So if anyone asks you if you download Porn at any point of your life, what is your answer?
If it’s YES.
Then you’re in for some futuristic T-R-O-U-B-L-E my friend, a trouble that can get you to prison for 20 years, even you say you download it ‘accidentally’. Sounds, exaggerated? Maybe! But not for this 22 year old guy from Sacramento.
Mathew White is now having the biggest shock of his life by admitting that he was diddling with Limewire (A P2P file-sharing free app) to download some exquisite porn – In return he came across with a smutty movie entitled ‘Girls Gone Wild’ – a popular adult college movie that is induced with highly pornographic material. Although on Mathew’s statement he said.
“It didn’t appeal to me,” he said. “I was looking for women my age, so I just wanted to download ‘College Girls Gone Wild’ and accidentally downloaded underage pornography.” Matt claims he quickly erased the files.
It wasn’t enough to get him on a clean slate position. A year later, FBI investigators visit again his home and scrutinize his computer to see remnants of any porn-related material ‘stucked’. At first the investigators couldn’t see any, but soon they uncovered buried images deep in Mathew’s hard drive(s). Matt retorted with question to the investigators like
“I asked them, ‘Where did you get that? I don’t remember that.’ I asked them, ‘Could I access that if I wanted to?’” Matt said. “They said no.”
However, it seems that’s not enough to save Mr. White from going to prison. According to CBS13
Matt is facing 20 years in prison for possessing child pornography, Matt is pleading guilty on the advice of his public defender in hopes of getting a three and a half year sentence. He will also serve 10 years probation and have to register as a sex offender for the rest of his life.
The FBI are silent for this case, although they gave a sidenote for the netizens that in case ‘you’ download something that has porn related-material in it, the said user must call the authorities immediately. They may confiscate your computer, but it’s better than going to prison.
So what do you think, is ‘The strange porn case of Mr. Mathew White’ made you scratch your head and say the words, “TOO HARSH” ? Let us know with your comments.
Note: The picture above for girls gone wild came from filmmagic. Only an edited photo
Updates: Here’s the whole-interview from CBS13 Courtesy of Liveleak
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February 6th, 2010 at 10:56 pm
RETARDED
February 17th, 2010 at 11:00 pm
This article was deceptive. He is not serving time for downloading porn. He was charged for down loading CHILD PORNOGRAPY. Big difference. The other stupid thing he did was use Lime Wire.
Fred
(down loading legal porn since 1996)
April 22nd, 2010 at 12:08 am
Gotta love how he can be looking at 20 freaking years when a lot of DISGUSTING pigs who rape women and children seem to get less than that. So to the guys here who look at porn, get a girlfriend and truly ask yourselves if you are bisexual rather than straight considering you see a lot of dick in pornos and that gets you off.
May 8th, 2010 at 7:02 am
Limewire? What's that? Porn? I have no idea what this illegal filesharing and CP is that you speak of. Nope. No idea at all.
What's that? Oh no officer, I've never touched the stuff… never even heard of it…
May 8th, 2010 at 10:41 am
"[He will ] have to register as a sex offender for the rest of his life" is a blatant proof that your country is becoming increasingly crazy. Sorry for the Godwin, but that's pure fascism.
July 6th, 2010 at 8:23 pm
Oh god, Maybe i should start burn all my hdd !!!
July 31st, 2010 at 11:13 pm
What's worse is that some people sometimes download about 10 movies at once, watch one or two, then delete all the movies without watching the other 8. In a case like this, you don't know what you downloaded.
That could explain the part where Matt said he never even saw some of the stuff the FBI found.
Also, considering he's going to jail for this and that's how the FBI handles his case, I don't think it's even safe to report accidental downloads of illegal pornography.
"They might take away your computer" ? Yeah right! Don't even hope to get off that easily on Christmas Eve!
Most people working for agencies in the USA such as the FBI, CIA, NSA, DEA and others are just power-addicts who believe they are perfect citizens themselves and who look down on every one else.
In their mind, there are two types of people:
1) the good guys who never make mistakes, and for that reason they all want and do work for the FBI/CIA/etc.
and 2) the people who don't work for the FBI/CIA/etc which logically means they are bad guys who don't care about the law and they're like that because they are low-lives with inferior genes.
I don't live and the USA and I don't hate the USA; but it's increasingly becoming a facist state. I hope people realize it soon enough. People waged war for their rights and freedom over things like that in the past, and today it's a miracle if people even protest.
August 5th, 2010 at 2:16 pm
It's also hard to know what your computer is caching when you are generally surfing. I mean, it will basically drop on your hard drive any image that appears on any webpage you visit. So does that mean that you're downloading child pornography if someone embedded it on a page you visited, and you didn't know what was on it?
