The law would apply whether you are aware or not of the nature of the content you are storing IF you have "reasonable indication that what you store can indeed be unlawful". If you participate in such a "ring", so to speak, you cannot pretend ignorance as to what logically will be one of the main uses, if not the main use of such network. The main point is that you are willingly participating in a network that expressly facilitates the distribution of such materials. Now if you want to believe that it will be above the law and therefore you cannot be held accountable, you choose that assumption much the same way you choose to assume that driving at 90 mph in a 60 zone won't result in consequences.
In answering you last question, it is in the GEMS OP. And no, it isn't integration, it's leasing the STORJ network.
"The main point is that you are willingly participating in a network that expressly facilitates the distribution of such materials."
Can you please support this statement with some sort of legal brief or existing court case? We have existing legal precedent in Tor as brandoff stated.
I know some of Tor guys, so if you want to PM me your email perhaps we could ask the guys who actually deal with this on a daily basis.
The short answer is no. A longer answer would be I am going by common sense and law enforcement doing their duty. The actions and declared intentions of LE are very clear of late and a sharp forecast of the future, no matter how it will end that being framed. It is a "business" you don't want to be in, period. And if you are going to facilitate such endeavors providing a distribution network, you HAVE TO, by law, enact procedures to prevent the traffic and distribution of such materials, whether there's precedent or you are willing to be the one setting it. We cannot logically pretend that we are offering a network of anonymous storage and distribution to safeguard the privacy of the customers, without contemplating obvious, evident, inevitable collateral activities that the law will pursue diligently and expeditiously. I know the legal machinery of Ethereum is considering all the [potential options, but other than that, it seems to me that everyone, including Stork, is acting quite irresponsibly and heading towards Silk Road 3.