Just for the record, we are sharing legal music illegaly (oops!). Child porn is illegal by definition. Doesn't make us saints, but there's a subtle difference, don't you think?

Or are you actually sharing illegal music? What kind of music is that (no, don't answer, this is just a rhetorical question)?

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Are you one of those people who defends their opinions by pointing out technicalities of others people's posts ?
If yes , I shall waiste my time somewhere else .

No, I was politely pointing out that you got things confused. You were supposed to figure that out (Besides I'm not defending anyone's opinion).

File sharers aren't too bothered about the legal accusations made by RIAA and the like for different reasons (mostly because they think record companies are charging way too much for a CD). Some actually believe that the accusations would not hold. Others take this as a form of "sampling". For them, file sharing is still a grey area, legally speaking.

Now, child pornography is an established crime; period.

So there you go, I didn't think I needed to spell it out, but hope you see the point now.

Besides, for many of us, child porn is distasteful anyway.

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i was sexually abused and i do not find the things on this site very nice and will be complaining about this for all the people that desighed this site know is that maybe a child is actually useing theis site and gets in with one of these pervs. i cant believe that the guys from limwire cant stop this or maybe they dont want too maybe we should all think WHY

First - Gnutella (the network that LimeWire is a client for) is not like napster. It has been deliberately designed so that there aren't any central servers through which the content is filtered. This means that it isn't possible to remove child porn from the network.

2. There is a freedom of information issue here. Today child pornography is the worst thing most people can imagine. In other times and places religious, political, sexual, social and personal freedom of expression has been curtailed. The price for freedom of information is that other people get to have freedom of their information. If you want the right to say (or distribute) your favourite/important things - then you must accept that other people also have this right. And yes; sometimes what they say will annoy/anger/frighten/tittilate or otherwise affect you.

c. Why get steamed up about child pornography? Surely we should get steamed up about child abuse? Pictures of people being murdered aren't illegal, but murder is illegal. Pictures of the act might help to prosecute the offenders. [Getting hysterical over CP and Paedophilia is a way of avoiding the unpleasant fact that the vast (overwhelming) majority of child abuse happens within the family].

iv. There is no evidence that pornography of any kind leads to criminal activity or child abuse. It may even reduce such things. E.g. A trial in a prison showed violent films to the inmates. The incidence of actual violence within the prison reduced. E.g. 2 - the highest rate of teenage pregnancies in europe is in the country with the strictest sexual censorship rules. The lowest rate if teenage pregnancies in europe is in the country with least sexual censorship.

Epsilon. As far as I am aware, the vast majority of what claims to be child porn is not. Quite a lot appears to be adverts for (above age of consent) sex sites.

Mark

Must have been horrible ...