Limewire: Man DL's "GGW", Gets CP, May get 20Follow

The theory is that if you punish people who trade child ****, it'll remove some kind of market and therefore reduce the rate at which children are victimized by it. I honestly don't buy it either. I would assume that most of the kids appearing in child pornography are either involved in child prostitution, or are just victims of some pedophile. In both cases, the pictures are a byproduct of the primary crime. No amount of chasing down the guys trading pictures of the child victims will prevent them from being victims.

It is possible to trace said pictures back to the victims and the people victimizing them, but whether or not they prosecute some random guy who downloaded the pictures off a site or not really has not bearing on that. Or at least, I can't see how it does. And I also can't see how reducing the number of people downloading said pictures in any way diminishes the rate at which children will become victims.

Yet another reason notepadLaTeX is better than word, I guess.

Actually.....to make it illegal, those in question (in the pictures) have to be underage. I have seen several mid-teen girls that - if I didnt know their age - I could have easily mistaken them for being 21 years old. Conversely, I know several females who are older than 20 and look 15. I am sure there are some obvious crimes, but I also suspect that there is a large portion of pictures/videos that - while if the exact age is known would be illegal - if it is not, reasonable doubt about their age (people falling into the 15-25 year range) could be called into question which should throw out the case.

So, if the feds dont have the exact age of the girl - ie, they dont know who she is and cannot actually verify her age exactly - wouldnt that be reasonable doubt?