[MLB-WIRELESS] Impact of New Legislation?

[Devon Starbuck]

I suspect you would not have a problem, as it applies equally to
yourself as it does your ISP, and often the numerous companies that
supply bandwidth to your ISP. I'ts intention I believe is to stop the
promotion of it and the exploitation of children. Unless you engage in
this, somebody who exploits your network without your knowledge wpould
obviously be in breach of the law, but not necessarily yourself.

Use of common sense in these areas is essential, and any breach of these
laws, as soon as detected, should be reported.

Regards

Devon Starbuck

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From: owner-melbwireless at wireless.org.au
[mailto:owner-melbwireless at wireless.org.au] On Behalf Of John Dalton
Sent: Wednesday, 21 May 2003 11:48 PM
To: melbwireless at wireless.org.au
Subject: [MLB-WIRELESS] Impact of New Legislation?


The ABC is reporting that
the Federal Government has recently
drafted legislation to explicity
prohibit the posession and transmission
of child pornography on the Internet
(turns out it wasn't illegal until now).

http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/s860061.htm

Does anyone have any clue how this legislation
will impact on community networks?  Does
'posession' include having a copy in a cache?
What happens if someone else's traffic passes
through your equipment and gets cached on the
way?  What happens if the traffic is encrypted
so you don't even have a way of knowing what
is cached?

Personally I suspect the average law enforcement
officer probably wouldn't know what a cache is and
would see the mere presence of such material
as 'posession'.

Does anyone have any answers?

Regards
John

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