Feds target P2P child porn

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RIAA up to their necks in this one

If you carefully read the article (and not skim), you would have seen that the RIAA IS involved in the attempt to kill P2P and they DID use the child porn angle to lobby against sharing in general.

The problem is that child porn is NOT illegal in many other countries and no matter how many laws get passed in the US, the material is still coming through from Asia and Europe. Killing P2P will not stop the flow. Go to any newsgroup list and check the alt.binaries if you don't believe me.

In addition, as has been pointed out, you have kids making their own "porn" (with or without the parents knowing), exchanging their images for pay.

The worst problem with the law as proposed and the ones already in existance is that ANY image of an unclothed child can be considered porn. There was a famous case a few years back where an art student took pictures of her young kids playing in the water on a summer's day, nekkid as jaybirds (I am sure our parents all have similar pictures of us doing something like that.) When she had the pictures developed, the photo clerk called the cops and she was arrested for making "pornographic images of minors." It took a long time to get the case tossed, but she went into heavy debt and almost lost her kids over it. Under one existing statute, a picture of my kid in a two-piece swimsuit could be considered illegal if she poses "provocatively" (and who gets to decide what THAT entails? Some dirty old man judge who secretly gets off on it?).

Blanket laws seem like a good thing, but they are dangerous because they cover more instances than they ever were meant to. Child porn is WRONG, but banning file sharing is not going to stop it.

Posted by: AbsolutelyNot   Posted on: 05/17/04 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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