Posted by kim on 10/24/05 04:50

"anthonyberet" <nospam@me.invalid> wrote in message
news:3s08ngFlttrkU3@individual.net...
> kim wrote:
>> "Morton Davis" <antikerry@home.com> wrote in message
>> news:aPe6f.263188$084.196035@attbi_s22...
>>
>>
>>>Sharing incompletes is a great way to spread viruses without your knowing
>>>it. Or to send share a misnamed porno file.
>>
>>
>> Yup, the kind of file that will have the FBI or Interpol banging on your
>> door at two o'clock in the morning without you even knowing why. ALWAYS
>> download to an unshared folder and ALWAYS check the contents before
>> moving to a shared folder. Delete any file that contains material you
>> would not want the neighbours to hear about because sooner or later they
>> will.
>>
>
> Now that is a slightly more sobering argument.
> I wonder though, how likely it would be for dodgy porno to be misnamed in
> that way.

Percentage-wise the incidence is very low but if you download a very large
number of files - such as with still pictures - you are almost certain to
encounter at least a few of them. I am guessing people deliberately mislabel
certain files in order to avoid detection at home then inadvertently upload
the same files without realising it. I've been told by a lawyer who
specialises in this subject that ignorance of the contents of a file is not
a defence in court against a charge of having downloaded it and I know of an
actual recent case in which a foreign exchange student was jailed for 12
months for having had just five illegal files on his PC out of a total of
17,000. His sentence was probably reduced on appeal (they seldom report
that) but personally I would rather not take the chance.

(kim)

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