[the_mitsuhiko]

So a lawless space? What if a judge wants the data to be removed?

[oleganza]

If the judge is really determined to put you in jail he will find CP, cocaine and unpaid taxes everywhere in your life. Law operates beyond logic and reason: only authoritative opinions and scripture interpretations matter. Ask that question to those who will put handcuffs on you, not to fellow peaceful citizens.

[lastcanal]

Then they'd need some very powerful mining equipment! Bitcoin uses merkel trees to ensure transactions in blocks never change.

[JoeAltmaier]

An unregulated/unregulatable space. Might as well try to regulate math - "PI is 3"

[the_mitsuhiko]

How is that related? If someone puts CP intentionally into the block chain that has nothing to do with math. The spread of child pornography is a criminal offense and they could just force every miner to split the chain or charge them for spread of CP.

[Theyeard]

> By that logic you could make anything illegal, legal.

I'm not a lawyer but from a technical point of view it's almost impossible to remove any kind of data from a truly distributed network. Be it Bitcoin's Blockchain, BitTorrent or the internet itself. That's just a fact, no judge order will change it, sorry.

And as M4v3R said it'd be very expensive to add a big file like a picture to Blockchain anyway.

[JoeAltmaier]

Its pissing into the wind to try to regulate some things. Like trying to teach a pig to sing? Doesn't work, and annoys the pig.

[sp332]

You probably have it on your computer already, if someone publishes interesting enough instructions for "retrieving" it.

[Theyeard]

Pi is a number. A picture is also a number (a very long one, just like any other file), including CP.

[the_mitsuhiko]

By that logic you could make anything illegal, legal.