There were no published opinions yesterday, but there are some good ones today. I'm also in Iceland on a family vacation, so my posts may be a bit late this week. It's now almost midnight here, for example, but on the upside, it's still light outside. Sun will also rise again at 3:10 a.m. here. Crazy.
Meanwhile, the Ninth Circuit issued this opinion today, which provides some interesting detail on how federal officers look for child pornography on peer-to-peer networks. They don't even need to download the file to figure out that it's kiddie porn; they just look for specific hash marks on known child porn files to see if you have any. Yet another reason -- and there are billions of them already -- not to download or view child pornography.
The other interesting thing I noticed about the opinion was the sheer volume of kiddie porn Mr. Johnsen had on his computer. There were 140,000 images and 900 videos.
Who even has time to look at all this?! Or needs/wants it? It just seems excessive even on its own terms.
I'm also stunned that 140,000 images of child pornography even exists. Much less that one person could amass such a huge (and incredibly illegal) collection.
Maybe the child pornography industry is simply much, much larger than I ever even considered.
If so, yet another depressing commentary on the world.
