instrumentality

A copyright banner isn't even a mere instrumentality because copyright law already protects the ROM; the banner is redundant.

Courts are not obliged to accept carefully worded definitions when the technology involved is a mere instrumentality.

Actually, all of Cordwainer Smith is worth a read, but stories set in The Instrumentality of Mankind certainly are.

If I were judging this case, I'd call a car an inherently dangerous instrumentality and hold drivers strictly liable.

The 1956 movie Forbidden Planet had a computer system with no instrumentality.

As the Apollo program, smallpox eradication, and many many others show, there is no single better instrumentality for efficiently carrying out great tasks than governments.

Money is quite useful but is ultimately an instrumentality.

The fake moustache is just an instrumentality.

This isn't human instrumentality, it's just capitalism.

(Hey Google, I'm available to fix all your shit and complete your instrumentality plans.

That is, the password or encryption key is part of the tool used to commit the crime, so it is part of the instrumentality of crime and can properly be obtained in a search warrant.

We don't create political processes in order to give everyone an opportunity in political processes; democracy is merely a mechanism, or an instrumentality, that we use in pursuit of more fundamental goals.

A medium: "a means or instrumentality for storing or communicating information." Money enables the storage and communication of information about exchanges, as posited by your example.

I'm kind of concerned about "mere instrumentality" being said by some prosecutor at some point in the future, here.

There would probably be an argument about "instrumentality", and the US person sitting in the US would be in an exceptionally uncomfortable position.

If they can argue something like a copyright banner in a ROM is "a mere instrumentality", there's no reason the defense side shouldn't be able to argue giving calling information to a cell provider, or mail headers to a mail server, aren't essentially the same instrumentalities.