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"What If Linus Torvalds Gets Hit by a Bus?” is now permanently archived on: https://setinblock.com/0x8006d703a45663cab96a85a4ef3e6ab94a1410d6e70119139eea807a63

"What If Linus Torvalds Gets Hit by a Bus?” is now permanently archived on: https://setinblock.com/0x8006d703a45663cab96a85a4ef3e6ab94a1410d6e70119139eea807a63ecb79e https://setinblock.com/0x8006d703a45663cab96a85a4ef3e6ab94a1...

JeremyBanks 8y ago
Do you have a license to permanently redistribute it?
- giekaton 8y ago
  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.
  - JeremyBanks 8y ago
    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.
    - giekaton 8y ago
      I wonder where exactly do you see the violation? Is it that I archived it on the blockchain, or that I shared a reader link to that transaction where the article is archived?
      - thecatspaw 8y ago
        > Crummy is © 1996-2018 Leonard Richardson. Unless otherwise noted, all text licensed under a Creative Commons License. You're fine. I would not recommend doing this with texts which you dont have the copyright to.
        giekaton 8y ago
        Yes, I also saw this later. 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?
    - palunon 8y ago
      > 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...
dana321 8y ago
Haha thats great!

JeremyBanks 8y ago

Do you have a license to permanently redistribute it?

giekaton 8y ago
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.
- JeremyBanks 8y ago
  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.
  - giekaton 8y ago
    I wonder where exactly do you see the violation? Is it that I archived it on the blockchain, or that I shared a reader link to that transaction where the article is archived?
    - thecatspaw 8y ago
      > Crummy is © 1996-2018 Leonard Richardson. Unless otherwise noted, all text licensed under a Creative Commons License. You're fine. I would not recommend doing this with texts which you dont have the copyright to.
      - giekaton 8y ago
        Yes, I also saw this later. 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?
  - palunon 8y ago
    > 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...

dana321 8y ago

Haha thats great!