEEM.
Delegations are also good, because they lower the level of trust needed in order to temporarily transfer SP.
The main 2 evils of STEEM are:
There are more evils in STEEM, but delegations and SBD are not among them.
Still, good to know about smoke.io.
May be worth a try.
Delegations enable bidbots to infect new users claiming ROI % that are not true. SBD, was manipulated to 14usd, that isn't safe or healthy for anyone.
Why was it not "safe or healthy"? Just because it didn't stay pegged to a dollar like it was intended doesn't mean it wasn't safe or healthy. It was simply what happens when a coin enters the free market and its price is dictated by supply and demand. In fact, elevated SBD prices could be argued to be one of the best things to happen to steemit.com in terms of user growth.
If there was no STEEM premine, there would not have been so much STEEM to delegate to bidbots, at least not to the biggest ones.
When SBD peaked, it was very healthy for those whom sold it near its peak.
I never delegated any of my SP to any cause and never paid for a delegation.
Still, delegations are a good concept and a good feature to have.
Agreed. The steem premine is one of the biggest obstacles to making steemit.com work like it was designed to, though there are other issues as well. Account inequality at launch was a big hurdle that has been very difficult to overcome.
Corrected.
Which other issues?
I know about other issues, yet you may know about others which I may still not be aware about.
Does "account inequality" mean premining, or another thing?
There are many, but there are no obvious solutions. I for one don't think a linear voting model can work if the goal is to reward the best content. Also, not having account verification causes a lot of problems, but that is not a popular solution. There are several other smaller changes to the economic structure that might help as well. Though it would all function much better if everyone started at the same level when things launched, and also if there some benevolent moderators (which would have to be monitored), but again that is not a popular move. And yes by account inequality I was referring to the setup when things launched, several accounts received tons of virtually free steem which have caused trouble for the platform mostly ever since.
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So it would be the differences that make it none intellectual property theft?
I know Smoke has many differences but was it built off the supposed protected property or was it completely designed from the ground up? Does that matter? I’m still confused about the exact details of what would be protected by Steemit Inc if everything has been publicly released?
I assumed that we were talking about weku as I have not looked into it, figured it was a direct duplicate or something.
Smoke to me feels like it’s own thing with a entire culture around it getting back to what I imagine Steemit to have started off with, till the investors started figuring ways of maximizing profits and pushing for development changes to make them possible. It has its own branding and differences on nearly every piece of the front end, though small they are still not a duplicate by any means IMO.
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Yes , and the entire whitepaper is different, the front end smoke.io has a different use , it's not a test bed. They have advertising planned as well, so you tell me, is this the same IP, i don't see it as the same.