United States Court of Appeals For the Seventh Circuit ____________________ No. 23-2207 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. WARREN SIEPMAN, Defendant-Appellant. ____________________

Appeal from the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, Eastern Division. No. 18-cr-130 — Harry D. Leinenweber, Judge. ____________________

ARGUED MAY 13, 2024 — DECIDED JULY 11, 2024 ____________________

Before SCUDDER, ST. EVE, and PRYOR, Circuit Judges. ST. EVE, Circuit Judge. On three separate occasions, an au- tomated government software program accessed and down- loaded child pornography from Warren Siepman’s computer over a peer-to-peer file sharing network. The central issue in this appeal is whether that amounts to “transportation” of child pornography under federal law. It does. 2 No. 23-2207

I. Background A. Fac