There are legitimate purposes for escrowing it on the Isle of Man over and above keeping it out of a court's hands. The key is to have _some_ leg to stand on when asked "if not trying to thwart the authority of this court, why did you do that." Good answers might sound like: "I wanted the proceeds of the manuscripts sale protected in trust for my grandchildren." "I wanted the negotiations to be handled by the same attorney that manages my spendthrift trust" (You do have one, right?) "I wanted to publish it anonymously, and needed a good attorney in a jurisdiction with strong confidentiality statutes to accomplish that end. I had no idea that the irrevocable trust was so far reaching that it would deny access to a legitimate judicial proceeding, your honor..." I'm not sure there are many arguments for using freenet other than "I knew you pigs were going to try and grab it so I sent it far, far away."
Some reasonable legal advice on the c'punk list! Amazing! M. Unicorn, I could sugest a few valid reasons for posting it on freenet: "Your honor, freenet is a system which backs up data on multiple servers. I thought the document was extremely important, and that was the most reasonable way I could find to ensure that it is not lost." "Your honor, this document describes the situation in Tibet/democracy in Taiwan/Falun Gong, and I wanted to make it available to the citizens of China, and Freenet seemed like the most reasonable way." "I wanted to publish it. Freenet is an alternative to using a more expensive or difficult web server." Would some of these be convincing to a judge? Btw, if the defendant had any reason to believe that the document might soon be the subject of a court proceeding, and he then placed it out of his control in a trust, he would be in just as much trouble as if he had used any c'punk methods. It would be called a "fradulent conveyance", right?