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Oliver Broadway <ollie@improv.demon.co.uk> wrote:

> So does that mean that if someone posts a picture which falls within the
> definition of illegal pornography to a newsgroup which I read, and I
> download it without realising what it is (which has happened in the past,
> although I don't download any articles with a subject line which suggests
> that they are binaries of any sort, including pornographic pictures), I'm
> breaking the law by having it stored on my computer, even if I delete it
> as soon as I realise what it is?

I very much doubt it, to be honest. 1, you had no idea you were likely
to encounter that sort of thing, being in an innocent newsgroup, and 2,
you deleted it as soon as you realised. You could hardly be prosecuted
if there was no actual material in your possession, I would have
thought. If prosecutions were made on that basis, we'd all be guilty
thanks to the damned spammers who post their sex ads across every
newsgroup going ;/

ATB, Frank.


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