Re: Child Porn - How Widespread?


"Charlie Wilkes" <charlie_wilkes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:pan.2008.02.09.01.36.08@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
On Fri, 08 Feb 2008 17:17:02 -0800, Bo Raxo wrote:



Read the article. They used peer to peer networks. These let you find
a file, and then find out how many computers are hosting the file. If I
go to isohunt.com and put in something I'm looking for, say, Green Day
American Idiot, I can find that there are 63 computers with a complete
copy of the album, and another 147 that are downloading it currently.


True, but if you get slightly familiar with peer to peer systems you
will find out that you can locate how many computers have identical
files with a particular name easily, in a matter of seconds, no spyware
or any other fancy stuff needed. It's intrinsic to how peer to peer
works.

Interesting. I should have read more carefully. I don't know anything
about peer to peer, because I live in a remote place and don't have that
kind of bandwidth. Are they all fully aware that they are hosting
illegal material? I'm surprised people with CP on their HDDs would make
it available on the network without any control over who has access.


Whether people are aware that child porn is illegal, I don't know. But they
are aware of the names of the files that they are hosting.

Here's how it works:

You download a program that does the actual file transfers. There are
different "flavors", as different and incompatible as Windows and Linux.
Within a flavor there are different choices as well, but that's irrelevant.

You install the software. Now depending on the flavor, you use a search
engine appropriate for that. Some flavors have the search engine built in
the transfer software, some flavors (like bittorrent) rely on actual web
sites to host the search engine functionality.

You put in a name to search, and possibly a format (audio, video, programs,
etc). Maybe you put in the name Elton John; maybe you put in the word Rape.
Whatever type of thing you're looking for.

The search function comes back with a list of files, with the number of
people hosting complete copies (called seeders), and the number of people
downloading (called leechers). Downloaders also serve as hosts, they are
hosting the parts of the file they have already downloaded.

Some of the search engines also let you "share" whole file directories. So
on those, if you see that someone has, say, a song you like, you can see
what else they also have to see what you might be interested in. That's a
method for turning up whole caches of pornography - I download the regular
old adult hetero kind, but I don't see why it wouldn't work with any other
kind of content, including illegal stuff.

As for regular porn, there's a huge amount out there. I surf the web, I see
the name of some minor porn starlet who looks cute, I plug in her name.
Within a couple of days I can have a gigabyte of video of that girl, and
we're talking any one of hundreds, if not thousands, of names. If I miss an
episode of, say, The Simpsons, or Law and Order, I can easily download it.
Entire seasons of these shows ripped from DVDs. Movies. Whatever.

The amount of content and the number of people participating are both
staggering. The day after an episode of a TV show airs there will be
thousands of people downloading just that one show.

So hundreds of thousands downloading child porn? Astounding on one level,
but given the scale of this stuff, entirely possible. Do these people who
click to download a file titled "3 year old raped" have the intent to get
child porn? Most definitely. There's no possible way they couldn't.

That's the reality. What is most disturbing is that this distribution
channel gives someone who has a fetish to create content and distribute it
an easy way to publish. Which is a polite way of saying it may be an
incentive to not only molest a child, but to put it out there where it will
circulate forever.

No doubt sooner or later somebody will be trying to download child porn, and
will find video or pictures of themselves being raped as a child. The
watcher and the watched. A chilling notion.


Bo Raxo





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