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The magnet link is basically a hash of a bunch of hashes of copyrighted content.

If distributing that is wrong, is it okay to distribute a hash of many hashes that are all each hashes of hashes of copyrighted content? (The magnet link to a list of magnet links) Suppose I merely mention the name that you can google to find the hash of many hashes of hashes of copyrighted content? I wonder how many layers do we have to add before everyone admits that the situation is absurd?

Relevant: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_number

It's not clear that the proxy is being sued for copyright infringement. It might be for "aiding and abetting". After all, driving a car is not illegal, but driving a getaway car for a bank robber is. Or it might even be a civil case in which they claim damages.

So reword 'number' as 'ID'. Sure, you can't get around content being content by reframing it as a number. But this number is not content. It is solely an identifier. They are trying to make it illegal to mention the ID code of files.