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<i>10 years inside the international child porn industry with our confidential
source.</i>

<b>By Mr. X</b> (translation from original article in German).

Ladies and Gentlemen,

It is not really proper to send anonymous letters. Given the contents of this
letter, everyone will understand my wish for anonymity. Nevertheless, I hope
that you will read this letter completely and think about it.

In recent months, I have followed closely the debate on the topic of filtering
of child pornography in Germany. There have been various suggestions about how
the Internet should be censored and filtered - not only by the Federal
Government (Mrs. von der Leyen and Mr. Schaeuble) but also by federal
countries (such as in Lower Saxony from Mr Sch端nemann).

Discussions on this topic have lasted for months and have triggered a strong
polemic which is also reflected in various forums. For the first time ever, I
will present the "flip side" of the issue and give you an insight from the
other side. I will describe controversial and possibly - from today's
perspective - immoral things and technologies.

Before we begin, I want to say a few words about the legalities and myself: I
will be as accurate as possible to describe the background and my involvement
in this (if any) so that my statements can be verified (we know it would be
illegal to give links to files or email accounts). I have included an excerpt
from PCPro from the year 2007 on the Landslide case. I recommend everyone to
read this report. A few words about myself: I am German, but have lived about
20 years abroad, have a background in the telecommunications sector and later
a second training in the field of education. In my current country there are
no laws relating to surfing, viewing, downloading and saving any type of
files. For this reason, I know very precisely what is happening in the
Internet because I am fully able to follow what happens. Also, I am in an
unfavourable position: earlier, I was for a while strongly involved in the
field of children models. From this time period I know of hundreds of
[pedophile]()s and have virtual contact with designers, programmers and
operators of the sites that operate today's CP [Child Pornography]. I have
even got to know personally some of the girls (and their families) in the
famous CP sets.

In order to systematically describe the situation, I decided to do this in a
theme-oriented fashion:

# Small reflection on the history of the industry

In the Middle Ages, when the life expectancy was still significantly lower,
the puberty began later than today and adolescents in the age range 12-18
years were set up for marriage. This changed increasingly. Naked, erotically
depicted boys and girls have always been in the center of the art. As
photography became popular at the end of the 18th Century, also erotic act
descriptions with children and young people were made. At the end of the 60s
there was a magazine called Lolita, produced by the Danish company "Color
Climax", that had sex between children and between children and adults as the
subject.

This magazine was sold everywhere - sometimes from under the counter. Only in
the 80s the magazine was discontinued due to new laws set. From the 90s, the
notion of child pornography expanded ever further. In the 70s and 80s, nudist
magazines such as "Young and Free," "Sunshine Friends", etc. were still
perfectly legal to buy. Even artists such as David Hamilton, Jock Sturges and
Sally Mann published images of naked children and adolescents, which was at
the time was considered an art - even though the first voices reported this as
child pornography to blame. The photographer Jacques Bourboulon got special
attention because of the very erotic pictures of Eva Ionescu he made.

As the Internet age in the '90s began, pictures were initially exchanged via
specific NNTP newsgroups. Specifically zealous fathers began even to abuse
their own children and to share the pictures with others. This was nothing
commercial - it was on grounds of seeking approval - these people wanted to be
the biggest and got plenty of encouragement from lurkers (people that use the
material in newsgroups without contributing anything themselves). Between 1996
and 1999 the first commercial offerings of nude act pitures of children and
adolescents emerged. Some of these sites had quite an artistic approach, while
others lacked in this regard completely. In addition to NNTP, forums emerged
as a social meeting place and as a means to exchange plenty of files and
links. From 2002 LS Studios was founded - a group of Ukrainian businessmen and
professional photographers. Within 2 years, LS Studios had 1500 children and
young people who posed naked - with the consent of their parents. The models
were even recruited through TV and newspaper ads. The photo quality and
professionalism exceeded anything previously published. LS Studios published
over half a million images and hundreds of videos on dozens of websites. In
2004, under the pressure of and with the help of the FBI, LS Studios was
closed. The prosecution was discontinued and there was no one convicted. Since
2003 was also the heyday of a man from St. Petersburg who was known under the
pseudonym Fly, Hook and Scorp. This time the pics were in much worse quality
and much harder. He has a lot of models approximately between 11 and 14 years
of age in front of the camera masturbating and pleased with the dildo. These
images were being published in - no longer existing - sites like MyLola,
Hotlols, Goldenlols, etc. In specific cases the girl even had sexual
intercourse in front of a recording videocamera. What is special about this
production was that he himself started very young. Being a son of a high
Russian official, he had shortage of nothing. When he was still a minor he
falsified documents to claim that he was an adult and with his male and female
friends as models, he began the business. First he started with provocative
but miserable nude act pictures that he produced for other operators (such as
Pedolola, etc.) and then proceeded to defloration in front of the camera. Only
at the end of 2008 he gave up the business. No, not because the police put a
stop but because someone stole his money and everyone (he, the photographer
and his models) lost interest as a result - since for all of them it was only
a matter of money.

