This is a risky practice since your government (any government) can claim your pc is housing illegal info on the files that were sent to you.
Sigh, if you are not informed on the project, and won't spend a few minutes to research, pleased DON'T comment. By that logic, mining on, or running a node on any blockchain would be subject to that. Are people running Helium Hotspots at risk for what's riding the IoT network? Are cellular compaines at risk for what conversations take place on the cell phones? What about distributed storage, and cloud solutions like SIA, Flux?
You likely won't receive the render files in unencrypted form, or have any knowledge what's being processed. Work will be distributed to multiple nodes in redundancy and no one node will have the entire set. Please stop making arbitrary assumptions, and do some research before responding.
yes or not yes. any time you receive anonymous packets willing ignorer to process them your gear is subject to seizure if your gear can store the packet.
if your gear only relays the file and does not store it the justification is much harder to prove.
So if you have a pc with lots of storage rendering a set of random files if it is capable of copying the files and storing them you are subject to search and seizure.
Does not mean they will.
but they can.
Ie a rasp pi with a small micro sd = why bother
a 5000 usd i7 12700k pc with a pair of 3090ti's and a few 4tb nvme.2
yeah they (any gov) could. since you can copy all info they render service sends to you if you want.