The thing is, anybody could just use a crawler and get the data directly from HN. Downloading the bittorrent is just a shortcut.
Since you published your comments here, I think they are free for everyone to consume. Now to republish them somewhere else is a different matter. I guess publishing a torrent could be counted as republishing the data, but what would be the point in refusing it? The publisher is not making any money from it.
Since you published your comments here, I think they are free for everyone to consume. Now to republish them somewhere else is a different matter. I guess publishing a torrent could be counted as republishing the data, but what would be the point in refusing it? The publisher is not making any money from it.