Re:Teenager facing prison for downloading unsecured files fr...
by gtlondon on Tuesday April 17, 2018 @06:26AM
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Yes, the house analogy is not accurate.
It would be logical to assume that as the files have specifically been made public via HTTP then no laws are being broken by viewing them unless a warning message appears saying otherwise.
URLs have no way to classify them to legal and illegal ones. You can propose a plan to w3c and to government to mark URLs with string 'illegal' in them, if they are illegal to visit without special permissions. It will make them distinguishable from legal URLs, and then it would be normal to charge for visiting illegal URLs. But this rule should be a widely known social norm, not a local rule of some site hidden on some obscure page that easy to miss.