That’s true but when you host a website, you can decide what types of files can be uploaded. With this sort of decentralized storage network, people will include whatever files they want. And to put a finer point on it, no doubt some significant portion of the file content will be horrifying video content, some of which will be illegal. My question is more around the liability for that, even if it is encrypted and the miner doesn’t know what it is.

A small filecoin operation would not have the legal funds to defend against an aggressive prosecutor trying to “take down a network of dangerous pornographers” and would get little sympathy from a general public that doesn’t understand the tech.

Until there is strong legal precedent, I wouldn’t entertain a mining operation. Maybe I’m paranoid but it just doesn’t seem worth the risk.