- Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) is taking its anti-piracy concerns very seriously and turning to blockchain tech for help.
- The company’s research department has released a research paper suggesting this.
- It will enable backtracking of pirated content and have incentive-reducing safeguards.
Microsoft is taking its anti-piracy measures to the next level, and blockchain technology seems to be the key. The leading developer’s research team has released a new paper about this.
The paper contains contributions from researchers from Alibaba (NYSE:BABA) and Carnegie Mellon University. It studies a blockchain-based incentive system to push anti-piracy campaigns. Titled Argus: A Fully Transparent Incentive System for Anti-Piracy Campaigns, the study suggests that Microsoft rely on blockchain’s transparency aspect. Since they will build it on the Ethereum blockchain, Argus will provid...