Blockchain-Based Music Wallet for Copyright Protection in Audio Files: Blockchain-Based Music Wallet for Copyright Protection in Audio Files

Abstract

The works produced within the music industry arepresented to their listeners on a digital platform,taking advantage of technology. The problems of thepast, such as pirated cassettes and CDs, have left theirplace to the problem of copyright protection on digitalplatforms today. Block chain is one of the mostreliable and preferred technologies in recent timesregarding data integrity and data security. In thisstudy, a blockzincir-based music wallet model isproposed for safe and legal listening of audio files.The user's selected audio files are converted intoblock chain structure using different techniques andalgorithms and are kept securely in the user's musicwallet. In the study, performance comparisons aremade with the proposed model application in terms ofthe length of time an ordinary audio player can addnew audio files to the list and the response times ofthe user. The findings suggest that the proposedmodel implementation has acceptable differences inperformance with an ordinary audio player.