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Originally Posted by Graham
Thinking about this some more, there are, unfortunately, a couple of drawbacks that come to mind:
1) Just "handing over your hard drive" is not as simple as it sounds. Even if the authorities were to take a perfect copy and return it with the offending material deleted, such things tend to take a *very* long time and, in the mean time, the user is effectively without a computer.
Given that computers are becoming more and more used (or even required) in day to day activities, this would not be an option, for instance were I to hand over my HDD (NB all the porn on my computer involves adults, thank you very much!) it would cripple my business because I do all my invoicing, billing, stock control etc on it and, even if I had an entirely separate business computer, the authorities would undoubtedly demand to see *all* my drives, CDs, floppies etc to make sure I'm not keeping a stash whilst ostensibly putting my hands up and asking for help.
2) The "further investigation of others in the chain" sounds very much like a "Prisoners Dilemma" situation whereby if nobody says *anything*, everyone gets away with it.
Ok, yes, they should go after those who actually run the websites etc that *distribute* the material and try to find those who actually commit the abuse, but I'm not sure that chasing the "small fry" would either be a good idea or a good usage of resources.
PS thanks for the positive Rep point, Sociable!
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Am I right in suggesting the time for the amnesty is a openly pre-defined date? In that case you have time to back up your stuff and hand in the hard drive, but why not simply delete the offending images, the only thing that would make a difference is if a raid was planned a few days later leaving the images readily recoverable?
Would they record names and addresses on this amnesty? If they were recorded as to have handed in the disk - and then sublequently not raided they could just have a copy.