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Umm, good point. I don't have an answer for that. But considering it will cost you about 60c to store a 100 byte payload, I am not sure what copyright infringment material you can put in there. Probably none.

So for now, I will say I don't feel like this is of a concern

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Many illegal numbers can be stored for a trivial amount of money.

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

DeCSS[1] comes to mind, but I think any use of the blockchain to distribute copyrighted material would be more to make a statement than a convenient way of distributing it.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeCSS

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