Chinese Internet Court Decides: Blockchain Will Fight Online Plagiarism

In the Easter Chinese City Hangzhou, a new internet court was launched and according to the latest blockchain news, the court will now start fighting online plagiarism for online writers with the help of blockchain technology.

China launched its first internet court so they can solve all of the internet related cases and reduce the costs of getting justice.

The court is expected to accept court filings and cases electronically and has to rule online cases via live stream. The plaintiff’s identity will be verified with a government-issued ID or with their Alipay account.

The Internet Court will work as an incubator for regulating and protecting the internet space in China but also settle Internet disputes. Hangzhou is a city in China that has a lot of online writers. There’s even a ‘’writers’’ village where hundreds of people are online writers.

Online writers have a lot of trouble with privacy and it is extremely difficult for them to prove ownership of a certain article. The writers first used to download and screenshot their articles as proof of ownership but later found out that these proofs are easily forged.

Also, the legal services and fees are high and writers can’t pursue justice against forgers and those who steal their work. However, the new internet court will store the data on a distributed ledger and it claims that it will be impossible to tamper the evidence.

The blockchain is the option for these online writers because of its tamper-proof nature, the easy ability to track authorship and monitor the time of creation.