Describe the solution

Our solution combines web crawlers, deep web crawlers, a distributed ledger 
technology and machine learning to address the issue on media piracy. 
The ledger contributors are mainly the owners of the copyrighted content. 
According to their necessity, they can contribute a node to our blockchain 
and withdraw the node from the blockchain network. The crawler searches the 
internet for any similar content or link to the content whose information has 
been immutably stored on the blockchain. If found, the information is indexed 
to our system. It sends out a notification to the copyright content owner, who 
then verifies it and approves forwarding the crawled information to law enforcement 
or any other agency responsible for taking down the content. Existing solutions 
utilize crawlers just like our system. The novel approach we have taken is the 
employment of distributed ledger, which remove intermediaries, i.e., the system 
does not involve anyone else in the process other than the copyright owner. 
In our case, the content owner can be a part of the blockchain system and contribute 
to it. Law enforcement agencies and other agencies that can contribute by facilitating 
content removal are also part of our blockchain ecosystem. Another key difference 
is that the existing service providers crawl the web only for the content they have 
been tasked to find on a contract basis. Our system lets the stakeholders manage the 
content database that they do not want to be infringed. During the prototype phase, 
a web crawler and a distributed blockchain ledger based on Hyperledger Fabric can be 
set up with the facility to search for content that the crawler has found and suspects 
of being infringed.