Child abuse sites on the rise
p2pnet.net news:- The number of hardcore child abuse pictures for sale online has quadrupled over three years, says Britain’s Internet Watch Foundation.
The images, “appear to be on a trend towards more severity, probably because there is greater demand,” The Guardian has IWF chairman Peter Robbins saying.
“The age of the children involved is predominantly under 12, and the commercial sites where these images are being sold are staying up for long periods.”
The challenge to have commercial websites removed from the web is a still a serious one, says the IWF, “with some of the most prolific sites avoiding closure by ‘hopping’ servers across different legal jurisdictions.”
One site, for example, has been reported 224 times to the IWF since 2002, it says, pointing out that 90% of commercial child abuse sites, “appear to be hosted in the US and Russia”.
Also See:
Internet Watch Foundation – IWF reports increased severity of online child abuse content, April 17, 2007
The Guardian – Worst child abuse images quadruple online in three years, says watchdog, April 17, 2007
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April 18th, 2007 at 9:13 am
“the commercial sites where these images are being sold are staying up for long periods.”
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” 90% of commercial child abuse sites, “appear to be hosted in the US and Russia”.
The RIAA and MPAA can use the American Goverment to get a site outside of their jurisdiction taken down and the servers seized (thepiratebay for example), but law enforcment can not get a child porn site taken down??? Somethings wrong with this picture. Apparently the goverment is spending too much time assisitng the
**AA’s in screwing it’s customers to be worried about crime. Maybe the site operators are ‘lobbying’ the goverment just like the **AA’s. Or maybe they don’t want to touch them until they figure out how to get their names off the customer list first.
April 18th, 2007 at 11:00 am
” Or maybe they don’t want to touch them until they figure out how to get their names off the customer list first. ”
Bingo
April 18th, 2007 at 11:46 am
That is why sites like these are allowed to remain operating. The victims do not have money to bribe U.S., Chinese, and Russian governments to take them down. Hackers will be jailed if they are caught doing the job themselves. This ought to prove that governments don’t give a damn about kids, only money and power.
To take down these sites, one must tell Hollydud that these porn flicks is using their material in scenes. That maybe will do it.