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[Trurl]

spankwire for LIFE baby.


:lol , if you don't know what it is, look it up, you'll thank me forever.

You could have at least warned me that it's NSFW. >=^[

 

[SlaughterX]

He's also gonna get his shit packed in prison.

 

[Brannon]

Best bet would be to just backup anything you want to save and throw the drive away.

In another trashcan far, far away from you, after opening it and breaking it of course. Then start anew with a brand new drive and be more careful. Of course this is a bit extreme and some people really get attached to their drives.

 

[Ploid 3.0]

If what he said is the truth I would NEVER plead guilty. I would fight that charge, fuck them.

While in prison for 20 years you can learn japanese for final fantasy 23

 

[Trevelyon]

If what he said is the truth I would NEVER plead guilty. I would fight that charge, fuck them.

idk.... in the face of twenty years of salad tossing and sweet jail love, that shitty plea bargin would be lookin' awfully nice.

 

[Drkirby]

So I take it if I ever download child porn by mistake, toss the hard drive into a fire and scatter the remands in the ocean?

 

[Diablos]

Wow, watching the news broadcast at the link really pissed me off. The reporter put more emphasis on the fact that he downloaded a large collection of files and unknowingly saved the illegal one. The lady at the news desk didn't even let it phase her, and went on to say "it's an important lesson" or some bullshit like that. Perfect example of how a kneejerk society reacts to kneejerk laws.

This story makes me fearful for our rights, online and off.

 

[criesofthepast]

You could have at least warned me that it's NSFW. >=^[

What did you think SPANKwire could have been? The google description alone should have given it away:

"Free porn video tube site updated constantly. Thousands of xxx and sex videos. "

 

[Trevelyon]

toss the hard drive into a fire and scatter the remands in the ocean?

You'll probably get done by the FBI Atlantis branch.

soz.

 

[Buckethead]

One of my college professors told our class that he went online and tried to find child porn because everyone had said how easy it is and his colleagues' blind agreement annoyed him.

He said as hard as he tried he never found any. :lol

 

[water_wendi]

So I take it if I ever download child porn by mistake, toss the hard drive into a fire and scatter the remands in the ocean?

Seriously? Smash the platters with a hammer.. fry the circuitry (use a laptop or monitor AC adapter fitted with paper clip extensions and short out the different chips).. take the remaining pieces and discard them in separate locations (some buried, some in dumpster, etc). Any tools that you used to do this also get rid of (hammer donated to a charity in a different city, etc). Also melt the fingerprints off your hands before doing any of this. You can also slice them off with razors.

 

[Brannon]

Seriously? Smash the platters with a hammer.. fry the circuitry (use a laptop or monitor AC adapter fitted with paper clip extensions and short out the different chips).. take the remaining pieces and discard them in separate locations (some buried, some in dumpster, etc). Any tools that you used to do this also get rid of (hammer donated to a charity in a different city, etc). Also melt the fingerprints off your hands before doing any of this. You can also slice them off with razors.

You're forgetting putting the platters to a belt sander first; THIS IS IMPORTANT *scoff*.

 

[Uncompromisable]

This whole story makes me sick to my stomac.

 

[_Isaac]

The family seems surprisingly nonchalant. The dad said something about a lesson for other parents. How about a lesson on how stupid this system is. It also makes me sick to my stomac.*



*These remarks only apply if it truly was an accident.

 

[water_wendi]

You're forgetting putting the platters to a belt sander first; THIS IS IMPORTANT *scoff*.

Thats a good method. Melting the metal down in a microwave is another route if you dont have a forge or kiln or dont have access to hydrochloric acid.

 

[Jackson50]

*These remarks only apply if it truly was an accident.

It was either an accident or we are not being told the entire story. I doubt someone who intentionally looks at that stuff only downloads one file.

 

[Zaptruder]

Thats a good method. Melting the metal down in a microwave is another route if you dont have a forge or kiln or dont have access to hydrochloric acid.

