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Re:Fake celebrity porn is blowing up on Reddit, thanks to ar... by PeterisP on Wednesday January 24, 2018 @07:07PM (#16227560)
Courts will use the best evidence available for a particular case, including all kinds of things that obviously can be less than perfectly reliable. Physical photographs have been doctored (or staged) for more than a century, and that doesn't mean that photos as such are inadmissible as evidence; so the fact that the process for taking video wasn't especially tamper-proof won't by itself be sufficient to disqualify it.

If a video is available and doesn't contain a pre-published key then the courts will still want to use it as useful evidence instead of simply ignoring it - sure, the opponent might have a slightly easier time attempting to contest that evidence as possibly doctored (just as they can do now), but courts will still make a judgement for each individual case.

Re:Fake celebrity porn is blowing up on Reddit, thanks to ar... by smallnamespace on Wednesday January 24, 2018 @08:25PM (#16228024)
Atoms are harder to move around then bits, and the rapid development in our ability to generate convincing video means that it will be hard to predict what sort of evidence we can generate now that will be convincing in the future.