It seems like a safer way to dabble would be to set IPFS up on a VPS hosted somewhere with more favorable laws (OVH, e.g.) - though I suppose you might run into bandwidth limits.
Neither Canada nor France (main data centre locations of OVS) are favorable when it comes to child pornography (for a good reason!). Same for terrorism-related material. We're not talking about copyright breaches only.
You are still the operator, subject to the laws of your jurisdiction.