Further, scripts could be used to report video play statistics to the scrape site. Drawback is users would have to add the script to their own site, but adding analytics scripts is common practice.
Further, scripts could be used to report video play statistics to the scrape site. Drawback is users would have to add the script to their own site, but adding analytics scripts is common practice.
And now you've re-created the "Amazon 1-star ratings left by competitors instead of real buyers" and/or the "false DMCA takedown claims of public domain or original music".
E.g. an honest person creates a "How to sew a mask at home to protect from COVID" which is the real content but a bunch of coronavirus deniers falsely flag that video as "child pornography".
Game theory is hard and everybody has to think through all the future chess moves that adversaries will use.
And who would flag the bad users?
This just increases slightly the discomfort of bad guys, but does not prevent it at all. Instead they will flag competitive videos and such.
Nobody has solved "decentralized trust" yet, if ever.