Charges aren't convictions.

Why man why? Why not just sell regular ass legal age porn? I feel bad for that studio, their morale has got to be really low.

This thread just proves that. I'm glad someone beat me to the point though. Until he's proven guilty, most of you are just talking out your asses, and contributing to the ruination of a potentially innocent man's life.

This may be the first time I heard someone from the Game Industry being charged with child pornography charges. No matter if the guy is guilty or not, the public opinion of him and of the studio, which wasn't in a good place to begin with must be in the gutter by now. This is bad news all around and the only hope they could have at this point is that the guy will be proven innocent.

I think this Danish movie "Jagten" talks about this subject quite well and really illustrates the irrationality of society when charges of under age sexual acts are brought up.

If anyone is interested i highly recommend it: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2106476/?ref_=sr_1

Innocent until proven a hoser.

@owack6: We truly are living in the age of Paedogeddon.

We're all Paedos until proven innocent.

Well that's unfortunate.

@fourwude said:

That's how I feel about the upcoming online porn legislation in the UK. A nice broad brush we're getting painted with just because we can't get laid.

Wait, what? The first I've heard of any of that.

@artemesia said:

http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-06/14/parental-filtering-industry-standard

In short, Parliament is pushing through legislation that'll require ISPs in the UK to block porn by default for new and existing customers, meaning you'll have to contact your ISP to have them remove the block (we have this on phones already and it even goes so far as to block things like Urban Dictionary).

In theory, it's supposed to impede various forms of child abuse, although it smacks of asking corporations to do your parenting for you.

Considering that its becoming a growing habit of western country's to ban even hentai as a possession of CP i'l just wait till we actually know what he is being charged with. Hell grabbing excessive amounts of bikini pics of 17 year olds from facebook can potentially get you arrested in this day and age.

Most of the damage has likely already been done as hes immediately shunned by friends, colleagues and family and can likely say goodbye to his game developing career just out of fear of being associated with the guy.

I hate pornography almost as much as I hate pedophiles. Seems this studio can't catch a break.

@owack6: +!, very interesting film. Don't think i've ever gotten so mad by the stupidity of fictitious characters before.

As much as I believe it's a complete violation of privacy and the government overstepping its bounds, I do want to be able to call up my ISP and tell them to turn on the porn hose. Turn it up all the way. I got a whole weekend to fill.

And if the allegations are true then double middle fingers to this developer. Double middle fingers and a lot of picking up trash on the side of the road.

So that's why Too Human was pulled off the market. Makes sense.

The one thing prisoners are really good at is giving pederasts a nice warm welcome. Don't drop the soap!

Hee dyack buddies, now wonder it doesnt surprise me.

What? That logic is insane.

It's annoying, because (like the DRM argument) it's basically putting hassle on everyone for something a minority do, and I don't think it'll work from either angle.

1. I'm confident teenagers know a lot more about the internet than their parents do, so it'll take them mere minutes to get around it. Are we supposed to believe no one will ever use a VPN or a proxy browser, or should those be blocked too?

2. I imagine if you're of the inclination to download child porn, the embarrassment of calling up your ISP just to enable access to 'regular' porn is a small annoyance, considering you'd then get access to the 'caffeine-free' stuff and people would be none the wiser of your intentions.

3. Since logically this automated system would require records of some sort, it's not much of a stretch to picture your ISP essentially holding a database wherein every person is a potential sex offender. One day that'll work out really badly for someone who didn't deserve it.

Finally, and this is a problem in legislation everywhere, but it really bothers me when this sort of thing is insisted on by people who don't even know how it works. Google doesn't own the internet and neither does my ISP, nor is it either's responsibility to police it. My ISP is a doorman, not a curator.

I think this guy just got caught downloading porno. I don't think he made any or sold any. Different severity between both. However, I'm not sure if punishment differs by much by law.

This guy is fucked beyond belief though. Not very smart to put everything on the line like that.

He should have just watched anime. lol

@the_laughing_man: it was dead from the moment dyack name was on it

He obviously drew the line at anime.

They kinda do. Hence why it's not the police sentencing people.

