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Streaming CSAM Possession

The legal question of whether streaming child sexual abuse material without saving a file constitutes possession, with ongoing appeals and debates in the courts.

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How have federal appeals courts ruled on whether streamed CSAM without saved files counts as possession?

Federal appeals courts have not produced a uniform, definitive rule that streaming child sexual abuse material (CSAM) without saving a file always constitutes “possession”; lower courts and commentato...