The CP producer from St. Petersburg was the one who in the last year flooded
the Internet with masturbation pictures and videos. I have no problems finding
contacts to his models. I will only say this: there is an interesting Naturist
Club in St. Petersburg called Holynature (reachable under holynature.ru).
Interestingly, there are pictures of young people in Holynature.ru sometimes
posing with models who are also seen in the harsh CP photos and videos ... So
as I am able to successfully investigate this, the authorities should also be
cabable of the same ... However, I speak many languages and have an
extraordinarily good education, in particular in the technical field.

At this point I have to mention the so-called Child and Non Nude Teen Modeling
Sites that have been existing since the 90s. These are websites that market
images and videos of children or youngsters. The quality of the images varies
hugely and ranges from Webcam quality to absolute professional quality.
Initially, these sites were usually run by parents and later came more and
more professional operators into the picture. The pictures range, depending on
the operators, from pictures in conservative clothes to very provocative poses
with legs spread and erotic lingerie. About the Non Nude scene it is known
that much happened behind closed doors. Many customers make offers for so-
called Custom shootings - in other words pictures by request. Customers wrote
scenarios, poses, and sometimes even sent clothes to them so that they can
produce images specifically for this customer - at a good price. In most cases
such requests also included the desire for naked pictures in unique poses -
however true sexual abuse or rape was an absolute exception.

# Differing legal positions

Child pornography - the word is used everywhere and nonetheless it is totally
unclear what it actually describes. This is where the problem begins: there
are totally different legal situations. What is considered CP in one place can
be in another place perfectly legal. Even the legal description of CHILD is
not regulated. In a country you are a child until you are 18 years old, in
another the limit is 16 years, or as in Germany one is legally a child until
one is 14 years old, after that he/she is called a young minor until he/she
becomes an adult. In practice this leads to constant conflicts. Law is by no
means uniform. A few years ago there were these kinds of problems with the
magazine "Seventeen" in the Netherlands. When the Internet emerged, the
company produced entirely legal pornography with young people aged 16. As long
as this was sold in the Netherlands, it was no problem. But with the advent of
the Internet Seventeen wanted to sell the pictures and videos on the internet
as well. It was not long until it hit the headlines everywhere for "child
pornography", especially in the USA. This became a huge political pressure on
the Dutch authorities. A very similar problem seems to be, soon, with
Switzerland, where this minor protection ends at the age of 16. Not to mention
countries such as Japan where the age limit in some places is 13 years (the
same applies in Spain). There are countries where there is no minimum age but
one is entitled to have sex when married (this is often the case in Muslim
countries). So here is again the question: what is child pornography? The
answer may vary.

# The business model

Authorities and the media write sensational reports about the proportions, the
alleged threat and trillions of transactions made by the child porn industry.
I will give you for the first time very accurate figures on retail sales.
These figures are very accurate and I have got them from the people
responsible for the bills. But first a few details about the course and
consequences.

As the real Internet business emerged in the late 90s, it was very easy to
enter into this business. I remember the people of Site-Key.com from St.
Petersburg that did much business in 2000. They had a Delaware Corporation in
the United States, a Visa and MasterCard merchant account with Card Service
International in California, and they ran all the payments via the U.S.
through a gateway link from Linkpoint. But there were not only Site-Key but
still a lot of other vendors. One of them provided services particularly for
the distributors of hardcore child pornography (CP was mostly scanned images
of Lolita magazines of the 70s, nudism, nudist pictures doctored to show them
pornographic, as well as pictures of fathers abusing their daughters that they
had posted in newsgroups or forums). This second company (IWest) had their
headquarters in Israel and did their billing through Israeli banks which were
aware of the scheme (until Visa withdrew the license from some Israeli banks,
some have even settled for CCBill for whom it did not matter what was paid
for, the main focus being that money was moving. Some Russian / Israeli
citizens were never particularly choosy...). There was no problem to bill for
any kind images, and the hosting of nude images was not a particular problem
for these companies - let alone for the Non Nude Models. At this time almost
100% of the websites were hosted in the United States because it was the only
place where it was affordable. The Web sites have generated such traffic, that
a human being can hardly imagine how big the interest really is. I have the
2001 statistics of a website containing naked pictures of children and
adolescents. During the month of June 2001, a total of 200 million visits to
the site took place (this is not page views, but unique visitors but on a
daily scale - it is likely that a good part of visitors this month visited the
site on many days and have been counted multiple times. My estimate is that
there were about 15 million unique visitors during this month). The ratio
between visitors and buyers, however, is very small. The same site in June
2001 a turnover of approximately U.S. $ 60,000 made at a price of about $ 30
which is approximately 2000 customers. Even Web sites that still exist, such
as Met-Art.com bought productions in 2000 with 11-14 year old girls, and
everything was billed through the very serious CCBill (this series are no
longer at Met-Art Journal).

