  Watching kiddie porn in New York is now less illegal than
smoking weed. Attention, perverts: if you like kiddie porn,
you'll love New York.   Possessing, producing, and distributing
child erotica is still illegal (sorry, perverts), but the court
decided that "possessing" kiddie porn and viewing it on the
Internet are not the same thing. In other words, just because
you saw smut on the Internet doesn't mean it's your possession,
and therefore isn't illegal under the current law.  "Merely
viewing Web images of child pornography does not, absent other
proof, constitute either possession or procurement within the
meaning of our Penal Law," Senior Judge Carmen Beauchamp
Ciparick wrote in the Court's ruling (which you can read -- in
its entirety -- below).  The ruling stems from the case of an
assistant professor of public administration at Marist College,
James D. Kent, who in 2009 was convicted of several kiddie porn-
related crimes. Kent, who was sentenced to three years in prison
after more than a hundred imag