Australia's New South Wales tries net-censorship

[Declan B. McCullagh]

Excerpts from internet.cypherpunks: 8-Apr-96 Re: Australia's New South
W.. by Mike Duvos at netcom.com 
> 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.
>  
> There is a case now involving the University of Pittsburgh in
> which the Feds are attempting to prove that an individual was in
> possession of certain child porn images on his own PC during a
> brief span of time in 1993.

For it to be a crime, I would presume that the courts would require
"guilty knowledge" of the act. (At least I hope they would!)

As for the Pitt "child porn" case, I've spoken with the fellow's
roommate and have some more info at:

  http://fight-censorship.dementia.org/fight-censorship/dl?num=1924

-Declan