Viewing images accidentally is legal. But if you were told such-and-such URL contained illegal content, and you went there with the intention of reporting it, you have broken the law.
Instead of buying or renting a server farm (or using cloud-computing services), why not buy a botnet or build your own?
I'm going to sue!
But seriously, if we combine this with that recent request for help from the fellow whose name brings up a paedophile
What? So you go on assuming everybody's straight?
One thing I noticed when looking at the Virgin Killers page while it was being blocked was that it pretended to be a 404 error (a very unconvincing one). This is presumably part of their "don't alert people" ploy too, but it confounds the majority of people from being able to discover that it's being blocked.
I regularly use software with EULAs to which somebody else has agreed.
Does that mean I would be eligable to sue the company for something which the EULA-clicker supposedly no longer has the right to do?
And does it make a difference as to who owns the hardware? (i.e. sysadmin agreeing on a university computer, compared to a cat agreeing to something running on my hardware).
The top result for my name is a banjo-player!
"Look! There! Evil!.. pure and simple, total evil from the Eighth Dimension!" -- Buckaroo Banzai