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At 21:02 20/03/00 +0000, Ian Welton wrote: >Duncan, > >I have posted this to the group as it is probably of general interest. > >An observation. Where a pornographic site is visited copies of the images >viewed will be created on the viewing computers hard drive. This can >constitute production of pornography. A bit of a legal difficulty for the >company/individual. As far as this layperson understands it, the copy of an image which may be preserved in the browser's cache directory does not constitute either possession or creation, as those need to be done knowingly. A copy somewhere else, which could reasonably be presumed to result from a "save as" or similar operation, does constitute creation. This seems to be the conclusion of the ruling on appeal quoted in http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/I.Brown/archives/ukcrypto/0200-0500/msg00146.html I'd be *very* grateful for comment on this from those who are more practiced at reading such documents! Andrew -------------------------------------------------------------- Andrew Cormack Head of CERT UKERNA, Atlas Centre, Chilton, Didcot, Oxon. OX11 0QS Phone: 01235 822 302 E-mail: [log in to unmask] Fax: 01235 822 398 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%