Argus: A Fully Transparent Incentive System for Anti-Piracy Campaigns (Extended Version)
Xian Zhang, Xiaobing Guo, Zixuan Zeng, Wenyan Liu, Zhongxin Guo, Yang, Chen, Shuo Chen, Qiufeng Yin, Mao Yang, Lidong Zhou

TL;DR
Argus introduces a fully transparent, cryptographically secure incentive system for anti-piracy campaigns, enhancing trust and effectiveness by ensuring all roles understand and verify the process without reliance on trust.
Contribution
The paper presents the design and implementation of Argus, a novel transparent incentive mechanism incorporating cryptographic schemes to improve anti-piracy reporting.
Findings
Achieves security and transparency in incentive mechanisms.
Reduces cryptographic operation costs significantly.
Enables practical deployment on Ethereum with low transaction costs.
Abstract
Anti-piracy is fundamentally a procedure that relies on collecting data from the open anonymous population, so how to incentivize credible reporting is a question at the center of the problem. Industrial alliances and companies are running anti-piracy incentive campaigns, but their effectiveness is publicly questioned due to the lack of transparency. We believe that full transparency of a campaign is necessary to truly incentivize people. It means that every role, e.g., content owner, licensee of the content, or every person in the open population, can understand the mechanism and be assured about its execution without trusting any single role. We see this as a distributed system problem. In this paper, we present Argus, a fully transparent incentive system for anti-piracy campaigns. The groundwork of Argus is to formulate the objectives for fully transparent incentive mechanisms,…
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Taxonomy
TopicsBlockchain Technology Applications and Security · Advanced Steganography and Watermarking Techniques · Internet Traffic Analysis and Secure E-voting
