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Here is where you are wrong. Please don’t download or allow your friends to download child porn thinking you can use the “virus” defense.
There are several ways the DA can prove cases - computer forensics is pretty sophisticated now. This doesn’t look like a case where 18 men took their computers to Best Buy because they had a virus and they found child porn.
They spent a year or so investigating.
Child porn in the US is illegal. When they shut down a site they can trace back and see through IP addresses who visited. If payment was required then they can trace credit cards. There are tons of ways a computer user can draw suspicion. When they draw enough suspicion they get a search warrant and confiscate the computer. Computer experts then conduct forensic tests that show which sites were vistied, for how long and for how often. </p>
<p>If all these men are so “innocent” then why are they not finding files of thousands of images on computers owned by women? </p>
<p>I do think, it is important to understand the crime and the tendencies that cause men to commit it. It is not about excusing it but finding out why so the crime can be prevented and preventing men who serve their time from becoming repeat offenders.</p>
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<p>So, Mantori-Suzuki, when did you decide to become a heterosexual?</p>
<p>Don’t like pedophilia to homosexuality. Please. There is no relationship.</p>
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<p>Huh? Why are you using this line on me? I said homosexuals are born that way and can’t change it. Did you think I was being sarcastic? I wasn’t.</p>
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<p>They are both sexual preferences. Neither is chosen, and neither can be changed. In that sense they are related. Likewise heterosexuality, bisexuality, transgendered. You can view them as normal, as quirks, as dangerous…but not as choices. They’re not. And in that limited sense, they are alike. The difference is that pedophilia, if acted upon, harms another person, which is why it’s important to control it. But don’t bother asking a pedophile not to be attracted to children, because they can’t simply choose such a thing.</p>
<p>Mantori-suzuki, thanks for clarifying. Obviously I and at least one other person misunderstood what you were driving at.</p>
<p>I’m not so sure that pedophilia can be described as simply a sexual preference, though, nor that is is innate. Isn’t there some degree of evidence that there is a link between being the victims of a pedophile and becoming a pedophile, or is that no longer considered true?</p>
<p>That’s a good point. On the one hand, the research I’m aware of demonstrates that pedophilia is very difficult, if not impossible, to reverse or suppress. On the other hand, I am not aware of research on “innate” versus “learned” pedophilia, and you are right, many child molesters were molested themselves, suggesting a behavioral rather than genetic cause. So I really shouldn’t have said they’re born that way, only that their tendencies—in most cases, at least—can not be unlearned. The best we can hope is that behavioral therapy will prevent them from acting on their urges and to direct them toward socially acceptable outlets for their desires.</p>
<p>I think pedophilia is a separate issue from child porn, anyway. It’s been pretty well demonstrated that many molesters/child porn consumers are not pedophiles, and that many pedophiles are not molesters/child porn consumers. In fact, the most heinous sexual crimes against children are committed not by pedophiles per se, but by men who are basically rapists, who choose children as convenient victims.</p>
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<p>If only the criminal justice system thought the same way. It’s all about punishment and revenge now. The system’s been perverted by gullible, uneducated citizenry and lying politicians.</p>
<p>As far as innocence versus guilt, the DAs proved nothing.</p>
<p>Besides, I don’t do pornography. Nor is my computer vulnerable to viruses. And I don’t do limewire either. And I own a mac. I do everything short of not going online to protect myself.</p>