Amazon is selling a book for pedophiles

[peanutbex]

Apparently the author said on CNN "pedophiles love children and would never hurt them". Have child protection checked this guy out? He sounds dangerous to me...

[Drolefille]

Originally Posted by peanutbex

Apparently the author said on CNN "pedophiles love children and would never hurt them". Have child protection checked this guy out? He sounds dangerous to me...

Pretty classic pedophile attitude. NAMBLA would be proud. But just as people are public members of NAMBLA, it's not illegal to be a pedophile, just to act on it.

[PiKA2001]

http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/12/20/...ex.html?hpt=T2

The man behind a controversial book considered a "how-to" guide for pedophiles was arrested in Colorado, officials in Florida said Monday.
"You cannot engage or depict children in a harmful relationship," said Polk County, Florida, Sheriff Grady Judd as he described the Florida obscenity statute that officials used to charge Philip Greaves with distribution of obscene material depicting minors engaged in harmful conduct.
The self-published author was arrested in Pueblo, Colorado, on a Florida felony warrant after undercover detectives in Polk County purchased and received a copy of the book through the mail. He will have to be extradited to Florida to face charges.

[James]

Wow. That should be a nice constitutional case.

[Drolefille]

Has there not been a case that's dealt with obscenity and internet retailers these days? Obscenity varies based on the standards of the locale or something IIRC.

[Leslie Anne]

Ha! They took it down.

[Drolefille]

Originally Posted by Jen

If CreateSpace (the Ama/zon affiliate) works like Lulu, then Ama/zon only gets money when a copy of the book is actually purchased. It can sit for sale on their site for 100 years - they won't get a dime unless someone actually buys it. (They get a percentage of the royalty the author sets for themselves, ie a book with a $5 royalty might net Ama/zon a dollar; four goes to the author.)

And now, thanks to the kerfuffle being made, people are buying it and Ama/zon will now make money.

(Law related question ... how protected are purchasers from law enforcement getting a list of who bought the book?)

They'd need some sort of probable cause. Companies generally don't like giving that information out. /based on much L&O

Originally Posted by Leslie Anne

Ha! They took it down.

And, as predicted, I have lost respect for them.

[PiKA2001]

Originally Posted by Drolefille

They'd need some sort of probable cause. Companies generally don't like giving that information out. /based on much L&O

Two werdz...Patriot Act.


They don't need PC for something like this. If the FBI wanted a list of everyone who downloaded/bought this book they'd have it by tomorrow morning. The tracking of sales of certain products( bomb/meth making, child porn) is common in today's world. It's also easier for law enforcement to get a list of everyone who visited greekchat within the last 24 hours as opposed to getting a list of every site Drolefille visited in the last 24 hours.