After 11 September 2001, the United States was becoming increasingly
unattractive for foreigners because there were so many bureucratic hurdles
that it was no longer worthwhile. Billing-companies oriented themselves
incresingly towards Eastern Europe and found partners such as the Alfabank
that took care of the necessary Merchant contracts for a price. It must be
said that groups from Belarus - specialized for years on the Internet billings
- have built up systems, which can be used to invoice all this stuff (perfect
money washing facilities). As LS models came onto the market, they have
developed their own credit card payment system.LS was in 2003-2004 the world's
biggest studio providers of photographs and videos from erotica with children
and young people including close-ups of genitals and breasts (but no sex) -
typical for Softcore pornography. The girls were from all walks of life,
participated completely voluntarily, and usually with the blessing of the
parents to take photographs. The most popular girls have been posing
repeatedly for years (some even until 2007, long after the collapse of LS
Studios) and everyone who has seen these pictures can see that these girls
like to be in the pictures and have had fun during the recordings (it is
finally time time that someone says this as it really is, even if it seems to
disturb some). LS studios had countless sites such as LS Land, Fantasy LS, LS
Magazine, etc., and sold to the best studios around 1500 LS entrances on the
day for about 40 USD. That makes a daily turnover of approximately USD 60,000
and a monthly turnover of approximately USD 1.8 million, annual sales of
approximately 21.6 million USD. Mind you, this is the total turnover. For the
payment of the 1500 models, personnel, the various sites, their own studios to
create clothes and backgrounds, shares of the Bank and the crazy traffic costs
and the server accounted for about 1 to 1.3 million monthly costs. The
operator got the profit, about half a million per month. SOURCE: https://secur
e.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/2004_Ukrainian_child_pornography_raids

The money could be perfectly washed through Riga or Vilnius. Today mostly
English offshore LTD's are used with bank accounts in offshore banks such as
the Griffon Bank (an example). Until today, many operators have their accounts
at banks such as Parex under false names to which they receive money transfers
and from which they can withdraw money by credit card at any ATM. The
commercial supply of child pornography is very limited. There are tens of
thousands of child pornographic websites. Many of these sites serve as
advertising and lead to the same commercial site. There are a plethora of free
sites that always post the same pictures, very often from the '70s or known
sets that perverted fathers have done with their children and then published.
No sign of an uncomprehensibly large business, let alone of alleged trillion
USD of revenues.

Also in the field of Non Nude Modeling there were sensational reports of sales
by millions. Again, I had direct access behind the scenes. One of the largest
operators in 2004 was AMS or AModelShop. These websites were from Salt Lake
City operated by ... a TV-celebrity called Matthew Duhamel with his server
administrator Charles Graner that had a hosting company and carried out the
operations and billings for the whole Non Nude Modeling Webmaster. Duhamel
produced images of some models himself but he bought most productions all over
the world. They were mostly girls from 9 to 13 years in sexy, erotic clothes
such as Pumps, High Heels, Hotpants, etc. In case the website of Sierra Model
(which ultimately brought down the case Duhamel) was a pubescent girl whose
mother made and offered very provocative pictures on a site. End users also
have ordered specific sets of the daughter directly from the mother where
practically nude pictures were taken in exciting poses. With the pictures they
made good money and even the daughter was so thrilled that she started
skipping school. Thus, the ball got rolling: the school alerted the
authorities, etc. At that time AMS was one of the largest shops in the area of
Non Nude Modeling, and provocative images with the most customers. The
turnover was around 35'000-40'000 USD per month, and generated a monthly
profit of approximately 20,000 USD.

Approx. 2003 and especially 2004, the business became more difficult to
operate. In Germany jugendschutz.net and the Telemedia Act were created to
protect children and adolescents. The first countries such as Denmark began to
censor sites, hosting providers were immediately alerted and servers closed.
Domain Registrars began to simply close domains - when the contents of a
website was objectionable - despite the fact that the domain was paid for
properly (which I believe to be an outrageous breach of the law because the
domain registrar closed domains on its sole discretion and without judicial
order and proper proof even when they did not contain any illegal material -
one of the worst is GoDaddy.com). Many countries have introduced laws which
made such sites illegal. The result was that more and more such sites went
into the underground.

Back in 2000 in Russia there was a forum called DARKMASTERS (earlier
darkmasters.com, then darkmasters.info) where all parties involved in the porn
shops did business with each other. You have to treat this as a marketplace
where anyone could offer his/her services. In the course of that time all
those involved in the Russian Internet business got there together. It does
not matter what kind of business one was involed in, everything was welcome.
Of adult porn to animal and child porn, everything was sold and marketed on
this platform. Everyone offered their services: photographers, webmasters,
programmers, designers and job applicants. Certain groups such as the so-
called Lolita webmasters were ostracized by the Adult Webmasters - there were
conflicts. Since pornography is illegal in Russia and all Eastern Bloc
countries, it played no role in whether you are a only ittle bit illegal or a
little bit more. Over the years, a combination of individual skills took
place. Due to the increasing problems caused by censorship, hosting, billing
and marketing, the various groups became more specialized and began working
together. The best programmers and server administrators from Eastern Europe
came together, mixed with the best document falsifiers, Carders (credit card
fraud specialist), spammers and hackers who wrote and distributed the
rootkits, viruses and trojans for years. And for special cases, the Russian
organized crime was called to help in exceptional cases where one wanted the
authorities to be more active to push an unwanted competitor out of the way,
or to kill an idiot who couldn't keep their mouth shut. Even if the reality
between webmasters was sometimes very dangerous, I was not aware of any
violence against children and adolescents.

