Magnet-hashes for all torrents on The Pirate Bay: 164 MB
This gets very meta very quickly.<p>If linking to copyrighted data 'should' be illegal (SOPA), then what about descriptions of that data that are sufficient to identify the original, but not reconstruct it (magnet links)?<p>And if <i>those</i> were made illegal, then what about descriptions of those descriptions? You can recurse infinitely on this.<p>Beyond mere amusement, after just one or two recursions, you get to the point where it would be difficult to write a law that would criminalize magnet links without also criminalizing people who link to a Sparknotes-like summary or commentary for a piece of media.