2012-05-10, 04:34 AM
Exidous Wrote:I'm not implying anything about the quantity (or for that matter, definition) of CP necessary to violate the law, that's statutory.
Not everyone knowing something is a pretty crappy reason not to enforce a law.
It's not guilty until proven innocent, the law says you can't possess it. You either do or you don't possess something. You can possess something and not KNOW you do, and I don't think that should absolve someone of guilt for the reasons I described. The problem I'm pointing out with this decision is that it calls into question what counts as possession beyond the point of it being a useful legal concept for any kind of enforcement.
The idea that all you have to do is store your CP in your cache to be safe is what's damning here.
Allow me to direct you to a post that was made earlier in the thread;
happylight Wrote:It's a good decision. If some random bot came in here and posted CP and you clicked the thread before a mod could delete it, you wouldn't want to be found guilty of in possession of CP would you?
It's great and all that you have such a strong standpoint on the matter, but what if you're the one caught in that situation? Would you be so happy that possession of it PERIOD lands you a jail cell? I don't think so. Quit acting as though every person out there with one wrong click of the mouse is a damn criminal.