Man in Court over Simpsons Porn

Elessar · 03-02-2010 12:52PM

MikeC101 wrote: »

I think the issue in the eyes of the law is only concerning images, not text. Of course you make a perfectly good point - what makes a drawing any more "real" than a graphic description?

Actually, if you read the legislation, anything depicting a child in such a manner (even text) is illegal. So if you happened upon a story someone has written involving sexual activity with someone under 18, you have committed a crime (it is considered child porn).

MikeC101 · 03-02-2010 12:57PM

So is it ignored on the basis of "literary value" in works of text then? Otherwise I'd think the Gardai would be raiding every library and book shop in the country.

Dan I Am · 04-02-2010 08:47PM

I wonder if there was more going on here. Finding the stuff in the ''recycle bin' seems pretty suspicious to me. I mean the guy is a paedophile who has been using computers since at least his last conviction in 2003, but he doesn't even empty the recycle bin? Maybe he thought that the simpsons stuff wouldn't even be illegal, whilst he heavily 'shredded' another section of his hard drive before handing the computer over to the police?

CrazyRabbit · 04-02-2010 09:43PM

Dan I Am wrote: »

I wonder if there was more going on here. Finding the stuff in the ''recycle bin' seems pretty suspicious to me. I mean the guy is a paedophile who has been using computers since at least his last conviction in 2003, but he doesn't even empty the recycle bin? Maybe he thought that the simpsons stuff wouldn't even be illegal, whilst he heavily 'shredded' another section of his hard drive before handing the computer over to the police?

Emptying the recycle bin is useless. It's like removing an item from the index in a catalog. The item is still there in the catalog, it's just harder to find.

And, like all criminals, he never actually thought he would get caught.

Man in Court over Simpsons Porn

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