The global system behind a viewer’s transaction of watching a movie or TV show impacts viewers and show creators every day. What if all stakeholders had the same facts – Writers, Producers, Directors, Unions, Studios, Networks, Distributors, Theaters, Broadcasters, Cable Providers, Satellite providers, OTT providers and viewers? Blockchains offer precisely this opportunity. In this article we are going to explore new methods for enabling accountability in pre-production, production, post production, distribution, consumption and reporting with a secure chain of custody and metadata to be accessed, including key social attributes such as viewing method, display usage, rights compliance, and digital rights management.
Speaker : Steve Wong, HPE
1. Blockchain &
The Hollywood
Supply Chain
The Entertainment Technology Center
vNAB Innovation Conference
Steve Wong, Director of Business Development
March 20, 2017
3. Who in the audience knows the term Blockchain?
Confidential 3
4. Has anyone in the audience done a transaction paying with bitcoin?
Confidential 4
5. Is anyone a Bitcoin miner in the audience?
Confidential 5
6. What the Internet did for information,
Blockchain will do for transactions
Confidential 6
7. “Blockchain allows for one Internet user to transfer a
unique piece of digital property to another Internet user
such that the transfer is guaranteed to be safe and
secure... The consequences of this breakthrough are
hard to overstate.”
Confidential 7
- Marc L. Andreessen, Co-founder Andreessen Horowitz & HPE Board of Directors
9. What is Blockchain?
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• The technology behind Bitcoin
• A ledger of transactions replicated to
all servers
• Distributed, peer-to-peer network
• Requires no central authority
• Digital cryptography ensures
- Transactions are verifiable
- System is tamper-proof
• Ledger updates are applied through
automated network consensus
10. Blockchain: Why was it invented?
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Because “… no mechanism exists to make payments over a communications channel
without a trusted party”
11. Technology Basics
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Public Key Cryptography
1QGGBQEKgxxjqth4Q
Tbiqz1UFpu1pcoTGF
Public Key
Private Key
5Jza1DZn2mBvrmMd
BLVbQjSu33oKCjpk
Vbwo8jX6vEtZBpSs
aEt
Peer-to-Peer Networking Cryptographic hash functions
e3b0c44298fc1c149afbf4c8996fb924
27ae41e4649b934ca495991b7852b855
18. Blockchain Business Benefits
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Efficiency
•Decentralization
•Data Reliability
•Transparency
•Data Protection
•Attestation
•IoT integration
•Collaboration
•Empowered
Consumer
•Cross-Economy
Interoperability
•Cryptographic
Reputation
•Public Transparency
•Business Confidence
•New forms of value
interpretation
•Optimized time to
value
•Continuous and
autonomous markets
Assurance Amplification Serenity Business
Intelligence
•Programmable
Business through Smart
Contracts
•Decentralized
Autonomous
Organizations
•Autonomous and
decentralized value
creation collaboration
platforms
20. Market Trends
Blockchain: Disintermediated style of Hollywood business
Investor
Unions
Writer
Talent
Producer
Director Smart Contract
Voting
Production Distribution
Produce
Crypto currency transactions
Viewers
Contribution
Tokens
Residuals
Order & pay
Pay &
Consume
DAO: Decentralized Autonomous Organization
22. Blockchain Applications
BITCOIN is the first APPLICATION on Blockchain
Many more applications on many more Blockchains are being
developed!
Proof of
Existence
Decentralized IoT Autonomous
Organizations
...
Smart
Contracts
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24. Permissionless vs Permissioned Blockchains
A question of control and trust
Permissionless
Blockchains
Trust is enforced by Cryptographic proof
from the Software Protocol
Permissioned
Blockchains
Trust is enforced through restricted
access to transaction validation
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26. Blockchain Implementation Considerations
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Scalability
•Admission/qualification
of network participants
•Policy definition and
administration
•Data and
interoperability
standards
•Dispute resolution
•Change control
•On chain vs off chain
storage
•Transparency vs
privacy
•Transaction data
encryption
•Data leakage
•Key management
(issuance, revocation)
•Lost/compromised
keys
•Unknown threat
vectors
•Decentralized
Security
•Requirements on
compute, bandwidth
and storage can lead
to centralization
•Viability of different
consensus models
Governance Data Privacy Security Regulatory/
Compliance
•Impact of digital
currency to systemic
risk
•Incorporation of
AML/KYC into digital
payments systems
•Regulator access to
data
•New regulations
required?
28. Node n
Blockchain Functional View
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IaaS / PaaS
Node 2
Client
Software
Platform Foundation
Platform Core Developers
Node 1
Admission
Control
Community
Identity
Node
Software
Dev Software
Consensus
Client
Software
Suggest Change
Draft Change
Vote Change
RequestChange
Release (Fork)
Update
Smart
Contracts
Developers
People Software Hardware
Consensus
Off-chain
Storage
Interfaces
29. Thank you for your time!
Steve Wong, Director of Business Development
Steve.Wong@hpe.com @SteveWongLA
Notes de l'éditeur
Blockchain is the underlying technology platform behind Bitcoin. Bitcoin is a digital currency that permits real-time value transfer between participants. Valid transactions are immediate and irreversible.
