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RE: Quora Onboading Initiative | Question Answered: When we upload our original pictures to Steem, how does the blockchain protect the intellectual property?
With enough RCs, we could probably store the encoded image in the post. We use similar techniques to embed small images in HTML and CSS pages. Mind you, given that it's a social requirement that posts have an image, I wonder if image storage should become a blockchain primitive. Right now, images are hosted externally and so we risk losing photos should the image hosts go down.
What you're saying is true. But I think why no primitives were provided for storing images encoded as text is that images take up a lot of space.