The title suggests he views porn - and especially child porn - on the Internet as an inevitable negative, as scary as the atomic bomb. In "A Different Bomb ( )," Townshend warns that portions of the Internet represent a terrible danger, primarily because it brings deviant material to deviant (and potentially deviant) people. His research claims were bolstered by a document he wrote and posted on his official website in January, 2002. Failure to do so would carry a five-year jail sentence. He was also placed on the Sex Offenders Register, requiring him to register with the police every year and if he moves house. In May 2003, he was cautioned by the police (acceptance of which is technically an admission of guilt), who decided not to press charges, after finding no evidence that he was in possession of child pornography. Police returned the computers several months later and did not contradict Townshend's claim that the computers contained 15,000 of his songs but no child porn. His home was searched and his computers confiscated. When a British tabloid found his name on this list and asked for a comment, he went public and requested a police investigation.
He made the admission after his credit card transaction was discovered as part of Operation Ore, a large anti- child pornography operation. In early January 2003, Townshend admitted having provided his credit card details to a commercial child pornography website, and viewing the child porn images there, which he claimed to have done for research purposes.
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