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ok, this is weird
Jan. 11th, 2003 12:44 pm"Who star link to paedophile probe"
Pete Townshend is a fucking oddball, who in his prime I think enjoyed being provocative. But this stuff, who knows (I don't think whatever he did here would in any way be related to trying to yank people's chains).
The laws with kiddie porn, in the U.S. at least, are kind of curious - from what I have read of them anyway. You just can't have the shit on your computer at all, even if you were trying to indulge some innocent curiousity, or doing independent research or whatever. Or so I hear:
"Possession of child porn is a strict-liability offense, like possession of cocaine. Possessing it, though, does not only mean you have intentionally downloaded and stored the images on your hard drive. Under Title 18 of the US Code, the felony is committed the first time sexually explicit images of minors — defined as anyone under 18 — appear on your screen. If your computer is searched, even files that have been dragged to the trash or cached by your browser software are counted as evidence. Some offenders have been sent to jail for "possessing" images that only a computer-forensics technician can see."
Pete Townshend is a fucking oddball, who in his prime I think enjoyed being provocative. But this stuff, who knows (I don't think whatever he did here would in any way be related to trying to yank people's chains).
The laws with kiddie porn, in the U.S. at least, are kind of curious - from what I have read of them anyway. You just can't have the shit on your computer at all, even if you were trying to indulge some innocent curiousity, or doing independent research or whatever. Or so I hear:
"Possession of child porn is a strict-liability offense, like possession of cocaine. Possessing it, though, does not only mean you have intentionally downloaded and stored the images on your hard drive. Under Title 18 of the US Code, the felony is committed the first time sexually explicit images of minors — defined as anyone under 18 — appear on your screen. If your computer is searched, even files that have been dragged to the trash or cached by your browser software are counted as evidence. Some offenders have been sent to jail for "possessing" images that only a computer-forensics technician can see."
