Re: Australia's New South Wales tries net-censorship

At 9:01 4/8/96, Mike Duvos wrote:

I'd be interested to know if the courts have ever had a case in which a person has been declared to have been in "possession" of illegal material merely by virtue of its momentary presence in their cache, screen buffer, or usenet spool.

If you want a real world analogy, there are cases where overeager USPS Inspectors who want to "get" someone have sent them porno as a Return Receipt Requested Item and then raided before the person had had a chance to open the package. That is possession under the Law.