US court says just viewing child porn is not a crime
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Cached images not evidence A US court has said the existence of child pornography images in the cache of a man's computer did not mean that man had committed a crime under state law. The Court of Appeals in Georgia has reversed the man's conviction.â¦
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A federal court rules that the government doesn't need probable cause to obtain a warrant allowing it to use a person's cell phone to track his past movements.
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By SUSAN M. COVER Blethen Maine News Service  It's illegal for certain convicted sex offenders to visit Web sites that are popular with children.  But a lawmaker from Presque Isle  says a lack of money makes it hard to enforce the law.  Rep.
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The Supreme Court on Tuesday sidestepped a dispute over whether Internet providers can be forced to identify subscribers illegally swapping music and movies online.    The subject, however, may be back at the court soon...
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A federal judged ruled that the Web site was not protected by the First Amendment because it incited criminal conduct.
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The 6th Circuit tosses out federal law saying Americans taking naughty digital photos of themselves and a willing adult partner must make those images available for the attorney general's perusal -- or to go prison for up to five years.
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A prison sentence of more than 24 years is not excessive for a man who used the Internet to seduce an FBI agent who portrayed herself as a 14-year-old girl, a U.S. appeals court ruled on Friday.
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PHILADELPHIA -- A Pennsylvania law aimed at stopping Internet pornography is getting no love from the court system. A federal judge threw out the law, which would have required Internet service providers to block Web sites that contain child pornography.
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A federal appeals court yesterday ruled that two developers of file-sharing programs are not legally liable for the copyrighted content their users swap online.
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Much ado about nothing? Swedish prosecutors have launched another invesigation into suspected child pornography, shared through the controversial bittorrent site The Pirate Bay. However, this time police aren't theatening to blacklist the Swedish website. "The Pirate Bay are not suspects," prosecutor Cathrine RudstrÃ¶m told Swedish newssite The Local. Police have requested logs from The Pirate Bay, including IP addresses.â¦
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Justice Department attorneys, defending a law aimed at keeping online pornography from minors, argued that software filters often block valid sites &#151; on gay rights or sexual health, for example &#151; that teens might seek out.
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To: LEGAL AFFAIRS EDITORS  Contact: U.S. Department of Justice, +1-202-514-2008   WASHINGTON, March 7 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A federal jury convicted a St. Croix, V.I. man of two counts of child pornography, Assistant Attorney General Alice S.
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Imagine. As of today you are able to burn a movie on your PC   without worrying about it turning into a federal case.
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A photograph owned by Elton John which  was seized by police at a gallery as part of a child  pornography probe is not an indecent image, the Crown  Prosecution Service (CPS) said on Friday.
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The Supreme Court on Tuesday sidestepped a dispute over whether Internet providers can be forced to identify subscribers illegally swapping music and movies online. -AP
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Truly decentralised peer-to-peer (P2P) software can&#39;t be held accountable for its misuse, according to a US federal appeals court.
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The California Supreme Court said Internet publishers could not be held liable if they posted defamatory comments written by others.