Re: Townsend

[Richard Chonak <rac@gabrielmass.com>]

On Tue, 2003-01-14 at 16:48, Dan Billings wrote:
>
> If they downloaded illegal images, they would be breaking the law.  It would
> be just like a journalist buying illegal drugs to research a story on the
> drug trade.  The key would be whether they actually ever possessed illegal
> images.  They have to stop short of doing that.


It takes very little action to download an image: merely viewing it
through a web browser is sufficient.   The browser cannot display 
an image that it has not downloaded and saved, at least temporarily, 
in the user's computer.

--RC