[dave@farber.net: [IP] Downloading equals manufacturing.]
That's some really creative interpretation. ----- Forwarded message from David Farber <dave@farber.net> -----
That's some really creative interpretation. UK courts have taken the same position for some time - in fact, a stricter
Eugen Leitl wrote: position, in that merely VIEWING child porn using a web browser, even accidentally, is Making, a crime for which there is no defense in law.
Hum. So if I LOOK at a video of UK soldiers getting shot, then I've basically done the deed myself, eh? That kind of thinking's going to come in handy over the next few years. -TD
From: Dave Howe <DaveHowe@gmx.co.uk> To: Email List - Cypherpunks <cypherpunks@jfet.org> Subject: Re: [dave@farber.net: [IP] Downloading equals manufacturing.] Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 01:06:50 +0000
That's some really creative interpretation. UK courts have taken the same position for some time - in fact, a stricter
Eugen Leitl wrote: position, in that merely VIEWING child porn using a web browser, even accidentally, is Making, a crime for which there is no defense in law.
Tyler Durden wrote:
Hum. So if I LOOK at a video of UK soldiers getting shot, then I've basically done the deed myself, eh? No, you have made a picture of the deed. if videoing soldiers being shot is illegal, you have therefore committed a crime (it isn't; however, reuters has found to their cost that videoing soldiers shooting unarmed prisoners can get your reporters shot or imprisoned without trial for months...)
That kind of thinking's going to come in handy over the next few years. It already has - of course, with the new Terror laws just passed in the UK, they can now hold you without charge for three months just because they want to....
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