maxedgeronimo's comments

ninjas rock to ;-)

Hi rglulis, yes thats a good potential feature for further down the road, we had ideas like that. To begin with we would be limiting such a service to the sellers within the content network itself, so the intensity of the checks are not that substantial. over time the extensiveness of this service would be expanded, first to not just check as sales get made, but to generally check on the content across the network, and eventually if viable to do web wide search as service to image owners (for fee of course). This would not be using blockchain (might be nice to use golem - eth supercomputer eventually though ;-) It would simply be a supporting service of the blockchain based photo sharing social network

Hi throwaway049, yes thats right, both your comments spot on. The main goal is to prove ownership to support legal sale of image. and the real target for sales are buyers that need top quality high res images. Someone mentioned another idea for combatting pircay, eg identifying photos on the web that may be copies, and that is an interesting service that would be way down the road if at all.

Hi tw04, yes thats right, though it will depend also on the terms of the sale / license given by the seller, which in some cases may give the full rights to the image including the RAW file in some cases. All of which is under the discretion of the seller. In the case that they did give rights to the RAW file, then that user is the only one who gets the RAW file data, its passed to them via an ethereum escrow contract

Hi sharemywin, no the photo itself is not on the blockchain, only the details about the photo & timestamp. the photo served on the website is not the full high res image. That is stored off chain

Thanks for the love guys! still looking for rockstar devs to join the hackathon team. front/back end + ethereum solidity. ping us on mark at stratagility dot com. Funding is incoming.