Why will book piracy die in 10 years?

Book piracy will be history in 10 years with BlockChain

The piracy of books will be history in 10 years from the hand of technology.

Book piracy kills culture. It does not bring it closer to the most disadvantaged, although that is a pending battle that must continue to be fought: for society to advance, culture must be available to everyone, it cannot be a luxury good. If we want to be a leading and fair society, culture, like health, must be a common good.

The office of writer is vocational. Every writer aims to make a better world with his works, bringing the reader imagination, opinion or knowledge, but writers need to survive. If piracy wins, culture dies. 

Trust and Survival.

We survive because we trust. Society exists because trust exists: every day we put our lives and the lives of those we love the most in the hands of many people, most of which we don't even know: We drive cars because we trust that the driver next to us will abide by the rules. We eat the food we buy in the supermarket because we trust that it will not be poisoned. We get on a plane because we trust that the pilot is a responsible professional. We take our children to the nursery because we trust that they will be well cared for and thus all the daily vital acts that we do on a daily basis.

Confidence is the key to life. That is why we are horrified when someone betrays her and a tragedy occurs: a drunk driver, a murderer, a perverted teacher or a consignment of contaminated infant milk. They are situations that remove our soul and generate impotence, betray what keeps us alive.

If writers don't trust that they will be able to live off their work, they will stop writing and then, there will be no culture for anyone: The writing would remain in the hands of a few authors managed by multinationals or political entities and that would mean the end of freedom. Preserving freelance writers is guaranteeing freedom of expression.

Where will the solution come from?

Of technology. Of something called Blockchain. We are not going to get lost in the technical ins and outs of how it works, although if someone is interested, they can contact me.  The Blockchain is a tracker that accumulates the information of each movement that makes what it tracks.

Social trust on the internet: guarantees?

Social trust on the internet: guarantees?

The piracy of books or music is just one of the many applications that this technology has that is already beginning to be used, why not? In financial transactions. Just as it protects and tracks money, Blockchain will progressively protect and track other things. I don't know where culture is on the technological waiting list, but the good news is that sooner or later it will come. What this technology achieves is mark each copy, every download that is made of a book and follow it until it is destroyed. What does this mean? We, readers, we will buy a digital book, we will read it, and when we finish, we can resell it in the second hand market or give it away, as if it were a book on paper. This tracking technology will detect every step that copy of the book takes: if it sells a thousand times, we will be able to know at any time who has bought it, on what date and for how much money. The same will happen with music, movies, video games or anything else that we can download.

We will see this technology tracking investments, stocks, bonds, public records, insurance, giving public faith more reliably than a notary, even replacing the traditional electoral system of going to the polls.  In an everyday example, if we want buy a house, a very important moment in our lives since it will mortgage us for thirty years, we will know when it was built, who bought it, whether or not it made reforms, what they consisted of, if the community has debts, if there have been spills, if there are repetitive breakdowns in the house or in the common areas, if it has been rented or if a neighbor has a noise complaint. All that information together when we find a house that we consider buying. The same will happen if we are interested in buy a second hand car, We will know all the owners who have had the car, the maintenance, recurring breakdowns or not, if it has had an accident or if it has been stolen, tire changes, insurance ... everything that happened in the useful life of the car. And we can consult it from our home.

When we have all the information, trust ceases to be an act of faith and is based on real facts. This is how a better and fairer society is achieved.

When will technological trust be part of our daily life?

Ten years experts say that it will take to spread to all the daily things of our life. Ten years to the end of piracy.


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  1.   Juan Carlos Ocampo Rodríguez Reading Room (Pnsl) "Veracruz 500 years" said

    Congratulations Ana Lena.

    You got to the bone marrow and also "with salt and lemon in the yolk."

    Unfortunately, the Chinese are experts in piracy and editorial plagiarism, in cahoots as a result of the high prices of books in the publishers' original market.

    «... From time to time I need to smell the sea, ...» (sic)

    Welcome to Veracruz, Ver., Mexico, a blink of the 500th birthday when Hernán Cortés arrived and disembarked in 1519, at the beaches of Chalchihuecan, (waters of jade color, green).

    I repeat myself to the correspondence of your fine attentions.

  2.   Maria Briceño said

    Prophecies about "the end of things" often end in myths. After all, 20 years ago they predicted the end of paper and book, the extinction of fossil fuels and at least three apocalypses. It's a very strong analogy, but it's my way of saying that I don't think there is any way to end piracy. Piracy advances and is updated. If the Blockchain were to cover the downloads of any type of material on the Internet, some software will be created that allows cutting the chain of information collection and people can use the materials as they please without being monitored.

    On the other hand, to say that piracy kills culture is an exaggeration. Culture is so broad, multifaceted, immeasurable, that it is part of an exchange that involves all of us as a society, it is not linked to the exploitation of property, even if they want to convince all of us that this is the case. Property rights must definitely be respected and defended, but without prejudice to what is termed in the article as "the most disadvantaged", because yes, unfortunately this society is not fair, nor do we all have the same access to culture, nor to culture. health, not even education, so it is unfortunate that a person does not have a way to buy a book and therefore decides to resort to an illegal download. For me it is a social problem, not so much one of trust, nor of seeking control and tracking methods. What murders piracy then, are the monetary interests of the exploitation of the rights to a work.

    The gaps continue to open more and more, culture struggles to spread and not be forgotten, authors have more platforms to publicize their works, but if it is believed that by tracking their creations they will prevent them from being pirated ... it is living under the prophecies of the end of the world, is to live a myth incautious.

  3.   Ana Lena Rivera Muniz said

    Thank you for your opinion, delighted to have different points of view. Perhaps a future article will emerge from this: I am firmly convinced that technology will bring culture closer to all people, starting with public digital libraries, where we can subscribe and download a limited number of books at a time, without any time restriction, read and return. It will be easier to have a much more complete assortment of books than the current one, since there are more and more works that are only published in electronic format and many out-of-print works on paper are being recovered into digital format. I totally agree with you: It is essential that culture is available to everyone, training is the basis of progress and peace, and I trust that this is going to be the not too distant future.