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Barmymoo:
The problem with trying to say "people who benefit from seeing these photos" is that it's a very subjective thing. I might see them by mistake (someone sends me them in an email, for instance, and they load without me knowing what they were) and I wouldn't feel I'd benefited from it, whereas someone else might get the same email and enjoy seeing the photos. It wouldn't be fair for us to be legally differentiated as we've done the same thing, but by your definition we should be.

You can't help what happens to you by accident. The receipt of stolen goods laws, at least in the UK, have a hefty dose of "if you should have known, then you are deemed to have known" - for instance, if I buy a TV for £400 from a second-hand electronics store that hasn't got a reputation for being sketchy, and it turns out to be stolen, I'd be in a very different position than if I bought a TV for £40 from a guy in the street. The "man on the Clapham omnibus" would know that you can't get a TV for £40 without something dubious going on, and therefore I should also have known that.

LeeC:
I am just going to place this here instead of the pointless thread.

Aimless:
To some extent HurrPo's being a little hypocritical, but only to a small extent, unless they've been posting illegally obtained nude private photos of celebs against their wishes.

I'm trying to figure out if the appropriate comparison is to downloading pirated music/movies/books/software, or to pictures of sexual assaults eg. on minors. I think it's closer to the former with an added element of being not just a little skeevy.

sitnspin:
I'm calling bullshit, LeeC. I don't buy that celebrities are role models and even if they are, none of the people who images were stolen did anything to be ashamed of. Just because you don't want everyone to see you do something, that doesn't be it is something you are not proud of. I also don't buy that taking a picture inherently comes with the expectation that it will be released to the public.

Barmymoo:
I agree completely. I was trying to figure out what I felt was off about that and sitnspin has nailed it. There's nothing wrong with having naked photos of yourself, or giving them to someone who you trust. There is absolutely something wrong with hacking into private files in order to steal naked photos of someone else and giving them to anyone who wants them.

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