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by JoeAltmaier 4325 days ago
An unregulated/unregulatable space. Might as well try to regulate math - "PI is 3"
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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.
> 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.

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.
You probably have it on your computer already, if someone publishes interesting enough instructions for "retrieving" it.
Pi is a number. A picture is also a number (a very long one, just like any other file), including CP.
By that logic you could make anything illegal, legal.