During the years this combination of skills has resulted in the most ingenious
schemes I have ever seen in my life. It is beyond the skills of BKA, FBI, and
certainly politicians who don't even know of such systems, let alone
understand them. It is outrageous naivet辿 with which politicians speak of
things of which they do not have the slightest clue. All the more frightening,
however, is how much they use child pornography as a tool to write headlines
and create populist slogans and as a means to justify more monitoring even
though it is clear that the system established will very quickly be used for
very different purposes than (unsuccessful) child porn filtering. Among the
operators, there are two types: those mostly from Western Europe and North
America are catched relatively quickly because they don't have the slightest
clue. These are the people who appear in big headlines when they are caught.
But there are, however, other varieties comprising the best-trained server
administrators, programmers and hackers. There is a direct collaboration
between programmers who write the special Trojans and rootkits, hackers who
command the Bot Nets and infected computers (zombies) as well as spammers who
send their mail via the Bot Nets of the hacker.

# The technology of today

An essential part of today's commercial child pornography is now hosted in
Germany and distributed from Germany. If this is for you a shock, then I will
explain how this works, and the authorities can do absolutely nothing except
for the stupid ideas people muck:

Today's schemes are technologically very demanding and extremely complex. It
starts with the renting of computer servers in several countries. First the
Carders are active to obtain the credit cards and client identities
wrongfully. These data are then passed to the falsifiers who manufacture
wonderful official documents so that they can be used to identify oneself.
These identities and credit card infos are then sold as credit card kits to
operators. There is still an alternative where no credit card is needed: in
the U.S. one can buy so-called Visa or MasterCard gift cards. However, these
with a certain amount of money charged Visa or MasterCard cards usually only
usable in the U.S.. Since this anonymous gift cards to buy, these are used to
over the Internet with fake identities to pay. Using a false identity and
well-functioning credit card servers are then rented and domains purchased as
an existing, unsuspecting person. Most of the time an ID is required and in
that case they will simply send a forged document. There is yet another
alternative: a payment system called WebMoney (webmoney.ru) that is in Eastern
Europe as widespread as PayPal in Western Europe. Again, accounts are opened
with false identities. Then the business is very simple in Eastern Europe: one
buys domains and rents servers via WebMoney and uses it to pay.

As soon as the server is available, a qualified server admin connects to it
via a chain of servers in various countries with the help of SSH on the new
server. Today complete partitions are encrypted with TrueCrypt and all of the
operating system logs are turned off. Because people consider the servers in
Germany very reliable, fast and inexpensive, these are usually configured as
HIDDEN CONTENT SERVERS. In other words, all the illegal files such as
pictures, videos, etc. are uploaded on these servers - naturally via various
proxies (and since you are still wondering what these proxies can be - I'll
explain that later). These servers are using firewalls, completely sealed and
made inaccessible except by a few servers all over the world - so-called PROXY
SERVERs or FORWARD SERVERs. If the server is shut down or Someone logs in from
the console, the TrueCrypt partition is unmounted. Just as was done on the
content servers, logs are turned off and TrueCrypt is installed on the so-
called proxy servers or forward servers. The Russians have developed very
clever software that can be used as a proxy server (in addition to the
possibilities of SSL tunneling and IP Forwarding). These proxy servers accept
incoming connections from the retail customers and route them to the content
Servers in Germany - COMPLETELY ANONYMOUSLY AND UNIDENTIFIABLY. The
communication link can even be configured to be encrypted. Result: the server
in Germany ATTRACTS NO ATTENTION AND STAYS COMPLETELY ANONYMOUS because its IP
is not used by anyone except for the proxy server that uses it to route the
traffic back and forth through a tunnel - using similar technology as is used
with large enterprise VPNs. I stress that these proxy servers are everywhere
in the world and only consume a lot of traffic, have no special demands, and
above all are completely empty.

Networks of servers around the world are also used at the DNS level. The DNS
has many special features: the refresh times have a TTL (Time To Live) of
approximately 10 minutes, the entries usually have multiple IP entries in the
round robin procedure at each request and rotate the visitor to any of the
forward proxy servers. But what is special are the different zones of the DNS
linked with extensive GeoIP databases ... Way, there are pedophiles in
authorities and hosting providers, allowing the Russian server administrators
access to valuable information about IP blocks etc. that can be used in
conjuction with the DNS. Each one who has little technical knowledge will
understabd the importance and implications of this... But what I have to
report to you is much more significant than this, and maybe they will finally
understand to what extent the public is cheated by the greedy politicians who
CANNOT DO ANYTHING against child pornography but use it as a means to justify
total monitoring.

