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Re: A Friend Sent You a Link from NewYorkMetro.com
I didn't find it at this link. Is it current?
keets
This is an article I found while reading the New York magazine. Below is
the part that mentions Pete Townshend.
Jo
Child porn, unlike adult porn, is rarely for sale on the internet. In its
1984 Child Protection Act, Congress recognized that since much of the
material isn't produced for commercial purposes, its distribution and
production should be illegal regardless of no intent to sell. Nowadays,
putting up your credit-card information on the internet for child porn
would be the equivalent-as the Who's Pete Townshend learned in January and
Penn's Paul Mosher realized in April-of holding out your hands to be
cuffed. But to law enforcement, the fact that these images are
disseminated for free, the disturbed cottage of fathers, stepfathers,
incles and boyfriends who produce most of them in their bedrooms, living
rooms or garages, is no excuse to leave them up. According to Vranich, the
sheer volumne of porn out there creates online communities where "you think
what you're doing is completely normal."
Law enforcement targets the end user-even though no money is changing
hands-in order to discourage production of the images.
"The idea is that this is an underground industry and we have to go after
the end users because it's so difficult to find the original perpetrators,"
explains Adler. "If we punish enough end users, and enough people are
scared to go to jail, the argument is, no one will create the images."
http://www.newyorkmetro.com/nymetro/news/crimelaw/features/n_8815/
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