[65375] in Cypherpunks
Thoughts about Morph Escrow Crimes
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (jbugden@smtplink.alis.ca)
Fri Sep 13 10:32:12 1996
From: jbugden@smtplink.alis.ca
Date: Fri, 13 Sep 96 10:04:13 EST
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
tcmay@got.net (Timothy C. May) wrote:
>As the law cannot tell if an image of prurient interest started out as a
legal image of Raquel Welch or Jennifer Aniston, or started out as an
illegal image of a minor child, morph escrow will force all image
possessors and distributors to produce proof that the image started out leg=
al.
It is not hard to imagine a future where computer modelling has reached the
stage that a real picture is not required. An obvious extension of this is a
film with computer generated actors.
Now, consider this scenario:
1) The computer generated image is "indistinguishable" from reality.
2) The computer generated image depicts something considered obscene or ill=
egal
under present laws (e.g. pedophilia).
At some point in the future it would seem possible that the computer genera=
ted
image will be treated as a real image under the law (and evaluated accordin=
gly)
because it is indistinguishable from a real image.
Or perhaps we will take the other tack and simply say: What is truth?
I'm not quite ready to wash my hands on this issue.
James
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