But how, specifically, child pornography is sold? As the operators cannot
resort to door to door knocking and market their sites this way, they had to
work out other ways to sell. There used to be links in forums, toplist,
advertisements in newsgroups, etc. Today, the answer is SPAM. The revenue from
the child porn business are divided into 40-60% for the payment processor and
the bank (percentage rate will depend on how hard the material is), 20% of the
operator and 20% of the marketers (in this case, spammers). Spammers use
millions of email addresses of interested people - the lists of earlier
payment processors they have. But hackers have also obtained huge client lists
of large companies and sold the email addresses to spammers.In order to send
spam trojan-infected (zombie) computers are used. But zombie computers have
yet another use: it will be used in a targeted fashion to steal identities.
They even use the computer of the user whose identity is stolen to conduct
credible transactions such as purchase of domains, etc. But that is not
everything: the installed Trojans are sometimes used as a SOCKS proxy to
upload CP. The Russians have even worked out a schema to use infected computer
as a network combing these infected computers (each computer would be part of
a huge, redundant cluster) as a kind of huge, distributed and remote servers
can be (a kind of Freenet Project, however, by using infected computers as the
nodes). I want to make one thing clear: if you have an email address, there is
a possibility that there is child pornography on your computer because you
have received CP advertising. And if your computer is not 100% safe against
Trojans, viruses and rootkits, there is the possibility that your computer is
part of the vast child pornography network.

Same as for the content servers, logging is turned off on the proxy and
forwarding servers, residing in Truecrypt containers. The Russians have
developed very clever software for proxy servers (in addition to the
possibility of SSL tunneling and IP Forwarding). This proxy accepts incoming
connections from the customers which are then tunneled to the Content Server
in Germany - completely anonymous and unidentifiable. The link can even be
configured for encryption. Result: the server in Germany NEVER APPEARS
PUBLICALLY AND STAYS completely anonymously because he never appears with its
IP except to the proxy servers that are configured to send the traffic back
and forth like through a tunnel - using similar technology like large
enterprise VPNs. I stress that this proxy servers are installed everywhere in
the world and only consume a lot of traffic, have no special demands, and
above all are completely unused.

At the DNS level there also is a network of servers around the world. The DNS
has many special features: the refresh times have a TTL (Time To Live) of
approximately 10 minutes, the entries usually have multiple IP entries in a
round robin procedure, and at each request rotates the visitor to any of the
forward proxy server. But the real specials are the different zones of the DNS
with extensive GeoIP databases linked to it ... Also, there are pedophiles in
authorities and hosting providers, allowing the Russians server administrators
access to valuable information about IP blocks that was built into the DNS
database. For everyone with a little technical knowledge it is extremely
important to understand the implications of this... But what I will have to
report is much more significant than this, and maybe they will finally say to
what extent the public is being twitted and cheated by the greedy politicians
against child pornography that can not do anything about it, but make into the
means to an end, justifying State surveillance.

But how, specifically, is child pornography sold? As the operator cant go
knocking door to door and these sites cannot be readily sold, other means had
to beworked out ways to sell. There used to be links in forums, toplists,
advertisements in newsgroups, etc. Today, the answer is SPAM. The revenue from
the child porn business are divided into 40-60% of the payment processor and
the bank (percentage rate will depend on our hard the material is), 20% of the
operator and 20% of the known candidates (in this case, spammers). Spammers
dispose of millions of email addresses of interested people - the lists are
compiled also of earlier payment processings. But hackers have also had a huge
client list of large companies of interest and sold the email addresses to
spammers. In order to send spam, computers infected by trojans (zombie) are
used. But zombie computers have yet another use: whole identities are
targetedly stolen by hackers. They even use the computer of the user with the
stolen identity to move credibility in respect to the perpetration of criminal
transactions such as purchase of domains, etc. But that is not everything: the
installed Trojans are sometimes used for his computer as a SOCKS proxy to use
for upload of child pornography. The Russians have even worked out how to use
schemes of infected computer in a network and can combine these computers
(each computer would be part of a huge, redundant cluster) that can be used as
kind of a huge, distributed and remote server network (a kind of Freenet
Project, however, by making use o the infected computers through Trojans
nodes). I want to make one thing clear: if they have an email address, there
is a possibility that there is child pornography on the computer because the
owner possess the child pornography from the advertising provider, maybe in
his spam directory. And if your computer is not 100% safe against Trojans,
viruses and rootkits, there is the possibility that your computer is part of
the vast child pornography network.

