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11/30/2008: "Remove sickos"

Deleting an image will be sufficient to prove you no longer "possess" it - unless you have the skill to recover it. In which case you could still be done: techies beware.

Two interesting features of this new law arise in respect of potential defences. The first is where the material in question is a BBFC classified film, that should be an absolute defence. However, if you extract images or sequences from that film, your defence may fall.

If, however, you enjoy gross mutilation in a non-sexual context, have no fear: this new legislation will not touch such classics as Saw, Saw II, Saw III etc.

Apparently extreme images are only dangerous if watched by sexual deviants: psychopaths and murderers are unaffected by them.

[ So people in the UK can look at anything, as long as they delete it before police sieze the evidence? It reminds me just a tad of how Catholics can sin all they want just as long as they repent just before they die. Really it should be certain kinds of people who are destroyed rather than certain kinds of images if we want to feel reasonably safe and avoid the sewer society. Anything else is putting the cart before the horse. ]

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/11/28/extreme_images/