Securing the transfer and controlling the piracy of digital files using Blockchain

Abstract

With the increasing Digitalisation, everything is made available online from books to movies, from tickets to songs, from photographs and motion pictures to software. To fully utilise the benefits of this digitalisation, the online transfer of documents is also in boom. This improvement has led to advancement in file sharing technology that results into information distribution in much convenient way. But this has also resulted in the unethical way of downloading and distributing the materials. This unethical way of digital content distribution is known as Digital Piracy. To control the digital piracy, many copyright protection systems have been adopted like digital watermarking, digital fingerprinting, digital rights management, encryption etc. these systems have some loopholes, that can be removed by using the Blockchain Technology. This chapter focuses on reviewing the capabilities of the existing copyright protection system, related works in this area using Blockchain technology and proposing the idea of applying Blockchain technology with the license generation in order to provide more protection to the existing copyright protection system.