vinyl1 wrote:
Unlike the case of the drug courier who says he didn't know what was in the box, the node operator cannot find out what is in the box. More importantly, if the police seize his node, they cannot find out either. They may be encrypted fragments of illegal files, they may be encrypted fragments of legal files--no one can say. So there is no proof that a crime was even committed. You may say that there are illegal files on Freenet, but how could you know that unless you have requested them? If you did, it is you and not I who is trouble.
In principle I think that's an accurate description of the situation. In practice though, courts are known to not always make crystal clear analyses and apply the law strictly correctly. Rulings based on a simple "we don't like what you did, so it has to be illegal" are relatively commonplace. There is therefore one more part to this equation: the court itself and the situation where you live. If you get prosecuted in Iran for spreading porn and blasphemies with your freenet node, you'll probably be far better off in an express bus headed for the border, than in court arguning legal fineties. The same can sometimes be true in the US too, especially if you have the misfortune to be both black and poor.
...took my cocaine and disolved it in acid...
Blasphemy!
Z
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