That's not a traditional form of re-distribution. In legal terms, I guess it's a gray area.
The article is now on the blockchain. It is not published (re-distributed) anywhere in particular. It's also encoded and not in the actual form of an article.
Involving a technically convoluted mechanism doesn't change the fundamental legal question here. It's just made it harder for you to undo your potential violation.
A temporary web mirror has at least a narrow time scope and a justification. Choosing to embed a copy of content you don't own into a permanently-public record is a greater offense.
> Choosing to embed a copy of content you don't own into a permanently-public record is a greater offense.
Anybody making copies of that record, and anybody distributing them, would be (and probably already is) breaking the law.
But then, the one embedding it only broke the law once, by making and distributing one copy of the protected work, same as reposting it on a temporary web mirror. Worse, with a web mirror you make and distribute copies for every requests...
But for better understanding, I would love to hear more about "embed a copy of content you don't own into a permanently-public record is a greater offense". What is this based on? Are there any known precedents?
