Oh man I'm really anxious, I hope someone responds.

Ok I'm 16, I live in australia, I was googling teen porn for the usual kind of thing you see of like 18+ (usually 20's im guessing) year old girls or so >.< and anyway I came across a site with this term, probably first result on the list, and to my horror as I went through the pictures you could tell at least 1/4 of were kids. I immediately closed the site, and here I am now , googled "accidentally came across childporn" and started reading.

Ah god I'm really scared, I hope this doesn't come down on me in any badway, I've been really paranoid, because even on tv here, they've been cracking down on CP and the IP's of those in the CP rings, or possibly IP's of those who view them.

I'm really scared, anyone give me some advice?

cpHotline.org
ASACP: Association of Sites Advocating Child Protection

the best thing you can do is to report that url at one of the above sites...

reading back through a lot of the previous posts I see repeated comments of how can you mistakenly download this stuff on gnutella...

well, its really according to how and what you download...

there are mislabeled files aplenty...and there are plenty that are not named in a way that easily identifies them...and there are those that are named in a way that is impossible to determine...

let me give a couple of examples...and fyi I am just making up the particulars...

OK...you are a 'normal' male and like seeing naked humans of whatever sex attracts you...or maybe you just like viewing pictures that others have taken and put in their shares (I would fall into the latter category...there are some really nice pictures of places I will never see in person floating around)...

1st category: so you download some images that are obviously soft porn...you decide those are pretty nice...so you choose to browse that user's list and choose to download all the pictures whose title begins with Mary, or somesuch...well it is quite possible that one of those Mary pictures is of a naked 12 year old...

2nd category: you just blindly start downloading images with names like DSCN_XXXX (where X = a number)...yeppers, there are plenty of CP images floating around with those identifiers...sure, there are WAY more innocent images with those titles, but the CP ones do exist...

when one finds a user who is sharing CP with those types of titles they are most likely one of the 'real' pedophiles...the best course of action one can take against such people is to take a screenshot and make a report to one of the above links making sure to give an exact time/date of the event...many make false statements about the ability to ID somebody by their IP addy...well, when one has the exact time/date of that addy its owner at that moment is identifiable...by taking the screenshot and sending it off you are giving that agency the proof needed to do something about it...

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turn off your im 's that is an entering point to see your stuff

I believe that yes child porn should be fought. This sounds like a long hard battle. I think there are too many things that are covered by this anti-child porn law nest egg. Dont get me wrong we shoul fight it. My problem is this.... if cartoon images can be consideded pornograpphic and such I think many cartoons that play on tv right now would have to change. Advertising, does not use nude children but they can he highly suggestive still. Most of Japan's anime then would be considered child porn even if there is no nudity. I feel we need to better determine what is and what is not considered child porn.

cartoon images or that cgi stuff here in england is on the same charge as possessing indecent images, the whole charge is, possession of indecent images/psuedo images.

Most English speaking countries still suffer with the Victorian era moralities which says sex is dirty. Any sex. A female would "submit" only because she wanted children.

Not surprisingly a lot of prostitutes were in business back then.

The point being that English speaking countries can get carried away with this stuff. In England cartoons directed at adults are pornographic? Normally I'd say "Give me a break" but I just read about some guys and gals at a night time adult Halloween party on a public street in the U.S. decided to run around in the nude with pumpkins on their heads.

Not only did they get arrested the prosecutor wants them stigmatized as a "sex criminal" which means a public record will exist for the rest of their life.

Once a year a bunch of local drunks leave their tavern and moon a passing passenger train. Its been a tradition for years involving both male and female and no "private parts" have been seen. Yet they faced arrest last year.

Now I can understand a $100 fine and even probation with the record erased at the end of that but "sex pervert"? Give me a break.

Have a look @ Shareaza. We have this for ages now...

Are you a cop? Are you involved? Where did you get this information?

Little question: Does child porn has to be video or picture content? If I think of all the erotic ebooks that are available for download... half of them would be rated as child porn, because they in fact tell the 'storries' of children... (really goes on my nerves always getting storries of children when downloading that sort of content ) And what about audio books?
And by the way: Can teen model galeries (for example presenting bathing suites) be considered as child porn or not? - true, you don't really see something, but still, there are the parts you *imgine*, if you understand what I want to say... EDIT: Seems that this has not been clear enough: The idea I had in mind when I wrote this sentence down was about some advertisement from a store that was included in the weekly advertisemt package we get by post.

I think the current legal sittuation is not clear enough... There is a vaste shardy area between legality and illegality. Boarders should be more clearly defined...

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AussieguyThe authorities don't chase downloaders.

Just erase it. To make sure I don't accidently upload any I don't allow uploading of any video files I haven't reviewed first.

Its good that people recognize that accidential downloading of child porn is not only possible its practically inevitable if you download enough porn.

That's doesn't make you a pervert. It shows you're a human

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Hey Let me settle something for you about child porn watching and dowload. Most of all the child porn for you to download is put there by law enforcement!!!!! If you download it they are able to track it. They watch to see if you are downloading more. Why you might ask because some people download porn and by mistake sometimes download child porn. They also know if you delete it and if you download more. They are watching and go after the people who need to be stopped! Trust me it is all taken care off!