publishers.org

The concept of publishers can be a MAJOR incentive for this project to be accepted by the information related industries.

We have a huge real potential in every single industrial field related to content providing. We can easily attract film industries, music industries, game industries, ISPs, advertisers, news agencies, non-profit organizations, individual artists and much more. Possibilities are so huge that they are almost unimaginable at this point. We are going to change the entire copyright industry forever.

So I really think that this is crucial. We have to choose between:

a) Be another geek p2p protocol being used by people that won’t contribute to our economy. b) Go mainstream. Be the new revolution as iTunes was, but even much much wider. If we succeed, we are talking about the “entire world” using our system to interchange information, trade information, and correctly categorize information.

Note: if you look at current p2p systems, specially Kademlia (eMule), the search results are a total mess. Repeated content, corrupted content, fake content, incorrectly categorized content, illegal content, etc. We want to avoid that. Publishers will avoid that because they are actually humans looking for quality.

Bitcloud is constructed by the integration of an inter-dependant chain of modules and plugins, each one having its own BCL (laws).

For example, there are the fundamental modules of routing, storage, and goverment. From there on, a complete set of plugins can be constructed.

Each plugin will allow publishers to create sub-nets. In the case of the cloud module (the first and most important one) the publishers create a sub-net with only the content moderated by them. Collaboration between publishers is possible.

Examples:

• Cloud plubishers: a publisher does have a collection of files approved. For example, a film company, a music store, a software provider, etc.
• A social plugin, like Facebook, Twitter, and G+. Any publisher will have an independent social sub-net, so it is possible to create different social nets each one specialized under the rules of the particular publisher.
• A wiki plugin. Each publisher will have and moderate its own wiki.
• A forum plugin. Each publisher will moderate and establish the rules of his own forum.
• A market plugin. Each publisher will be in charge of one store or collection of stores and will moderate sellers and customers.

Now, the important thing to remember here is that nodes CAN select any publishers as they wish, and optimize the space and resources for THOSE publishers. Publishers can pay the nodes or make contracts, or some nodes can just be owned by the pusblishers.

Also, publishers act as escrow agents to facilitate transactions between the consumers of the content and the nodes when there is some paid service that needs to be made.

In this model, all content is encrypted both for transit and encrypted by a nonce key until payment is verified by the escrow agent; at which time, a key exchange mediated by the publisher occurs, the content is unlocked and the node receives payment.

Publishers have a toolset allowing them to automatically track whether content has been delivered, whether payment has been completed, and automatically notify both parties to a transaction that it has been completed successfully.

The possibilities are endless. We can virtually replace every single major layer of the actual Internet in a decentralized way by using publishers.

NOW, how can a company or corporation will want to enter into our structure if they CAN’T moderate and take control of the content they provide?

And if we remove publishers, some problems arise:

1. Low quality content: repeated with small variation, corrupted, illegal, incorrectly categorized, etc.
2. Sometimes, specially for non-profit organizations, their content will not be ranked apropiatelly and cannot compete against stupid videos which are less important for humanity but most fool people want to see, so they will be removed when space is over. Most artists will be against this too.
3. You are now centralizing power in botnets that will constantly going to be run to rank certain videos, and consume most of the bandwidth resources.
4. No motivation for artists and industries to enter a non-moderated system with low quality.
5. There could be legal issues because all nodes can be blamed to contain parts of illegal content (it doesn’t matter if they are stored encrypted because the content is plublicily accessible anyway).