Don't click that link!! It might be the FBI !!

[40daws]

http://www.news.com/8301-13578_3-9899151-38.html

Excerpt:

The implications of the FBI's hyperlink-enticement technique are sweeping. Using the same logic and legal arguments, federal agents could send unsolicited e-mail messages to millions of Americans advertising illegal narcotics or child pornography--and raid people who click on the links embedded in the spam messages. The bureau could register the "unlawfulimages.com" domain name and prosecute intentional visitors. And so on.



So now you don't have to drive hundreds of miles to be on DATELINE: To Catch a Predator and meet Chris Hansen,click a link and the FBI will come get you. Read the article, the FBI does not have to stop at child porn.

[altalti]

that's a little crazy when will it stop.

[shade]

So if someone steals your password to your email account and opens those links, you'll be cuffed the next day, serve time, and be considered as a sex offender?

Thats ridiculous. The government is once again trying to flex its limitations and before you know it, they can frame you for something you haven't done. This is ridiculous. Just another stepping stone...

Edit: In addition, hackers can put any person behind bars as they please by going through this process.

[projekt_s13]

So if someone steals your password to your email account and opens those links, you'll be cuffed the next day, serve time, and be considered as a sex offender?

Thats ridiculous. The government is once again trying to flex its limitations and before you know it, they can frame you for something you haven't done. This is ridiculous. Just another stepping stone...

No because they log your ip address so "your friend" will still get the blame.

[shade]

If a person really hates you and wants to put your ass behind bars, they can just break in your house and do that process in your own home without knowing it.

Or they can do it the easy way by hacking through your wireless network. Double, triple, or whatever firewall ain't shit. Thats easy. It's all a matter of stealing IP address.

[Pank]

i dont even have time to explain why this isn't legally binding. if you hit their site once, they wont do shit to you. I'm sure it has to have the proper referrers etc etc

Basically this is retarded, they go after members of pay sites, because they're the ones generating the demand for CP, since they're paying for it. Clicking one link isn't putting anyone in jail

When anyone visited the upload.sytes.net site, the FBI recorded the Internet Protocol address of the remote computer. There's no evidence the referring site was recorded as well, meaning the FBI couldn't tell if the visitor found the links through Ranchi or another source such as an e-mail message.

With the logs revealing those allegedly incriminating IP addresses in hand, the FBI sent administrative subpoenas to the relevant Internet service provider to learn the identity of the person whose name was on the account--and then obtained search warrants for dawn raids.
ie "hey dude, check out this sweet drift video > link to fake CP < ", and now you're fucked!

hahahahha, i would love to see how much of those cases actually came up with a conviction.