That response doesn't engage with the difficult scenario I laid out. To restate: If you want a law-abiding-wouldn't-hurt-a-fly citizen to participate in the blockchain, the citizen must copy the illegal child pornography to his harddrive to satisfy the functionality of the blockchain. The citizen is not "searching for it"; instead, the citizen must have it.
For some extra twists, contemplate one-time-pad encryption.
You can claim that some random set of data on someone's machine is an encrypted child porno video, and provide a "key" that would decrypt it.
Try explaining why that's not real to a clueless judge.
Anyway, i hope the legal system would recognize the difference between having intent to store cp and not having such intent. Otherwise anyone can be made or proven to have stored it.
> Try explaining why that's not real to a clueless judge.
Judges aren't stupid. You can easily explain why the random data isn't something. You can't explain your way out of unencrypted data being objectively there.
> Anyway, i hope the legal system would recognize the difference between having intent to store cp and not having such intent.
If you know how blockchains work, then it is intentional.
> Otherwise anyone can be made or proven to have stored it.
Right, but just because its there doesn't mean its really there. If someone embeds a video in the blockchain, most people wouldn't see it unless they specifically went looking for what block number it is in, and then got a program to copy data out of the blockchain and into a video file, and then ran it with a video player. That fits my definition of searching for it.
Child porn possession, unlike most crimes, is intentless.
Even if someone has no knowledge of, or intent related to, the possession of child porn, it's still illegal.
A person who downloads that video unknowingly via the blockchain is probably morally in the clear, however they're very much not in the clear with the law.
Given that technology requires users, and users are bound by these "pesky" things called laws, I think that it is definitely a problem with the technology if the blockchain (or other system) can be so poisoned that all users of it would be rendered criminals.
Most people already have no clue what they have on their machines. And no clue how to find stuff. I mean, consider how images can be embedded in other images through steganography.
I guess it's a great opportunity to roll back thought crime that you perform with your eyes. You're already in possession of things illegal in China, North Korea, etc. Less meta-crime enforcement, more real crime enforcement.
That response doesn't engage with the difficult scenario I laid out. To restate: If you want a law-abiding-wouldn't-hurt-a-fly citizen to participate in the blockchain, the citizen must copy the illegal child pornography to his harddrive to satisfy the functionality of the blockchain. The citizen is not "searching for it"; instead, the citizen must have it.