Or you could just you know...

eat it.

 

[water_wendi]

Or you could just you know...

eat it.

The feds have people waiting in the sewer system to comb through your daily deposit. Dont think im not on to you.

 

[Masta_Killah]

This story doesn't add up. The FBI must have been monitoring him for a while for him to be convicted. Also, the fact that he decided to plea bargain seems rather fishy. If it was an accident and only a one time offense, any innocent person would fight those charges.

 

[Diablos]

What would happen if someday there's a huge initiative to crack down on people who have downloaded anything illegal/pirated otherwise legal material(s)? Say there's a huge retroactive cyberpirate bust. It really does make one wonder; not only if they'd simply go through with it, but what the criteria would be to label one as potentially guilty. For example, would downloading an mp3 someone posted at some forum or blog you visited be enough? Or how about the obscene 100x100 jpeg thumbnails at an imageboard that you may or may not have even noticed?

If they had enough time to single out this kid after a year over one file, I would think that anything is possible.

 

[Slayer-33]

You could have at least warned me that it's NSFW. >=^[

aw c'mon bro sorry but I thought it was to be expected my bad.. :lol

and it warns you before you can even see anything lol, asks for age... and yeah the name son the name :lol

 

[Masta_Killah]

You could have at least warned me that it's NSFW. >=^[

:lol the name wasn't enough?

 

[_Isaac]

Isn't that called Ex post facto? I don't think those are allowed in this here country called the U.S.

 

[Brannon]

On an off note, ever since InPrivate/Incognito browsing, I use that for anything 'blue', so to speak.

 

[Willectro]

I doubt it was an accident. Using Limewire was his first mistake.

 

[Azuran]

This story doesn't add up. The FBI must have been monitoring him for a while for him to be convicted. Also, the fact that he decided to plea bargain seems rather fishy. If it was an accident and only a one time offense, any innocent person would fight those charges.

This.

There's no reason an innocent man would plead guilty for any crime without a trial. He's obviously a pedo who got caught.

 

[Trurl]

aw c'mon bro sorry but I thought it was to be expected my bad.. :lol

and it warns you before you can even see anything lol, asks for age... and yeah the name son the name :lol

Spoiler

It's actually a site I visit daily. :-(

 

[dark_chris]

Nah, I don't think its one file anyway. It must have been more and one file remained.

 

[666]

There MUST be more to this, otherwise that dude just needs a REAL fucking lawyer! Insanity.

 

[Ploid 3.0]

His lawyer is one of them, no real lawyer would side with a pedo. That lawyer would be branded for life.

 

[Lafiel]

This is why i stopped using lirmwire. And i didn't even use it to download pr0n.:lol

 

[NimbusD]

This story doesn't add up. The FBI must have been monitoring him for a while for him to be convicted. Also, the fact that he decided to plea bargain seems rather fishy. If it was an accident and only a one time offense, any innocent person would fight those charges.

 

[$200]

Wow that's just wrong. Here in Australia they won't even arrest you for possessing drugs as long as you don't distribute them.

 

[Monroeski]

I love how many people in this thread are just assuming the guy is telling the truth.

Reminds me of The Shawshank Redemption and how none of the guys were guilty; the damn lawyer just screwed 'em!

 

[KHarvey16]

I think it's important to look at the intention of the law. The sex offender list exists to separate those who are a danger to children from children. Is a person who downloaded child porn from Limewire a year ago and deleted it immediately a danger to children? Does it matter if he downloaded 1 file or 5?

 

[Cheerilee]

This is why ordinary American citizens were given the right to bear arms, and should have the right to siege weapons and body armor. To be protected from their own government.

Feds ever come knocking to fuck my life up for no reason, I'd like to return the favor. Kill a few dozen cops. Apparently that's not much worse of a crime than thinking the wrong thing these days anyways, so why not?

I love how many people in this thread are just assuming the guy is telling the truth.

