I would say that most will agree with you. He crossed a line. Maybe when he gets sentenced we will find out why the pictures were never mentioned until recently. I get the feeling that there is more to this that we dont know yet.
The only media that seems to be covering here is his local paper. Considering what he has done, the media silence is very unusual
The main charge is the picts of real life kids. The game and the money from it is secondary. In years to come they will say, he had hundreds of picts, oh and he was also making a game. Aussies are said to be, per head of population among the biggest pirates so most people in Australia could not care less about him breaking some censorship law. He has picts of real kids...He is a rockspider zero sympathy. Australia`s censorship laws are going to get worse regarding these games and they will use him to do it
It's either ** or not, no shades of gray.
No, intelligent people don't do stuff knowing it's illegal, and having any ** while living in Australia is special kind of retarded.A selfie of a cute, flirty 15 year old girl flashing her perky teen titties is not the same as video of a 5 year old being violently raped. But both are treated the same, or almost the same, by law enforcement and the public. It's completely asinine. So, for intelligent people, there are, or should be, shades of gray. But the law is made to satisfy stupid people who can't or won't think in nuanced ways.
Yes, it is stupid virtual is illegal but it still is. Also, from what I see here he got caught with real ** so that is no longer the matter of "stupid Australia, they arrest for drawings".Not sure the penalties for actual C/P are any worse than they are in the U.S., U.K., Canada or anyplace else whose legal codes descend from British legal codes. The problem with Australia is they conflate victimless virtual C/P (drawn, rendered, AI or otherwise) with actual C/P made from actual victims, refusing to make a basic distinction between fantasy and reality that can be made by, ironically, a child.
I mean the reason why he got arrested in the first place was because of the game and in pretty much every news article the main thing they reference is the game. That is why I said it's the main charge. Also in australia they don't make the distinction between fictional and real content so legally making the game is as bad or maybe even worste than just having images of real kids.
A selfie of a cute, flirty 15 year old girl flashing her perky teen titties is not the same as video of a 5 year old being violently raped. But both are treated the same, or almost the same, by law enforcement and the public. It's completely asinine. So, for intelligent people, there are, or should be, shades of gray. But the law is made to satisfy stupid people who can't or won't think in nuanced ways.
As far as most are concerned, until the picts were mentioned, yes the game etc was the main charge, but now its different. Lawyers, like people here, can argue bout the game all they want. They can not argue bout the picts. Think of this. The picts were never mentioned until AFTER he accepted the deal
Keep in mind that in Australia things like underage girls in bathers sitting in a provocative way is considered child abuse material as is an over age woman who looks under age in images.
I actually don't remember but that is a very good point
All the articles that I have read say child abuse material
So basically non nude images, or images of women who look underage, that can be used to make him look worse to bolster their charges around the game.
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