Comment Re:well... (Score 1) 774
My Norwegian is pretty bad and my English is even worse, but I'll attempt to translate the relevant parts, because I'm bored and someone might find it interesting:
Time after time a father of young children from Lillehammer logged onto the Internet to look at child porn. He has told the police he did this intentionally. He was driven by curiousity and excitement. Some of the pictures were of very young children. The pictures showed adults and children together or children alone engaged in sexual activities.
The police have documented that he looked at at least 110 pictures, because these were found stored in his browser cache. They managed to track him down, because he had used his credit card to pay in the porn store online. He even admits this. Yet, the court still found him not guilty.
The reason is a hole in the law: Only possession is illegal. Since he has only looked at the child porn, that isn't enough. He must have physically downloaded it to his computer. But since the browser does this automatically for all images you look at while surfing, legally this doesn't count.
A court ruling from the year 2000 determined that it is not a criminal possession to look at child porn without downloading it to your computer.
[A representative from] "Save the Children" says to the local paper that a new proposal now going to the justice department will be able to strengthen the legislation in this area. This could happen before 2011.