Its always been intent. If you pay with counterfeit bills but didn’t realize because you got them from the shop that gave you change, you didn’t intend to do fraud.
The use of the software after installation conveys criminal intent. IANAL. How could you use the software in a home environment without criminal intent?
But they did mean to take pictures of minors in the privacy of their bedrooms in the name of stopping petty theft which I’m doubtful would have occurred on any meaningful scale in the first place. Whether they meant it “criminally” seems immaterial here. I think they got off exceptionally light, and it’s a travesty of justice. You won’t convince me otherwise.
I feel very sure we have prisons full of people who didn’t mean to do whatever they did to be there.
Its always been intent. If you pay with counterfeit bills but didn’t realize because you got them from the shop that gave you change, you didn’t intend to do fraud.
Intent matters, always has.
Of course, but in this case, their intent was to spy on children.
The use of the software after installation conveys criminal intent. IANAL. How could you use the software in a home environment without criminal intent?
Yes
But they did mean to take pictures of minors in the privacy of their bedrooms in the name of stopping petty theft which I’m doubtful would have occurred on any meaningful scale in the first place. Whether they meant it “criminally” seems immaterial here. I think they got off exceptionally light, and it’s a travesty of justice. You won’t convince me otherwise.
I feel very sure we have prisons full of people who didn’t mean to do whatever they did to be there.