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"SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Police may search computer hard drives for child pornography if their owners subscribe to Web sites selling the images, a U.S. appeals court ruled on Thursday. There is a "fair probability" customers of child pornography Web sites receive or download the illegal images, opening the door for police searches, according to the ruling by the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals."

http://today.reuters.com/news/newsarticle.aspx?type=internetNews&storyid=2006-03-09T223543Z_01_N09200034_RTRUKOC_0_US-CRIME-CHILDPORN.xml&rpc=22

I guess I can see the logic there? That seems like probable cause. However, what if you don't "subscribe," but, for instance, someone plays a joke on you by subscribing you, etc? Seems like there are holes in it.

3/9/2006 6:10:46 PM

nevermind, it got fixed.

[Edited on March 9, 2006 at 6:17 PM. Reason : ]

3/9/2006 6:15:34 PM

If someone subscribes me to a child porn site as a joke, they'd better leave the country. They might as well steal my own gun and use it to kill someone.