That's irrelevant, but I welcome anyone who disagrees to hire legal counsel and have them publish an actual legal opinion. I'm not interested in the opinion of folks LARPing as lawyers.
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I don't give a fuck about the law, I don't want VLC playable contiguous bytes on my goddamn server. You aren't arguing on twitter here Lopp, people know shit here. You think nerds can't see through your perverse incentive bullshit?
Oh good, then we agree it's not an actual threat.
I have bad news for you, however: Bitcoin doesn't care about your feelings.
Yeah, that's why I use implementations that don't pass along your smut. Also, why does it even matter Citrea uses fake keys for your Rollup Vitalik wannabe bullshit, OP_RETURN doesn't even affect your bottom line. (Unless you are a fed that is)
You're coping with ridiculous pretzel logic. Your node will still download and share said smut after it arrives in a block. Even if you run Knots.
Then I and others will expose the Miner responsible for distributing CSAM. Irreparable reputational damage. You are the pretzel here, filters don't work, that's why you have to disable them on the policy level... Yeah, real sound logic there.
Go for it.
Bitcoin as a system doesn't give a shit about reputation, it pays whoever mints a valid block.
Damn, that Ivory tower really detatches people from reality. People are still made of flesh. A reputation of what you're describing, you would be far more paranoid than you already are. Bitcoin is only money not a force-field.
state secrets and illegal pictures are already embedded in the blockchain using much older protocols like stamps. the data is unprunable. no matter which node software you use to synchronize you are already dirtying your hands with this stuff and you can't prevent it.
there are probably illegal samples of data embedded in the trading history of low volume penny stocks on the stock market. it's not possible to prevent people from embedding and propagating arbitrary data in a public append-only database system. you are trying to have your cake and eat it too. if you are so disturbed by the possibility, you need to put bitcoin down and find a different computer hobby. you clearly don't understand how any of this stuff works.
Did you not read the first comment? Contiguous data is different. You should put nostr down, you clearly can't read.
>contiguous data is different
Since you won't read my citation anyway I'll just suffice it to say, take your favorite CSAM, that I'm sure you have, convert the MP4 to bytes and then have a program like VLC read it. Then chop the file into several chunks with OP code identifiers, data signal and length bytes and see if VLC does the same thing. Later tard.
did you actually suggest illegal files become legal when they are segmented
Are you really unable to read, I was kind of joking but I think you may need help.
A quote from me, literally in this thread: "I don't give a fuck about the law"
I hope you are able to read this 🙏
There is a distinction here: whether it is fragmented or whole. Legally whole likely makes you more complicit than fragmented. I doubt it’ll stand up in court, but the case could be made. And that’s a risk. Surprised core does not wargame these types of scenarios with their updates …
Bitcoin doesn't care about your feelings, too.
Or your conflicts of interest with citrea.
It is a threat though and it’s odd that you wouldn’t know it. Having your data directly visible vs fragmented is flying it close to the sun legally speaking. You could argue you didn’t know about it - but all that it takes to negate this is someone tweeting then going CP in an op return. At least fragmenting gives you some plausible deniability regarding the “knowing” aspect.
Again, disingenuous. Bitcoin doesn't care about any of our feelings, but you just said you care about lawyers feelings.
Legally you’re probably right - even data in chunks can be turned into a visual. But why would you want to make it easier for anyone to abuse?