<p>Nobody is closing your access to the internet.</p>
<p>You are free to leave your access point open, just as you are free to leave your car unlocked with the keys inside.</p>
<p>Just don't be surprised when the police investigate you as a potential suspect when your car is spotted as a getaway vehicle in a robbery, taking your car away in order to perform a full forensic analysis whilst they attempt to find out the identities of the real criminals, and clear YOUR name in the process.</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Apr 30, 2011 4:12 PM, "Sergiusz Pawlowicz" <<a href="mailto:sergiusz@pawlowicz.name">sergiusz@pawlowicz.name</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution">> On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 16:03, Paul Tew <<a href="mailto:binarybod@gmail.com">binarybod@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>> On Sat, 2011-04-30 at 12:37 +0100, Sergiusz Pawlowicz wrote:<br>>><br>>> On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 11:41, Paul Tew <<a href="mailto:binarybod@gmail.com">binarybod@gmail.com</a><br>>>> wrote:<br>
>><br>>>> You just need to be aware that if someone uses your IP address to download<br>>>> some unlawful material then the police would be reasonable in suspecting<br>>>> that you did it.<br>
>><br>>> "unlawful materials" - i have heard it many time during communism in poland.<br>>><br>>> I used the term 'unlawful material' in a deliberate attempt to avoid using<br>>> terminology that is pretty distasteful to a great number of people (hence<br>
>> the reason it is unlawful). I certainly don't use it as a euphemism for<br>>> anything the police or other instrument of officialdom might consider to be<br>>> subversive (which is what I think you were inferring). If you want to know<br>
>> the kind of thing I mean, then the principle piece of legislation in England<br>>> and Wales is Section 1 of The Protection of Children Act 1978<br>>> (<a href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1978/37">http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1978/37</a> ) although there are other bits<br>
>> of legislation in a similar vein.<br>>><br>>> Usually when people see for the first time, the kind of thing I have to look<br>>> at on a daily basis, it makes them feel sick.<br>> <br>> It is pathetic, when the government kills children every day in<br>
> Afghanistan, for ten years right now, that the system is designed to<br>> protect children. And that few sick people are used to close the<br>> freedom to access the internet.<br>> <br>> S.<br>> <br>> _______________________________________________<br>
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