Information is one of the most valuable commodities in the world, Bitcoin is information transmuted into money. If you want information to be free, give it a free market.
BitVM and ZeroSync developer Robin Linus unveils BitStream, a trustless protocol for data transfers. Further new protocols show a budding use-case for Bitcoin in data markets.
A recent anonymous proposal specifies a system using timelocked Bitcoin transactions and chaumian ecash mints to create an economic incentive for BitTorrent users to seed files.