dlex

So, Pete Townshend is cleared of not having any cp in his possesion but because he visited a website he is put on the sex offender list for 5 years..now he said he was looking into it for research purposes...But what I want to know is how do they gauge who to put on this list? If you happen to hit a tgp/freesite etc. that had cp on it are you in shit because you accessed it for 1 min, 5 min? If they go through your computer...how long can they tell you were on a site?..if it came up as a popup it will still show being accessed in the computers history...I wonder how they track this? Or is it by ip address..going through cp site? The main reason I am wondering this is because these people that keep coming on this board saying "Found this (cp link) what should I do with it, should I report it? They have all accessed that cp site..so is that not the same thing?

Here's the article....

Pete Townshend cleared of child porn charges
Thursday May 8, 2003



Pete Townshend, guitarist and co-founder of The Who, was cleared of charges of possessing child pornography earlier this week.

London's Metropolitan police announced that Townshend "was not in possession of any downloaded child abuse images," but because he visited a web site in 1999 that contained such material, he was placed on a national register of sex offenders for the next five years.

In a statement, Townshend admitted that he was wrong to access such a web site, however he was doing research for his autobiography. He maintained that he has campaigned against child pornography in the past and had no "nefarious purpose" in visiting the questionable web site.

"As I made clear at the outset, I accessed the site because of my concerns at the shocking material readily available in the Internet to children as well as adults, and as part of my research toward the campaign I had been putting together since 1995 to counter damage done by all kinds of pornography on the Internet, but especially any involving child abuse."