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, which securely and comprehensively consolidate the different interests of all roles. These objectives form the core of the Argus design, highlighted by our innovations about a Sybil-proof incentive function, a commit-and-reveal scheme, and an oblivious transfer scheme. In the implementation, we overcome a set of unavoidable obstacles to ensure security despite full transparency. Moreover, we effectively optimize several cryptographic operations so that the cost for a piracy reporting is reduced to an equivalent cost of sending about 14 ETH-transfer transactions to run on the public Ethereum network, which would otherwise correspond to thousands of transactions. With the security and practicality of Argus, we hope real-world anti-piracy campaigns will be truly effective by shifting to a fully transparent incentive mechanism.
翻译:产业联盟和公司正在开展反海盗激励运动,但由于缺乏透明度,它们的效力受到公开质疑。我们认为,一项运动的充分透明度对于真正激励人民是必要的。这意味着每一个角色,例如内容所有者、内容许可者或开放人口中的每个人,都可以理解该机制,并且保证其实施而不必信任任何单一角色。我们认为这是一个分布式系统问题。我们在本文件中提出Argus,这是反海盗运动的一个完全透明的激励系统。Argus的基础是制定完全透明的激励机制的目标,这种机制能够安全和全面地巩固各种角色的不同利益。这些目标构成了Argus设计的核心,我们通过创新来强调对Sybil的激励功能、承诺和报复性计划,以及一个模糊的转移计划。在执行过程中,我们克服了一套无法避免的、对反海盗运动的激励系统。我们克服了一套无法避免的、对反海盗运动的扭曲性障碍,尽管有14种透明度,我们通过完全的公开性报告来降低透明度。这些目标构成了Argus设计的核心。这些目标,我们通过创新来强调对安全交易的透明性、承诺和报复性计划以及一个模糊的转移计划。在实施过程中,我们将克服一系列不可避免的障碍,确保真实的、真实的、真实地降低真实的公共安全交易的成本交易,而以完全地将降低成本报告。