There was a similar case in Australia earlier this year:

http://www.areanews.com.au/news/local/news/general/griffith-man-guilty-on-child-porn-charges/1403310.aspx

Different laws obviously but this bloke was found guilty.

Could a series of interconnected wi-fi networks provide an alternate internet distribution to the telecom companies? I've been wondering about this since I read a piece suggesting you could make your own radio network by exploiting the short-distance broadcasting you're allowed to do by developing a series of receiver/booster stations. In Australia there's been a lot of debate about how and who is going to replace the ageing copper telephone network with something better suited to our 21st century needs. So I'm wondering if you had enough people with open wi-fi networks receiving then boosting, could it be possible to avoid having a telecom company own the new network since the government is loath to get back into the business of anything other than regulating a network?