In recent years I have watched as authorities - due to a lack of knowledge
(and motivation) - and judges (due to ignorant shirtsigtedness) have wrongly
suspected and very often also convicted thousands of people. There were
fathers destroyed, families ruined, and people event committed suicide. Masses
of accused people have even admitted guilt (although innocent) in order to
avoid public humiliation in a court and additional damages resulting from it.
One of the first big story was the alias of Landslide Operation Ore case.
Allegedly 70,000 users had purchased child pornography from Landslide. The
only ones that were really pleased were the Russians. Landslide had nothing to
do with child pornography. But because Landslide developed a portal where also
money was transferred, the Russian operators had opened accounts frequently
and then tried to sell child pornography under these accounts. The manager of
Landslide was extremely naive and did not have enough control over the
accounts, payment processing and fraud. He did not notice that several credit
cards were charged more than once, that client IPs did not match with the
issuing bank, etc. - the CEO of Landslide was himself the victim of a gigantic
fraud. The fact is that the CP operators had made a deal with the Russian
Carders who got their credit cards and identities from the U.S. mafia (more
specific information is given in the accompanying article from PC Pro). Under
these CP accounts thousands of scammed and stolen (with the help of a trojan)
credit cards were used so they brought the company Landslide insane revenues.
But they were all stolen credit cards. Since it was already too late for
Landslide and for thousands of innocent people, this meant the end of family
life, loss of employment and even the end of any hope that led to a subsequent
suicide. Much worse is that the U.S. police manipulated the website of
Landslide AFTERWARDS (this is best described in PCPro).

# Where and how abuse happens

I have pretty much faced everything what is happening on the Internet
regarding this theme. But the gruesome images of crying, raped and even
tortured children do not come from commercial producers. They come not from
third parties but from bestial fathers and mothers of the children that do
this to them. Most are fathers with incestuous tendencies who meet in forums
and chats. One begins to make and distribute images, perhaps initially only
depicting the naked child - Then, the masturbating child, then the child being
raped, and perhaps the child in a forced Sadomaso game. Each parent goes
always a little further because he/she always has to offer a little more than
the predecessor. In other words, the violent abuse takes place almost always
in the family. By publication of these pictures they end up in the Internet.
Again the Russians collect the material and publish it on commercial websites.

I see and make a clear distinction between violent and voluntary even though
it may sound outrageous. But one who has ever seen the images, can quickly
distinguish them. Ever since child pornography has been exchanged on the
Internet, pictures that were the cruelest have originated from people that
belong to the family circle. They publish the images out of self-promotion and
totally free - it is simply an "outbidding" for the atrocities one can do to
their own child. The Russians fish pretty much everything on the internet and
then publish those images along with images from the 70s into commercial
sites. The productions were made by third parties for commercial purposes
(such as the LS Studios pictures, etc.) are always made voluntarily. You see
the kids grinning a big fun in front of the camera. I know some of these
children are now teenagers or have even reached the age of majority. Many
regret that they no longer can be models and did not understand why they
suddenly no longer were photographed. Even tougher pictures from St.
Petersburg show girls in their first voluntary sexual experimentation. Also
there you can see that for the girls it is a game and that they had fun. I
know that in most cases the mother was informed and that she allowed the
daughter to participate. Nobody has suffered, no one has been forced and these
were free decisions - why cannot the society simply accept this fact? Even
money was not always the driving force. There were certainly girls from very
good homes that had no shortage of money. But they had a passion for
voyeurism, naked posing, etc. at a very young age (which you can see today
with the phenomenon of "Sexting" where children and young people share very
provocative pictures with each other, according to reports up to 20% of young
people make and share this kind of pictures)

It is first and foremost the media that writes sensational headlines about
child pornography and sexual abuse. The most qualified clinical
psychotherapists know that the public fuss is often much worse than any actual
experience (children and young people are practically conditioned to be
victims even though they have very different feelings about the experience).
Approx. 15-20% of my female acquaintances had first sexual experiences at age
11 to 13 years, many of them with a much older partner. By law, this was
absolutely illegal but by her feelings it was absolutely correct and remained
in the best memories. But if such a story was presented in public, then a
victim would be fabricated even though the "victim" does not perceive herself
as such (but he/she MUST feel like a victim to live up to social norms - which
is what the psyche is really made to do). A now-deceased Belgian psychoanalyst
has also analyzed the phenomenon of so-called White marches and reactions of
the public on child abuse. He came to very interesting results. Could it be
that each of us harbours an unconscious, dark and unbearable desire for the
child that one can "unload" by expressing and projecting anger towards a
pedophile monster? Why is the public so eager to know EVERYTHING about cases
of child abuse? The public leeches every perverse detail of such a story and
the sensational media makes an excellent business. The most insidious of the
whole subject of child pornography is the public discussion about things the
speaker only has ideas about but has never seen. Each sensationalist
presentation is allowed and there are no limits to it, and these presentations
can be abused to achieve various objectives. It is not acceptable to tackle
the issue with facts without getting charged for a criminal offense in
Germany. It is like the ultimate indictment where no defense is allowed. It
can be used for everything and every purpose.