Reminds me of The Shawshank Redemption and how none of the guys were guilty; the damn lawyer just screwed 'em!

I entered the thread fully expecting that he "accidentally" (wink wink) downloaded child porn. The fact that the Feds couldn't find any on his computer is what changed my mind. If he was even slightly pedo, he'd still have something tucked away somewhere.

After that, the only possible explanation other than "accident" would be that he once looked at a few images on purpose just to check if he was pedo or not, and found that he wasn't. And considering that most of us seem to know how easy it is to accidentally find something you didn't expect on the internet, I think we're willing to give him the benefit of the doubt.


Edit: BTW, I'm not seriously advocating the killing of police officers.

 

[Sirpopopop]

This story doesn't add up. The FBI must have been monitoring him for a while for him to be convicted. Also, the fact that he decided to plea bargain seems rather fishy. If it was an accident and only a one time offense, any innocent person would fight those charges.

The public defenders are just as much a part of the system as the prosecutors and police officers.

 

[_Isaac]

FBI probably planted the evidence. hmph.

 

[K.Jack]

If you're innocent, never plead guilty.

 

[Plywood]

If you think 12chan is bad you haven't visited russian 2chan... They managed to freak out /b/ which is a pretty big achievement.

Story time please.

 

[vital]

in a year time, expect 20 years.

Pshhh, Ive been going to 12chan for years and nothing............. I mean.... 12chan? whats that?

 

[Fox the Sly]

Moral of the story, if you accidentally run across CP, DBAN your hard drive immediately.

 

[big_z]

coming across child porn is far to easy these days to convict someone by having traces of it on their hard drive. i would imagine anyone that searches through porn a fair bit has come across child porn in one way or another.

now if you have a stash of CP then by all means guilty.

 

[perfectchaos007]

Gamestop sold copies of the Guy Game a few years ago. There was CP in that game. Gamestop was therefor mass-distributing CP. Why haven't the feds gotten gamestop in trouble? oh right, it's okay if big-business sells CP. jk, it's all really stupid. Again, the makers of the guy game didn't know one of the girls was 17, but neither did the guy in this story know he downloaded a naked underage girl pic from what I read.

 

[Pandaman]

Gamestop sold copies of the Guy Game a few years ago. There was CP in that game. Gamestop was therefor mass-distributing CP. Why haven't the feds gotten gamestop in trouble? oh right, it's okay if big-business sells CP. jk, it's all really stupid. Again, the makers of the guy game didn't know one of the girls was 17, but neither did the guy in this story know he downloaded a naked underage girl pic from what I read.

even more amusing are laws against drawn child pornography.

anyone remember the skateboarding scene in the simpsons movie?

 

[roosters93]

This shit is so fucked up.

Not much different than adults. If you're a 17-year-old guy and a 17-year-old girl each with naked pictures of each other, you're looking at significant jail time and registry on a sex-offenders list for the rest of your life.

WHAT!

I'm sorry but the US legal system seems fucked.

 

[orioto]

There is something that bugs me every times with this "we can reconstruct anything that has been deleted on your computer" thing.

Wouldn't that mean that you can have infinite storage place on any hard drive :lol ??

 

[perfectchaos007]

even more amusing are laws against drawn child pornography.

anyone remember the skateboarding scene in the simpsons movie?

of course. did 20th century fox get in trouble for that?

 

[Pandaman]

of course. did 20th century fox get in trouble for that?

not that i'm aware of, but i know people have been charged with possession of drawn CP here in canada.

 

[TheHeretic]

There is something that bugs me every times with this "we can reconstruct anything that has been deleted on your computer" thing.

Wouldn't that mean that you can have infinite storage place on any hard drive :lol ??

When you delete a file it stays on your hard drive, the OS will only write over it when it has to. So if you had 500gb of child pornography on a 500gb drive, deleted it all and replaced it with 500gb of eagles albums the CP would be gone. Thats an absolute solution though and hence this data can stick around.