Viewing vs. Downloading
Thursday, March 26th, 2009This is not a post on the stupidity of kids posting naked pictures of themselves on the Internet. This is on the stupidity of this line from this article.
It is not a crime to view the photos, Maer said, but it is illegal to download them.
By definition, if you are viewing a image in your browser you have downloaded it. It’s sitting in the cache of your browser, downloaded on to your computer. So if you view anything in your browser, you have downloaded it.
And what’s with kids these days? In my time we played spin-the-bottle and seven-minutes-in-heaven. Well, not me, but my friends did. Okay, they weren’t my friends, but I knew some kids who did.