I think if you went to the website specifically with the intention of viewing this material, you would be in an iffy position with regards to "posessing". If it's in your browser cache, do you not "possess" it?
Steve
On 4/7/06, Fred Bauder fredbaud@ctelco.net wrote:
The exact language in the protocol is that the following activities ought to be prohibited:
(c) Producing, distributing, disseminating, importing, exporting, offering, selling or possessing for the above purposes child pornography as defined in article 2.
Article 2:
(c) Child pornography means any representation, by whatever means, of a child engaged in real or simulated explicit sexual activities or any representation of the sexual parts of a child for primarily sexual purposes.
The claim that one is just researching pornography can only go so far, but viewing is not listed. I think the duty of the viewer is to recognize it "when they see it" and then refrain from doing such bad things as publishing it, disseminating it or downloading it.
Fred