But as a person running a full unpruned node I do not want to be charged with distributing
illegal data.
Such illegal data already embedded into Bitcoin blockchain far before Ordinals exist. We better hope government keep being
sensible, since you can't access such data without additional software which enable parsing, listing and searching such data.
Seems to me that people who wish to leverage the Bitcoin blockchain for various pet data projects would/could/should just peg out to a dedicated sidechain. Unlike in earlier days (back before the earth stopped cooling) such technologies have been developed, and are working pretty well as best I can see.
Seems to me that a dedicated sidechain would be a better choice than the Bitcoin blockchain since it wouldn't be being spammed by BTC transactions and there is a lot of unrelated cruft which could be left behind.
At first blush, somehow 'needing' to crud up the BTC blockchain seems more like an attack than a legitimate solution to a real problem. Where is my thinking wrong here?
Sidechain and other L2 already exist far before Ordinals created. But almost no one use it despite both Liquid network and Rootstock have smart contract capability and developer behind it promote it support NFT/token. I also have seen Ordinals supporters say they only want to use Ordinals since their arbitrary data guaranteed to be immutable.