Pete Townshend

pete = meat

pete talks to little boys over the internet?

wait for the trial...then if found guilty all bets are off.

It don't look good.... but he is not guilty yet

Agreed. He should have the intelligence to know what he can or cannot do.

It may be worth remembering that he is an aging rock star and so has probably nuked more brain cells than most people even have..

You only get curious about the things that you are interested in. If he is not a pedo already, he is a big potential one.

He would have known about a raid being imminent at least two months before the news first broke that he had gone to his lawyer for advice. The whole investigation around the site in question is being carried out and reported upon almost daily all over the media here in *very* high profile since the end of last year. The 7000+ people in the UK alone that went to that particular site and paid for access by cc know full well that the clock is ticking so I am sure that a few more curious celebrities in the public eye are thinking up excuses right at this very moment.

I really hope he?s not a pedo as I grew up with his music? The problem then is he would then have to be the most stupid fucking person on the planet. Pedo or not he has admitted that he broke the law so it?s just a question of what happens to him next anyway?

Besides the fact that he is most certainly a pedophile ...

I can't believe that anyone would be so stupid as to actually PAY for a child porn site with a credit card ... and leave a record of their identity ...

I don't buy Townshend's lame excuses either ...

It never ceases to amaze me how many pedophiles there are out there ...

I remember hearing this stuff on the news about him claiming

"i only joined the site for 'research' "

I dont buy his story.

However, I guess he is innocent until proven guilty.

He already admitted that he personally paid for access and looked inside the site. That is against the law in itself and punishable by up to several years in prison. Pedo or not he has still broken the same law.

...there was an article in the Guardian (UK broadsheet) saying the site in question (Candyman or something?) was non-'hard core', the equivalent of those 'art' sites.

I find the law very confusing in the UK about this issue, the US because of it's history of free speech I assume, makes a little more sense.

When I was at Art school in the UK, in lectures and things I saw the work of several photographers who had shot naked children. Does that make me, or my lecturers pedophiles?

There have also been arrests in the UK for child porn when the images involved didn't have nude children, or were taken from conventional media, like TV adverts, and magazines, apparently the collecting of such images made them porn.

With such a bizarre legal concept in force it does worry me working in the porn industry, and is why I stick as far away from the teen bracket as possible - I imagine it's not impossible, for instance, that if a pedophile in the UK was arrested and found to have images from your website that appeared to be underage - even if you produced the evidence they were legal - they could be bracketed as part of his child porn collection, and from there it's only a relatively short mental (if not legal) hop to prosecution of the 'producer' of these legal images.

Apologies for the slightly rambling monologue, I have the most awesome hangover.

Guardian article

The documentary that was shown on BBC1 (I believe?) a few weeks back on this site when it first hit the news showed that it was definitely not softcore.

SGS you could well be right, the article says different - but it is hard to get any real accurate information... I guess I could try and search for information on the internet, but who wants to take that risk?

Bah, the who wasn't shit after Keith Moon kicked it.

But aren't we all guilty of having looked at something "extreme" that we were interested in from curiosity, not a strictly prurient standpoint? I know I have seen images of beastiality and scat that didn't interest me at all (but those euros sure seem to dig it!) Hell, I PROMOTE goldenshowers and I have NO interest in that. But again,how could someone be so fucking STUPID to use their credit card to do something illegal. That's like charging an eight-ball at your dealers place. Duh...what if he gets busted? You must have SOME KIND of motivation to do something that dumb.

I think the net has encouraged the curiosity over cp. Before it was very underground and god knows where they bought it or looked for it . Now its a google search I think it makes it way too tempting for some, so in the past someone might have had the curiosity but it wasnt worth the effort. Now if you have the curiosity and a internet connection you can look all you want. For some stupid reason people think f you are looking on your computer in your house you are safe from prosecution.

Could this be Pete's karmic payback for dragging The Who on for 25 years longer than necessary?

I think the Who sucked with or without Moon.