Howdy bci, and welcome to the Gnutella Forums!

Claiming that CP was not the kind of porn that he intended to download was not his best move; he was either too honest and/or too stupid. However, if only one file on his machine could be classed as CP, and it was deleted two-years ago, (evidence of a mistake, rather than a repeat offender), then the proceedings against him are a huge waste of resources and an apparent violation of the legislative intent of the law.

However, imho, the FBI is not above ruining this young man's life in order to discourage ("illegal") p-p. How many people will be deterred after hearing that the kid got busted after accidently downloading only one file? Makes Limewire sound scary.

Hi BCI & Blackhorse 70V

I would've thought that the FBI should be out catching terrorist and organised criminals rather than busting a kid, barely out of his teenage years, for downloading porn.

You know, this seems to be about catching people out rather than justice or catching real criminals, i.e. the producers and distributors of CP.

All I can say is that it seems that the US is becoming more like China or Russia everyday where the law is used to keep ordinary citizens in their place, rather than protect, and justice is a joke.


UK Bob