About a year after the internet court opened, a case involving online copyright infringement was brought before it. The plaintiff in the case was reportedly tech-savvy enough to capture the violating websites and their source code, and then upload that data to Factom's blockchain platform, creating an immutable record of the copyright infringement.
In this case, the court ruled that:
"On the premise that the technical verification is consistent and other evidence can be mutually verified, such electronic data can be used as evidence for the infringement in the case."
And now, China's supreme court has backed that decision, declaring that as of Friday, September 7, evidence stored and verified on blockchain platforms can be used in legal disputes.
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