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UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALSFOR THE THIRD CIRCUIT  No. 08-4702 UNITED STATES OF AMERICAv.RODERICK S. VOSBURGH, Appellant On Appeal from the United States District Courtfor the Eastern District of PennsylvaniaDistrict Court No. 2-07-cr-00171-001 District Judge: The Honorable Timothy J. Savage Argued January 12, 2010Before: SCIRICA,
Chief Judge
, BARRY, and SMITH,
Circuit Judges
(Filed: April 20, 2010)
 
2Denise S. Wolf (Argued)Office of United States Attorney615 Chestnut StreetSuite 1250Philadelphia, PA 19106
Counsel for Appellee
Anna M. DurbinPeter Goldberger (Argued)50 Rittenhouse PlaceArdmore, PA 19003
Counsel for Appellant 
 OPINION SMITH,
Circuit Judge.
Roderick Vosburgh appeals his conviction for possessionof child pornography in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2252(a)(4)(B)and attempted possession of child pornography in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2252(b)(2). We will affirm. I. Factual Background A. RanchiAt the center of this case is an underground Internetmessage board known as Ranchi. Ranchi allows users to post
 
 We will state the facts relevant to Ranchi in the present
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tense, as they are presented that way in the record. It isunknown whether Ranchi is operative today. 3links to images and videos of child pornography. Ranchi is
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not simply an open forum in which some posts happen to berelated to child pornography; child pornography is Ranchi’s
raison d’etre
. It describes itself as a place to “share all kinds of material especially for all the kiddy lovers around the world.This material can range from non-nude cuties to hard core babymaterial.” Ranchi allows its users access to a wide range of  pornographic pictures and videos, including hard core videos of infants and other children engaging in sexual acts with eachother and with adults. Ranchi explicitly warns that the pornographic materials posted to the board are illegal. Ranchi does not itself host child pornography; instead, itdirects users to where it can be found elsewhere on the Internet.For obvious reasons, chiefly among them a desire to evade lawenforcement, Ranchi operates in the far recesses of cyberspace.It is accessible through the use of any one of three “gateway”websites that exist at any given time. Each gateway consists of a web page that contains nothing but a hyperlink to the actualRanchi message board. The gateway sites change approximatelyevery three months, but regardless of their location, they always point to the most recent location of the Ranchi board, whichitself moves around the Internet on a weekly basis. It is highlyunlikely that an innocent user of the Internet would stumbleacross Ranchi through an unfortunate Google search. BecauseRanchi moves so frequently and has cumbersome URLs, it is

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