From DBWiki
If a seller becomes a problem, they are heavily penalized in the form of fines and operational restrictions if they are found to be guilty of attempting to rip off a buyer. There are two ways that a seller may attempt to cheat a buyer:
- Uploading a corrupted file to you.
- Giving you an invalid decryption key for the digital work you purchased.
The first method will be caught after a few complaints have been filed against the seller. If the seller is found guilty of attempting to rip buyers off, each buyer that had filed a complaint will get a free download of the file they wanted to buy from Bitmunk. If the seller continues to misbehave on Bitmunk, they will be ejected from the network and may even face criminal prosecution.
The second method is very difficult to do because all software running on Bitmunk is validated against a suite of tests to ensure that it operates in a safe and secure manner. If rogue software is found to be operating on the network attempting to cheat buyers, it will be blocked and shutdown.
