When pertaining to sexual exploitation and other abuses of children: “includes undeveloped film and videotape, data stored on computer disk or by electronic means which is capable of conversion into a visual image, and data which is capable of conversion into a visual image that has been transmitted by any means, whether or not stored in a permanent format”. (U.S. Code: Title 18, Part I, Chapter 110, Section 2256) (Publication 114-38)
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