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Originally Posted by devonin

You're holding (and thus withholding) evidence of a crime. That is illegal.

That's a different issue. We just want to consider possession of the video, without extraneous factors, so for the sake of our hypothetical let's assume the video is publically available and as easy to obtain as a Youtube video. Would someone having a copy of that video be treated as badly as we treat pedophiles? Clearly not. It's distasteful, sure, but nobody would say people who download publically available videos of murders deserve to spend a decade in jail.

Originally Posted by Pseudo Enigma

Legit question: is there a fetish which involves killing people or watching people die? Are people being killed to fuel this fetish?

There is such a fetish, yes. Occasionally people do kill each other for sexual reasons, but afaik there isn't any kind of black market for new videos.

Originally Posted by MixMasterLar

There actually is a Russia police case that happened recently where a man hired someone to murder and eat him because that was his fetish.

Are you thinking of Armin Meiwes (from Germany), or was there another one?

Originally Posted by Cavernio

it's possible that spreading actual child porn around prevents actual incidents

According to a study I just found (http://www.springer.com/about+spring...01-6-1042321-0) it looks like the availability of child porn does actually decrease the number of child sex abuse cases. I wonder if loli (drawn cp from Japan) has the same effect - it'd be great if it did, since it doesn't even harm actual children when it's produced.