Szabo has a degree in computer science and a degree in law. He says: "illegal content in a contiguous standard format, thus readily viewable by standard software, is more likely to impress lawyers, judges, and jurors, and thus is legally more risky, than data that has been broken up or hidden and thus requires specialized software to reconstruct. Such demos would be part of convincing these legal decision-makers that a defendant node operator had knowledge of the content." And remember, this issue is not 100% technical and cannot be fully understood using technical arguments only.

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jb55 _@jb55.com 2 months ago
he is wrong, my post above shows that its just as easy to extract data from non-contiguous sequences. the "readily viewable by standard software" is my one liner above. it doesn't require specialized software.