It should be made clear however, that Bitcoin and blockchain are two separate things. Bitcoin is the digital currency that is enabled by blockchain, which is a technology platform. As such blockchain can be applied to other business applications.
Blockchain is a Peer-to-peer computer network that shares a Ledger of Valid Network Transactions. It is organized as a chronological chain of valid blocks, where every Network Peer holds a full copy of the same ledger. Therefore every Network Peer holds the same complete Network Transaction History.
Valid Network Transactions are aggregated into logical Blocks. Valid Blocks are chronologically linked together. Invalid Blocks are being discarded.
The great innovation in Blockchain is a Mechanism to reach Network Consensus in a Peer to Peer Network about what Blocks are valid and which ones are not.
The Blockchain provides proof of who owns what at any given time.
Why is traditionally a trusted third party needed in a payment transaction? And the answer is: To enforce trust in a transaction -> meaning: To make sure, that the sender does not spend what the sender does not own: The so called Double Spend problem. And the only way to enforce trust in a transaction (until Blockchain) was through a trusted third party.
Central Transaction Validation Systems enforce trust through restricted access to a transaction validation entity, lets say a Bank.
Under this model, and because of the nature of self-interest, the more people or entities that have access to transaction validation, the greater the risk to the network. Self interest is a threat. Rules for people and entities with access to transaction validation are defined and enforced by regulators.
A Distributed Transaction Validation System uses the opposite model: It is open for everyone to directly send and validate transactions. No trust in a validating third party is needed because trust is enforced through a cryptographic proof mechanism embedded within a software.
Because of game-theoretical incentive-mechanisms, self-interest is the basis of security. For every network participant, it is financially more attractive to play by the rules, meaning correctly validating transactions, than to cheat the system. Distributed Transaction Validation Systems rely on the pursuit of self-interest in order to secure the network, because it is exponentially harder to attack a distributed network the bigger it gets.
Blockchain is the underlying technology platform behind Bitcoin. Bitcoin is a digital currency that permits real-time value transfer between participants. Valid transactions are immediate and irreversible.
It should be made clear however, that Bitcoin and blockchain are two separate things. Bitcoin is the digital currency that is enabled by blockchain, which is a technology platform. As such blockchain can be applied to other business applications.
Blockchain is a Peer-to-peer computer network that shares a Ledger of Valid Network Transactions. It is organized as a chronological chain of valid blocks, where every Network Peer holds a full copy of the same ledger. Therefore every Network Peer holds the same complete Network Transaction History.
Valid Network Transactions are aggregated into logical Blocks. Valid Blocks are chronologically linked together. Invalid Blocks are being discarded.
The great innovation in Blockchain is a Mechanism to reach Network Consensus in a Peer to Peer Network about what Blocks are valid and which ones are not.
The Blockchain provides proof of who owns what at any given time.
At the beginning of Bitcoin, every person who wanted to participate in the network had to operate a network node.
This is different now. Service Providers (so called Exchanges or Wallet Providers) offer these Services so that People who want to join the Network do not have to operate a Network Node any more.
For the purpose of this presentation, lets assume that every Network Participant operates a Network Node.
Every Network Node holds a full copy of the Blockchain. Therefore EVERYBODY knows the transaction history of every bitcoin in circulation. It is like a USD Note where every Person that had the Note in possession had to sign it. The Bitcoin Blockchain provides public accessible proof of who owns what at any given time. The Magazine “economist” called the Bitcoin Blockchain it a 2015 release “the truth machine”.
Bitcoin the Currency was the first Application on the Blockchain.
What could be other applications on the Blockchain?
Because no trust is needed between transacting entities, Permissionless Blockchains enable humans, organizations or things to directely communicate and transact with one another. Therefore any business construct where trust in form of an intermediary is implemented, is a possible application.
In this respect, Permissionless Blockchains are disintermediating technologies that eliminate friction in value exchange over the internet.
Permissionless Blockchains replaces middlemen
Therefore new Business Models, Process and workflows, Self Executing Contracts or even Decentralized Autonomous Organizations are possible Applications.
After Bitcoin, other Blockchains have emerged.
Blockchains can now be classified in Permissioned and Permissionless Blockchains.
The difference between the both is a philosophical one, namely, what person or entity has the right to validate transacions within the network.
Permissioned Blockchains are more like Transaction Validation Networks, where access to Transaction Validation, Insight and Control is limited to Trusted Participants. Trust is enforced by limiting access to the Network. Permissioned Blockchains are currently under development by an Industry & Banking Consortuim in order to improve and speed up internal processes like Clearinghouse or Settlement.
Permissionless Blockchains in contrast are truely open and distributed Transaction Validation Networks. Open means, open for everyone to participate, open for everyone to validate transactions and open to have insight and control over the complete transaction history of the Network. No trusted third parties are needed. Trust is enforced through Cryptography by the Blockchains Software Protocol. Permissionless Blockchains have in common, that they need an Internal Unit of Account, a Network Token to incentivice for transaction verification efforts.