"just download"? The reason why governments crack down so hard on people "just downloading" child porn is because they fuel demand for new material. By watching it you are a major part of the problem.

Yep. It's perpetuating the problem. And the charges state that he was making child pornography available. Whether that means he made it himself or was a distributor of some sort is an entire extra layer on the case.

What if you're watching a video of a 17 year old girl and her 17 year old boyfriend having sex? Is that CP?

I personally enjoy big breasted milfs but I'm curious.

"Dude you can't say hi to kids anymore, I love kids!"

precursor games going down the shithole even more

Assuming the legal age of consent is 18 then, Yes! That totally is illegal.And you can triple you're punishment if you leave the download in your torrents folder because hey, now you are spreading CP

Second thought that popped up in my head.

First thought was "if it's true, show that fucker was real Hell is."

However, innocent until proven guilty.

He likely just used a torrent client or similar p2p service in which any downloaded file is automatically available for upload to other users.
For the law this is just as bad as if you were the original sharer.

I'll bet back in the days of downloading porn through Shareaza and Kazaa people got more than they bargained for once or twice.

Yeah that was my assumption. But if he was making and distributing it (They said they seized numerous computers, though many of those admittedly could be work PCs) then it's far, far worse.

Man this is incredibly fucked up.

Ugh, I remember Kazaa downloads giving you porn instead of intended downloads. A wild time back then.

@truthtellah: Oh Christ. Fucking Kazaa talk about a relic from the early 00's.

That's a bit weird to say, he wasn't tricked into watching child porn or something like that. Allegedly.

I'm not going to judge the guy until he's proven guilty

In regards to confusion about the "my computer was hijacked" defense: Actual personal computer hijacking in the manner in which I think some of you are referring to it in this thread is pretty rare. There is one much more plausible scenario for a user to unknowingly (well kinda) allow other users to access illegal content through his system. I'm not sure how familiar the public is with how VPN's work? Long story short, if you are a supremely trusting person who believes strongly in the preservation of internet semi-anonymity, you can volunteer your system to act as an end access point for the network. The last access point in a VPN network runs a normal internet connection with no encryption, which means law enforcement does have access to information about that system through its ISP with a court order (depending on country of origin). There have been several cases of people running VPN end point servers being raided by law enforcement and equipment seizure carried out. If any of you are familiar with Wiki Leaks and the roundabout ways they keep their content online, this is similar. The shitty thing about preservation of internet anonymity -which has many righteous uses for journalists, law enforcement themselves, military, and residents of internet censored countries- is that they can, and are, used to facilitate criminal operations. Which makes a resourceful criminal difficult to catch, not to mention the red tape horror involved with international criminal cases.

The existence of VPN's is a tough issue for me. There is good that does come from them. But in turn... they open the door to a whole mess of horrible atrocity. I don't know. I don't know what to do about it. :(

Ah, yes, this is an additional point of common confusion with the law. According to the article:

McCulloch is charged with one count each of possession of child pornography, making child pornography available, and accessing child pornography.

In layman's terms, respectively:

Charge 1: saving a copy of illegal content to his personal hard drive(s)

Charge 2: this one means posting illegal content from his personal computer back up to the internet. In this case, and with this wording, it means he did not personally create what he allegedly posted, otherwise the charge list here would include several additional entries.

Charge 3: willfully looking up illegal content with full understanding that he allegedly knew exactly what he was looking for.

Jesus Christ. Having Denis Dyack head this studio was already bad reputation, this is just disgusting (if he's indeed guilty). Not that the other people in the studio should be affiliated with this. Just saying, it seems Dyack's studios are somewhat cursed to bad rep.

@peasantabuse: So is a naked morbidly obese woman with her lower end in the air shooting a fountain of diarrhea out of her ass and into her mouth and then proceeding to drink her own feces. People actually like this kind of stuff, but the important thing is that nobody gets hurt, so everyone just leaves them alone.

I highly suggest none of you ever read what I have placed here.

Damn baby you just gave me a pop nostalgia shock

Kazaa: masturbation may not make you blind, but it'll sure fuck your computer up!