# In the name of the child

For years, I hear and read how kids supposedly are so immature. I have worked
close to children and youth for many years and found that children and young
people know much better what they want (or not) as is ascribed to them. The
entire discussion concerning [criminal?] accountability is a testimony to
this. In Germany, this is at 14 years. When one wants to blame children and
young people, then they are never too young to be held responsible. When it
comes to the ability to make sexual decisions, then they are never old enough.
This is an incredible impudence and discrimination in the political debate.
When a child is old enough to accept responsibility for an offense, then it is
also old enough to accept responsibility for his feelings and his body. What a
child needs is a strong protection against violence. And usually it comes not
from strangers and pedophiles but from parents that are - despite the
prohibition of corporal punishment - quick to use the belt [to beat the
child]. The real figure of beaten and physically abused children in Germany is
much higher than that of any victims of sexual abuse. By the way, you have to
really think about the word abuse. The term abuse cannot exist without the
notion of "proper use". Is there a sexual "proper use" of children and
adolescents?

Child protection has become a real industry. There are numerous organizations
dedicated to the protection of the child - their administration, programs and
staff must be funded - which means many job opportunities. I am particularly
worried about the relationships between large and politically important global
organizations such as the National Center for Missing & Exploited Kids and
fundamentalist-totalitarian-oriented religious groups. If you visit their
website (www.missingkids.com) there is a CYBERTIPLINE. There is an opportunity
to select a REPORTING CATEGORY. Under "Unsolicited Obscene Material Sent to a
Child", there is a link to www.obscenitycrimes.org. This organization is, in
turn, operated by Morality in Media, Inc. and is an essential partner of the
Center. I quote here a few of the interesting arguments that this organization
wants to spread and enforce (below, I have collected arguments from various
pages in www.obscenitycrimes.org):

  * The police must do God's work (ie. the police becomes the executive branch of the Bible)
  * Pornography leads to violence and must be banned
  * Pornography leads to homosexuality and child abuse
  * Sexuality in marriage must be regulated (oral, anal and masturbation are against nature and are punishable)
  * Homosexuality should be criminalized
  * Adultery must be punishable
  * Adulterers are predetermined to abuse children
I stop here because otherwise I would burst with anger and bloodthirst. I
noticed that these are the same religious fundamentalists that welcomed cruel
punishment on children with rods, whips, etc. based on Bible verses such as
Hebra 12:6-7 or 1 Book of Kings 12:13-14 and 12:18. The Western world hardly
has to worry about the Talibans but more about Christian fundamentalists
crawling in through the back door of "Child protection".

The National Center for Missing & Exploited Kids (NCMEC) is almost globally
conducting strong, secret lobbying activities and has a major influence on
virtually all European governments, including the EU and in particular the UK.
This organization is becoming more and more important and is strongly pushing
a political agenda in Europe, although the organization is located in the U.S.
There are interesting articles on the topic which come up when you search for
NCMEC in Google. You will soon notice the immense power this organization has
received - even outside the USA. I am not afraid of terrorists but of the
child protection lobby. This is much more ominous, insidious, and is directly
linked to the interests of Christian religious fundamentalists. The NCMEC is,
moreover, also intertwined with the American broadcaster NBC which has
broadcasted the series "To Catch a Predator" - a prime-time show where alleged
child abusers are caught in front of the camera. In the show the police
officers impersonate children and suggest meetings with the adults...

But that's not all. A few months ago, I stumbled upon a new web site, hosted
at DreamHost Web Hosting California. It showed suggestive images of Masha
Allen, a Russian girl adopted by an American pedophile. Over the years, she
was not only his daughter but also his lover. The photos made rounds around
the globe. The father was finally identified and jailed and the girl was
readopted by a woman from Georgia. Masha Allen has massively greedy lawyers.
They have left up this website with suggestive pictures of Masha. They offer
the option to purchase a subscription to get access to more pictures ...
Whoever was lured by this stunt, not only received an immediate visit by the
police but also was threatened by a civil action in the American style - in
other words faced multi-million claims so that the person has to spend rest of
their life paying to the lawyers of Masha Allen who charge enourmous fees and
give the rest to Masha Allen. A nice business model, isn't it?

But it gets worse: the New York state prosecutor Cuomo has started
negotiations with the private company Media Defender (Anti-P2P Piracy
Solutions) in California to look for people that exchange child pornography
via the P2P networks. The aim, therefore, is to give the task of evidence
collection and denunciation of Internet users to a company in the private
sector. According to U.S. law, the company itself is not allowed to search
specifically for child pornography, but this does not bother the U.S.
prosecutor - ultimately it is for a good cause, isn't it? Media Defender is
also a company with strong connections to film and music industry - it is the
same company that pushed the conviction of children downloading music
illegally on the Internet.

