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I shall share an analogy that I made up myself from my own experience as a lawyer in criminal law. If an importer of illegal drugs in this country lifts the phone to his supplier in Colombia, orders 6 kilograms of the best cocaine and discusses with him how it will come here, he commits a crime in this country. That does not extend our jurisdiction to Colombia; it has implications for that, maybe, in sentencing and other things, but the crime is committed here. The same is true, as we have heard, of the compelled deletion of material after conviction. It would be absurd, verging on Kafkaesque, if we were to see further examples of successful prosecutions, only for the perpetrator to leave the court and have his devices returned, still containing the sexually explicit deepfake images and videos that were the subjects of the trial.