Underage Nudity Being Shared On The Gnutella Network - Porn and Laws

Aaron, these are terrible stories I've read here. Last month I was downloading what I thought was a legal adult movie and when I previewed it halfway through I saw it was kp. Needless to say I deleted it but everything I've read here has me extremely scared and paranoid. I keep hearing the only way to truly rid something from your hd is to destroy the drive itself. I was in the market for a new computer anyway and from all I've read I'm tempted to just destroy this one and go ahead and get a new one. And thoughts would be appreciated.
 
I'm just scared. I stupidly downloaded a few child pornography images out of some reckless impulse. I don't want my world to obliterate as a result. I was an idiot for that. I'm a college educated student with many opportunities, and I do something so mindless...for what, some stupid self-indulgence that's pointless and illegal? I don't understand this still...I'm trying to make sense of it. I'm still trying to understand a temporary lapse of reasoning and a moment of...derangement?...that crossed my mind.

Blah!

I don't need my life to be ruined by a judicial process and incarceration because of this. I've suffered torment already just worrying.

It would help me if I knew how long it typically took for police to execute a search and seizure warrant. Does it take hours? - Days? - A week?
A month?


How long must I worry until I can move on and accept the idea that I screwed up, made a mistake, and can continue with my life. I don't want to suffer because of a 1:00 a.m. impulse.

And still, I feel if I do end up investigated...I'm going to prison no matter what. It seems like the law is set up entirely against you. Lawyers carry enormous expenses on the federal level, and the law is just going to call you guilty. I doubt I could use some pathos - soothing argument on a jury, reminding them that they too are human and have made mistakes, and may regret many mistakes in THEIR lives.

This isn't fair. This isn't right. I'm sorry for everything, but I'm fearing the worst... It's hard to find pride when all I feel are shame and paranoia.
 
Frost158

As BCI said, it is highly likely that you were sharing these CP files because, unless your app is configured otherwise, LW will share all your downloads by default.

Also, there are so many files marked with false names it is quite easy to download what you think are ordinary files and on inspection find that they are something else.

I guess you will have to convince the authorities that you did not know you had these files and, I suspect, did not know you were sharing them as well.


UK Bob
 
It works better if you don't reformat the disk because all the existing data
moving around overwrites the sectors that used to have the offending data.

Since you "emptied" the disk first, you'll have to get one of those secure delete
tools to scrub all of that empty space now.
 
Thanks Bob, and do you know if this "possession" can be proved from possible accidental sharing or must it be found in the physical form on the persons computer, as many people in this thread have evidently accidentally come across this stuff with partial download sharing enabled and sharing their download folder before they could delete it.

I ask this because I dont remember anyone who has ever been arrested who wasnt found with this stuff on their computer (US cases as well)
 
Are you sure you had the IP address? If things were that simple, in the US anyway, you would have cops doing the same thing. Unless I'm wrong a cop with a IP address one can go to Dell or whoever and find out who the machine is registered with for warranty purposes.

Making that knowledge public in most Western countries will scare off every CP distributor of note.
 
Over the past few years many have come here and complained about accidently downloading CP (and often demanding that Limewire do something about it). Indeed, this thread is 34 pages!

Never heard of any of them getting busted. The FBI didn't come after me, and I got a couple of CP files that were mis-named. Another file I downloaded by accident was actually labeled PTHC and turned out to be a Betty Boop cartoon. I changed the name and kept the file.

To the FBI: The disk with the CP crashed so I got a new computer and recycled the old one. And I am certain Ms Boop was over 18 when she made the film.
 
another 'great' post saved for posterity via this quote....

Orange is obviously a bit confused....and you are not even close to understanding where he/she is coming from....

he's thinking an IP address is somehow correlated to ones hardware, which its not for what he is thinking...though technically it is, as the MAC address of the NIC card and modem is associated in a way with the MAC address....if one changes a NIC card or modem then one will immediately get a new IP addy...in fact if you don't power down a modem when connecting a different computer (note I am not referring to a router here) then the new computer will not connect to the internet as the modem expects to be seeing the MAC address of the old machine....once powered down the new computer will connect to the net and one will have a different IP addy....

as a note it is illegal to harvest MAC address, though hackers do it all the time and I'm sure many websites do it also...that is a 'true' way to identify a machine in specific, and it is also a way to illegally hound a person across the net as while you IP addy may change, the MAC addresses particular to specific hardware will not (unless the hardware is changed out)....
 
Not too long ago a friend of mine accidentally got some filth on his harddrive. It was a deliberately mislabeled file, changed to the name of a popular kids movie at the time. Thankfully he had the common sense to preview the file before watching it with his daughter.

So he should have checked the file with Bitzi before downloading, but apart from that, he had no way of knowing it wasn't a legit rip. Name looked like a scene release, file size was the normal 700ish MB, avi extension, the works.

Just always use Bitzi to check the file before downloading. Can save you heaps of trouble.
 
Honestly Lime wire should be blamed for underage porn found on there web. This is because They should AUTOMATICLY block the keywords and not put a option...than there would be no problems like this now would there.
 
You mean like when I type in "Amy Lee" for some music, I come upon "Amy Lee: Cute Teen has orgasm on screen!"

I mean dude, I'm 13. My mom has seen it as she used to use Limewire on her old labtop. Not pleased.

Why doesn't anyone that works on Limewire get rid of these Spambots or whatever in hell they are? I REALLY don't want to see Futurama Porn or Anime Hentai.
 
Hey, Peerless !

I think I've finally found my first fan club member !!!

btw... Marion wasn't very tall, either !
Not exactly Alan Ladd Munchkin-like, but gittin' thar !!!

Mind you, old Marion did have the singular line in a movie that absolutely defines the great Dumfukistani ethos...

"You get your crew out there, in the morning, sober and on time !"

hallelujah !!! hallelujah, hallelujah !!!!!!!! u.s.w.
 
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