Reliable, Fair and Decentralized Marketplace for Content Sharing Using Blockchain
Prabal Banerjee, Chander Govindarajan, Praveen Jayachandran, Sushmita, Ruj

TL;DR
This paper presents a decentralized, blockchain-based content sharing platform that enhances transparency, fairness, and reliability for artists and consumers by eliminating central authorities and enabling automatic, auditable transactions.
Contribution
It introduces a novel decentralized platform combining blockchain and fault-tolerant storage to ensure fair content monetization without central control.
Findings
System built on Hyperledger Fabric and Tahoe-LAFS is practical and scalable.
The platform ensures transparent and automatic payments to content creators.
Low overheads demonstrate system efficiency.
Abstract
Content sharing platforms such as Youtube and Vimeo have promoted pay per view models for artists to monetize their content. Yet, artists remain at the mercy of centralized platforms that control content listing and advertisement, with little transparency and fairness in terms of number of views or revenue. On the other hand, consumers are distanced from the publishers and cannot authenticate originality of the content. In this paper, we develop a reliable and fair platform for content sharing without a central facilitator. The platform is built as a decentralized data storage layer to store and share content in a fault-tolerant manner, where the peers also participate in a blockchain network. The blockchain is used to manage content listings and as an auditable and fair marketplace transaction processor that automatically pays out the content creators and the storage facilitators using…
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