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Mississippi man gets prison in 'very technical' child pornography case: news reports
NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune ^ | 6/27/15 | James Varney, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune

Posted on 06/27/2015 6:06:58 PM PDT by BBell

A Saucier, Miss., man whose computer had a child pornography IP address registered to someone else will still have to serve time, according to a report in The SunHerald. The sentence was a bifurcated one.

Circuit Court Judge Larry Bourgeois sentenced Keith Joseph Cuevas, 37, to a 10-year sentence but then suspended 6 ½ years of it, meaning Cuevas must serve 3 ½ years. Cuevas, who will not be eligible for early release, will then face five years of supervised probation and lifetime registration as a convicted sex offender, the paper reported.

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To: BuffaloJack
He lived in a home with other people and he was using the IP address of one of the other residents.

As Billthedrill pointed out the most likely scenario is a home router. if that was the case (99% likely) then he had no choice but to use the same address as all of the other residents. That's because they all use the address of the router. That is the only address that can be traced. All the residents are assigned an internal address by the router, but that doesn't matter at all and it would not matter if he used an internal address of another resident, it would not change anything externally.

The 1% possibility is that there was no home router, and the provider assigned addresses to all the home users. But in that case he could have used an address from someone across town. It is very unlikely that they would mention the home users without it being the home router scenario.

21 posted on 06/27/2015 8:06:25 PM PDT by palmer (Net "neutrality" = Obama turning the internet into FlixNet)
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To: BBell
The writeup is terrible. The most likely scenario is what I just described in my previous comment. The "child pornography IP address" is simply an address harvested from a server log. In the home router scenario that is the address of the router. It does not and cannot identify the particular computer on the home side of the router.

The phrase "registered to someone else" simply means that the router did not belong to him and "registered" is the wrong term. The correct phrase would be "automatically assigned by the network to the router belonging to someone else which he got routed through along with the other residents"

22 posted on 06/27/2015 8:11:34 PM PDT by palmer (Net "neutrality" = Obama turning the internet into FlixNet)
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To: chaosagent

I agree. He probably had a public defender who told him to plead guilty to one count and he would only get 3 1/2 years. Had he fought it he would have been sentenced to 10 years or more.


23 posted on 06/27/2015 8:11:42 PM PDT by BBell (Identifies as a knight who says "NI"!!!!!! I want a shrubbery!!!!!!)
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To: BBell

“pled guilty to one count of exploitation of a child.”

It is not a precedent is it?


24 posted on 06/27/2015 9:04:43 PM PDT by the_daug
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To: sagar
"It is their responsibility to ensure that their property (computers, internet access, etc) is not used in a crime. Make money from criminals paying you, you should pay for it."

So then if you own a rental house and your renter date rapes a girl you should go to jail for rape or at least as accessory.

Your logic is impeccable... (for the clueless among you the preceding statement would be sarcasm, the dripping variety)

25 posted on 06/27/2015 9:12:08 PM PDT by Mad Dawgg (If you're going to deny my 1st Amendment rights then I must proceed to the 2nd one...)
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To: sagar

The family of the woman who tried to challenge a D-9 and was flattened instead, sued Caterpillar inc. The law suit went nowhere


26 posted on 06/27/2015 9:30:41 PM PDT by Graybeard58 (2 more shopping days 'til, Graybeard 58's b/day! The BIG seven ohhhh.)
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To: sagar
So if you had a poorly secured wireless access point in your house and someone used it to download something illegal you should go to jail? How about the ISP, shouldn't they face criminal charges as well? How about the backbone providers, shouldn't someone be found libel there? It's a pretty deep hole you are digging.

How about this instead. Capital punishment for child molesters. Capital punishment for anyone filming child molestation. Capital punishment for aggravated rape. Capital punishment for human trafficking. Use what little moral capital the US still has to make human trafficking and child pornography a thing of the past. Including all the Muslim countries that practices slavery without condemnation and outrage from "openminded" liberals.

27 posted on 06/27/2015 9:57:37 PM PDT by Durus (You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality. Ayn Rand)
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To: sagar

“”Are cruise ships responsible for icebergs capsizing their ships? no””

yes, the ship-owner usually is. This is why ships have crews and insurance and stuff.

The ship itself is not liable I think, :p


28 posted on 06/27/2015 10:02:29 PM PDT by GeronL
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To: the_daug
If your lawyer or public defender sucks in can be better to plead out rather than face a long prison sentence.

Look at all the people who plead guilty to misdemeanor domestic violence charges and now wish the had not.

29 posted on 06/27/2015 10:21:09 PM PDT by BBell (Identifies as a knight who says "NI"!!!!!! I want a shrubbery!!!!!!)
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To: BBell

How did his computer have more than one IP address?
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30 posted on 06/27/2015 10:24:21 PM PDT by Figment
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To: sagar
One of these things is not like the others...

A key purpose and duty of ships' crews is to avoid collision -- with anything. Your last point is totally bogus.

31 posted on 06/28/2015 3:43:06 AM PDT by TXnMA ("Allah": Satan's current alias... "Barack": Allah's current ally...)
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To: Graybeard58
The family of the woman who tried to challenge a D-9 and was flattened instead, sued Caterpillar inc. The law suit went nowhere.

Reads as though the plaintiff wasn't left with much to raise.

32 posted on 06/28/2015 4:02:43 AM PDT by Cvengr ( Adversity in life & death is inevitable; Stress is optional through faith in Christ.)
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To: palmer
"As Billthedrill pointed out the most likely scenario is a home router"

Maybe more than one? If the other resident had his own router with WIFI, it would be easy to use his IP address by logging onto to his WIFI. And it would be a thing one might try to cover their tracks.

33 posted on 06/28/2015 5:33:11 AM PDT by HangThemHigh (Entropy's not what it used to be.)
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To: HangThemHigh

Plausible except the perp would try to use a neighbor’s router if possible and typically there will be one modem (e.g. cable or DSL) and one wifi router attached to that.


34 posted on 06/28/2015 5:52:48 AM PDT by palmer (Net "neutrality" = Obama turning the internet into FlixNet)
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