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by BeetleB 1193 days ago
> If you want to be safe from liability, don't watch illegal/immoral content. You will be fine.

This is naive. I don't necessarily know that the content is illegal until I've started playing it. By that point I may have already shared it.

Same issue with any p2p, I guess. You could start downloading a file with a harmless name and later discover it was a fake name.

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In either case, I don't see any intent and therefore not any crime.

I don't think that's naive, considering that after reporting adult sites with obvious CP, the sites are still up after several years.

> In either case, I don't see any intent and therefore not any crime.

Jurisdictions vary in how the justice system treats intent. You do not want to rely on lack of intent to get off the hook.