This case is happening in Australia but it has implications for people in the UK where precedents can be set in Commonwealth countries;
reported before: a man who accesses a similar site to youtube, has been charged with "
accessing child abuse images" by re-posting a video of a Russian performer swinging a baby. Millions around the world do what this elderly man has done..but he faces a sentence of up to 10 years.
You can imagine-it's almost destroyed this man and his family and he's had to mortage his home for legal fees. This is authority gone mad and police attempting to see where the law goes by battering an example into pieces :
Baby swinging video case warning
Asher Moses
March 10, 2009 - 12:09PM
The lawyer representing an Australian charged for republishing, on a video-sharing site, a video of a man swinging a baby around like a rag doll says that if the case proceeds every Australian who surfs the net could be vulnerable to police prosecution.
Chelsea Emery, of Ryan and Bosscher Lawyers in Maroochydore, represents Chris Illingworth, who was charged with accessing and uploading child abuse material.
Illingworth, 61, published the three-minute clip on Liveleak, a site similar to YouTube but focused on news and current events.
www.smh.com.au/news/home/technology/baby...0/1236447185321.html
## I've heard anecdotially several times of instances where child porn has been implanted on a person's video via innocent looking emails with 'worms' that spread like a virus through address books. Try explaining that to M'Lud !
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