"... the drug cartels in South America are beginning to move towards counterfeit consumer goods because it is more lucrative, and there is no need for bribes or fast boats or planes." -Hans Schwab, The Economist-
Simply put, StopTheFakes is an easy-to-use and affordable Blockchain service for everyone to track and record instances of illegal use of logos, trademarks or other intellectual property and take immediate action to remedy the infringement.
Situation encountered by some industries
According to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, the counterfeiting market is worth more than $461 billion, and the International Chamber of Commerce estimates that it will reach $2.81 trillion by 2022.
What is currently the case, piracy and/or counterfeiting activities cause effects in most markets and industries, where you can clearly see the harmful result it has on them. for example:
- According to the World Health Organization, up to 60% of pharmaceuticals are counterfeit. The counterfeit pharmaceutical industry is estimated at $200 billion a year.
The StopTheFakes Solution
By creating not only an operating system, but also a new market sector that would take intellectual property rights protection to a new level.
The use of Blockchain technology based on Ethereum guarantees the inalterability, authenticity and integrity of the infringements detected by the Users, as well as compliance with the rules by all users of the service. allowing the detection of infringers of intellectual property rights, producers and distributors of counterfeit and pirated goods anywhere in the world.
The use of the Interplanetary File System (IPFS) will allow large amounts of data to be stored decentrally and independently.
How It Works:
The Applicant creates an Application by specifying its search query that may include a logo, trademark, signature style elements, etc. The Maker's task is to find this information.
The petitioner adds as much information as possible (what type of infractions you are interested in, countries, cities, etc.).
The Request for Review (if necessary, the Moderator may request and/or recommend confirmation of the data placed on the request). the Moderator's work is carried out in the background and remains invisible to other users.
When ready, the request immediately goes into the request catalog and becomes visible to users.
The Applicant can indicate the desired number of Alerts by transferring the corresponding amount to the account.
Who will benefit?
StopTheFakes apunta a beneficiar a todos los individuos que necesiten de sus servicios, como lo podrían ser:
- Titulares de derechos de propiedad intelectual
- Productores y minoristas, propietarios de marcas
- Propietarios de franquicias
- Productoras de la industria del cine
- Desarrolladores y editores de juegos de ordenador
- Músicos y sellos musicales
- Titulares independientes de los derechos
- Consumidores
Producto: StopTheFakes App
This App is being developed for use on all popular mobile devices and can be downloaded from official repositories and services. Its functionality includes:
- Fotografía y grabación de vídeo
- Registro de fecha y hora
- Almacenamiento, procesamiento y transferencia de datos
- Sistema de notificación
- Identificación de datos geográficos
- Generación de alertas que incluyan de 3 a 10 fotografías, vídeo, texto u otros datos
TOKEN & ICO
Symbol: STFCoin
Start date: 21 March 2018
Closure date: 21 April 2018
Number of cards available: 20.271.000 STFCoin
Minimum Collection: 1,671,000
Accepted currency: ETH, BTC
Symbolic exchange rate: 1 ETH = 2400 STF
Minimum transaction amount in Ethereum: 0.1 ETH
Minimum transaction amount in Bitcoin: BTC 0.01
Use of Funds:
ROADMAP
June 2016 The idea of the StopTheFakes project
September 2016 Service Concept Training
December 2016 Analysis of copyright protection
April 2017 Sales team for building specifications and development of the block chain
May 2017 Negotiation of conditions of use of the service with potential applicants
July 2017 Development of the official website for the sale of cards based on IEC-20
September 2017 Launch of the website for distributing cards
November 2017 Community development, with the participation of experts, disseminating the idea
December 2017 Prototype launch service
January 2018 Launch of the mobile application prototype
January 2018 Token Sales Promotion Phase
February 2018 Alpha v. Service launch 0.1, its testing and purification
March 2018 Main sales phase of cards
March 2018 Main development stage
April 2018 Sending of form to the stock exchange. Start of the bidding process
April 2018 Launch of the Android application available for download
May 2018 Launch of Google Chrome and Opera extensions
May 2018 Security audit. Vulnerability Scanning
June 2018 Launch of the service, reaching the first 5,000 detections of copyright infringement.
June 2018 IOS application release available for download
July 2018 Mozilla Firefox add-on released
August 2018 Engage in close collaboration with major producers. Signing of the agreement
September 2018 Reaching a number of users of 850 000 and a total of 40 000 infringements detected.
June 2019 Large Data Implementation. Expand the range of services for applicants
August 2019 Hearing building. A total of 400,000 copyright infringements detected
StopTheFakes Team
Mikhail Krzhanovsky - Co-founder / Executive Director - CEO
Igor Salikov - Co-founder/Director of Operations - COO
Aleksandr Suvorov - Director of Business Development - CBDO
Dmitry Kostachev - Chief Technology Officer - CTO
Aleksey Zhunin - Backend Leader, Blockchain Developer - LBD
Olga Belyakova - Marketing Director
Roman Kapralov - Complete Battery Developer
Roman Rulkov - Front-end Developer
Eugene Savochkin - Web Application Developer
Maria Dvoryanchikova - Director of Communications
Svetlana Ustinova - Leading Designer
Maksim Kononenko - Social Media Community Manager
Aleksei? arkov - Database developer
Advisors:
Reuben Godfrey
Mikhail Gorshkov
Ismael Arribas
Alexander Nekipelov
Igor Slabykh
Elia Planas Gabriel
Vladimir Sokolov
Yevgeni Okhotsky
Andrey Zolin
Links of Interest:
Website: https://stopthefakes.io/
Medium: https://medium.com/@stopthefakes
Whitepaper: https://stopthefakes.io/docs/WP_En.pdf
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/www.stopthefakes.io/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/StopTheFakes_io
Telegram: https://t.me/stopthefakes
Reddit: https://reddit.com/r/stopthefakes
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrfc7uq-iOebzTeFE2YPqHw
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