Mike Duvos wrote:

Someone who has an encrypted file on their hard drive from some motheaten child porn magazine published 20 years ago is no more guilty of the exploitation of the models portrayed than someone who downloads the Simpson crime scene photos from alt.binaries.pictures.tasteless is guilty of killing Nicole and Ron.

I disagree. If (quite hypothetically) I were one of the "models" in such a magazine (I'm 27 now, so I would have been 7 at the time it was published), I would certainly consider anyone posessing a copy, today or 20 years ago, to be exploiting me. However, that doesn't mean I would want them criminalized for it. In fact, my "anyone possessing a copy" above includes the Government (and third parties such as the Guardian Angels) in the course of a kiddie-porn investigation/prosecution. It's a very hard question. And yes, people who download Simpson crime scene photos are exploiting (not killing) Nicole and Ron. When I have been shown these photos, I have quickly averted my eyes. This is simple human decency, not to mention respect for the dead. Will French <wfrench@interport.net>