[pnraoaft] Watertown manhunt

The police in Watertown are going door to door searching for the alleged Marathon bomber.

You have in your house a CD-R burned with music, possible evidence of multi-million dollar copyright infringement.  Or an iPod with music for which you do not have receipts proving you purchased every song stored on it.

Or, your computer may have a cache of the pornography you viewed, but you do not have the 18 USC 2257 documentation for each image or video proving its legality.

Or, there is a 17-year-old in the house and used birth control, evidence of statutory rape.

Or, there is a 20-year-old and evidence of alcohol consumption.

Should you consent to allowing your house to be searched?  I'm pretty sure evidence of another crime discovered while executing a voluntary search is admissible.

The larger issue is we have allowed to become enacted laws making illegal actions that a significant proportion of the population commits.