There are tons of cheap places to put your downloaded porn these days. You got your thumbdrives, your flash cards, your external hard drives, your iPods, not to mention all the ways you can burn that stuff to CD and DVD. Why do we mention this? Because the one place to store your porn should never ever ever be on your main hard drive. Because if you ever have a problem with your system, and send it in for repairs, Chuck down at the Nerd Herd can now legally hand all yr wackoff material to the fuzz.
"If a person is aware of, or freely grants to a third party, potential access to his computer contents, he has knowingly exposed the contents of his computer to the public and has lost any reasonable expectation of privacy in those contents...," the Superior Court of Pennsylvania ruled December 5th.
Let's set aside questions of piracy and obscenity for just a sec, because we've got a whole other type of question: isn't downloading porn *so* Web 1.0? I mean, you got all those Flash-based video-on-demand sites out there... Why not let them worry about getting raided by the cops. Saves you the bandwidth and the headache -- and it ain't like your ISP wasn't gonna know what you were up to either way.