Short answer is. Never give probable cause. If you're questioned, say you can't recall, or that you never did anything like that. And that yes, you do mind if they take a quick look.
September 14th, 2010 at 5:38 am
In order to search his computer they needed to be on his case about something in the first place. What did he do that got the FBI after him in the first place? Huh? Can’t be too much of a law abiding citizen if the FBI was looking into him in the first place. He must have committed a PUBLICLY VISIBLE offense, such that someone someone picked up the phone and dialed 911. ANYBODY can lie. And criminals DO lie. They would claim they didn’t mean to download something, when they REALLY DID MEAN TO. It is not up to the police or FBI to determine innocence or guilt. It is up to the court to determine this. So of course he’s charged and faces possibly the punishments listed in this article. However until he’s convicted, IF he’s convicted, he has NOT been found guilty, as stated in the constitution “innocent till proven guilty”. If his statements check out to be true in the investigation, that he really didn’t mean to download those pictures, then he’ll be found by the court to be “not guilty” of the charges, and therefore not be sentenced to any punishment.
November 15th, 2010 at 10:47 pm
I totally agree. The question I'm asking myself after reading the article is
1 – How did the FBI know that he was d/l any porn at all – let alone child porn
and
2 – What led the FBI to him in the first place
Unless law enforcement agents are using a crystal ball, has a rap sheet, or wanted on some other crime, law enforcement agencies cannot possibly know what you have on your computer
November 24th, 2010 at 9:09 am
Of course if the authorities have recieved complaints or tip offs regarding illegal files being shared / distributed, and have access to the server logs, or are in place monitoring those sharing said files with an ap like limewire, they'll have IP information to go on. no crystal ball required.
I seriously doubt he'll get anything like the quoted sentence, even if he was found guilty, but this kind of highly visible publicity is a great way of hopefully disuading other folk from taking their curiosity in such matters, to the next level.
December 20th, 2011 at 11:03 pm
Hi all.
I do not download porn from my house, it resolves the problem.
Child porn is disgusting, if someone likes it then he or she does not deserve to be in society.
December 21st, 2011 at 12:50 pm
I’m sure that such investigations wouldn’t involve the police using something like Limewire. That’s the software used by movie pirates, not the software used by cops. Cops have their own tools to investigate badguys. They don’t use the badguys’ own tools to investigate the badguys. They’d have something more hightech, like in the TV shows CSI or Law&Order. They’d have dedicated police investigations software that did the same task as Limewire, but would would generate forensically-sound log files. Limeware isn’t built with forensics in mind. Forensic software would be used instead.
Also it’s unlikely that merely an IP address poppng up once in a log would be sufficient evidence for an arrest warrant. They’d have to prove intent to get an arrest warrant, meaning that they would need to see a pattern of behavior for a given IP address involving child porn in order to be convinced that the person was intentionally searching for CP. They wouldn’t have arrested the guy just because one torrent he had had CP in it (especially given the fact that the torrent was for Girls Gone Wild, a legal porn film, so that it would be obvious his intent was to download GGW, not CP). At worst he was guilty of intentionally committing movie piracy.
My guess is he was wanted for other sex crimes possibly including CP, and a warrant was already out for his arrest, or at the very least he was a known pedo who had previous convictions for sex crimes. In other words, the guy is very much NOT the innocent man that this website is trying to portray him as.
I know for a fact that the police don’t just automatically know that you have committed an online crime. I have downloaded (and later deleted because I hadn’t payed for them) various movies (and yes they are legal movies, not CP) from torrents just to see what they look like to determine if they are worth buying. While I download movies I didn’t pay for, I already have committed piracy (although it probably shouldn’t count as that cause I just do it to see if I like the movie, not a permanent replacement for buying the movie), which from my understanding is also perused strongly by law enforcement. Yet I’ve never been arrested. I don’t have any past history with the law so they aren’t looking at me. Same thing with this guy. They don’t just magically know what he downloaded, unless he previously did something to get the law on his ass.
December 21st, 2011 at 12:55 pm
There are also ways to know what you are downloading. For example, as an anime fan I will usually download anime, but I always use uTorrrent software cause that lets me brows the file names of the files in the torrent and select the ones to download. I ALWAYS know what I’m downloading. If you just download random stuff, you are in danger, especially from malware, even more so than accidentally getting CP. Not knowing what you are downloading is a great way to get computer virus infections. Anyone who downloads stuff in bulk and doesn’t know what they are getting is a major N00B!
December 21st, 2011 at 1:01 pm
You should also realize he does have recourse on the sex offender registry part. There is a way to petition the court even after registering from what I’ve read, and request removal from the list of offenders, and he better have a good reason. And I think the fact he ran into it by accident (if that is the truth) is a good reason.