tony@lemmy.hoyle.me.uktoToday I Learned@lemmy.world•TIL Children as young as eight can and have been put on the sex offender registry, which lasts the rest of their lives.English
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1 year agoThere are things called strict liability offences, for which intent is not required to prove guilt.
Possession of CSAM is one of those, although I’m not sure about the US (most other countries it is).
Laserdiscs were huge for being able to stop on a single frame - I worked for a place that used them for language teaching, so you had to stop dead on a sentence for it to make sense. At the time mpeg could only stop on iframes that could be 10 seconds apart, and paying to get iframes mastered where you needed them was mucho expensive (even decoding required hardware… mpeg encoding in software was a pipe dream).
Compressed video still has this problem to some extent but it’s mostly worked around in software.
Also the hardware to interface to a PC was basically a simple analogue capture card and a serial link for the control. Cheap, at least compared to the mpeg decoders of the day.