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Subject: Re: Headmaster faces sack over criminal record... for an out-of-date fishing rod licence Posted on: Thu, 15 May 2008 16:48:16 +0100

On Thu, 15 May 2008 15:30:45 GMT, Palindrome wrote:

>> If, and only if the material in question was deliberately and
>> knowingly acquired. If it was downloaded without the downloader
>> realising that the material was likely to be illegal, then your point
>> does not follow.
>>
>Later in the same post I went on to write:
>
> "...if they have deliberately broken the law in the full knowledge of
>the consequences..."
>
>Those that really haven't much of a clue about computers and/or this
>particular bit of legislation should be covered by, "Never treat
>anything as enemy action that can be reasonably explained by incompetence."

It is not *only* lack of computer knowlege that could get a person
into trouble. It is also lack of knowlege of the sort of images that
a court is likely to decide are indecent and therefore illegal.

--
Cynic