SOURCE:
http://www.wired.com/politics/onlinerights/news/2007/09/mediadefender_police

The United States is a respected democracy that over the years has permitted
the use of torture - all this for a good cause and for the protection of the
society. A prison society is growing quickly and is operated by the private
sector. Approximately 2% of the population is serving a sentence, most of them
in a prison. Private prison operators are even traded on the stock market and
they are known to be very profitable and sustainable as more and more prisons
are built and more and more people are put into prison (the amount of people
in prison increases each year by 4%). "Producing" convicted criminals HAS
BECOME A HIGHLY PROFITABLE INDUSTRY and more and more criminals have to be
produced so that the money keeps coming. There are credible rumors of bribes
from operators of the prison to the judges and prosecutors - they pay premiums
for so-called new convictions that result in a prison stay. So you don't have
to be so picky in any investigation, let alone employ qualified officers -
this way there is always sufficient supply of people to put in prison - AND
ESPECIALLY YOU HAVE TO CRIMINALIZE A LOT OF THINGS. Now, at this point, the
reader should pause and do a little reflection on their part, and let this go
once more through their brain. Beautiful, great democracy. SOURCE:
http://www.reuters.com/article/bondsNews/idUSN0727506220071007

And because everything is pushed in the name of protecting the child, these
children and young people feel better. Or do they? Oh, I forgot to mention
something: the laws for the protection of children and adolescents are now
used against them in many countries. Exactly, you did not misread that. This
happens especially in the Ango-Saxian countries like the USA and the UK.
Children who discover sexuality are arrested, convicted as pedophiles (!).
Young lovers send pictures in which they wear nothing but underwear or even
less - the so-called SEXTING. If the images end up in the public domain, this
usually becomes disastrous for the youngsters. There are countless documented
cases where both young people were convicted because of CHILD PORNOGRAPHY.
There are also relations of minors with adults: a 17-year-old girl with a 18
-year-old boy, for example. One such case is known to me from Ohio, where a 15
-year-old girl was arrested and put in the prison was because she refused to
testify against her 18-year-old boyfriend so that he could be convicted as a
child abuser (because the parents of the girls have denounced him - he did not
fit the taste of Mom and Dad. In one comment the parents said it is right that
their daughter is sitting in prison because she did not want to charge his
boyfriend). The laws allegedly made for protection of children and adolescents
are increasingly used to criminalize and control the sexuality of children and
adolescents - with the prosecution used even against the children and young
people themselves. Interestingly, we come again to my earlier observation:
children and young people are good enough to be punished, even convicted. But
sexually they are totally immature and dumb. SOURCE:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28679588/

In Great Britain the situation is not much better. Based on the theory that
abuse victims become abusers themselves, the British government launched a
database to identify all victims with the purpose of putting such persons
under monitoring because they are under general suspicion, as former victims
of abuse sometimes become abusers. The victims are now suspects themselves and
are monitored as potential criminals. Since the end of 2008 there is (again) a
new database with the purpose of collecting information about every child in
the UK and their development in order to observe signs of abuse. I wonder just
how long it will take until one of these databases leaks somewhere, or even
gets lost in traffic - as has already happened with other UK databases. Should
such a database fall into the hands of the Russians, they would again have
solid content for new websites.

# The reality of filtering and censorship

Based on my descriptions so far it should be clear to anyone sensible reading
this that filtering and censorship make absolutely no sense. The Russians are
well-informed about countries such as Denmark and Sweden and know which sites
are on the blacklists and how the filtering systems work. A few weeks ago, a
strictly secret blocking list appeared on the Internet at:
http://scusiblog.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/dkfichse_15012009txt.sorted

It is the blacklist of 15 January 2009 from Denmark. As you can see, these
lists are very confidential ... If you are looking for child pornography is,
you should send the Danish police a thank-you letter for the hot tips. But
what is immediately obvious is that this list does not contain only illegal
child pornography sites. I have not, of course, checked all domains. Most of
these have been defunct since times immemorial (but they are still listed -
this will surely make next owner of the domain happy if the domain is ever
purchased again). It is worth noting that some sites with flat-chested adult
models are blocked. Even some gay sites are listed, or sites that have adult
models that look young (even sites participating in a proof-of-age program and
operating within the EU). I wonder, therefore, on what legal basis these adult
sites with verifiably adult (but young-looking) models are put on the
blocklist and even more how the discrimination of these models as adults is
justified. Since it is not justifiable, only mendacious arguments can be used:
A job for the anti-constitutional Mrs. von der Leyen, Mr. Schaeuble or
Sch端nemann. They use the tax money for this purpose and to pay themselves big
fat pensions in the future.

As I have written so far, the whole promotion of child pornography is done via
spam (or publisheded list of domains blocked by the police :-). The spam mails
sometimes also come with images. Even if you do not read the emails and
everything ends up in junk folders there is still the possibility that child
pornography images are saved on the hard drive. A different situation is when
the computer has become infected and is a zombie - then all doors are, so to
speak, open and the computer can even be used for the active dissemination of
child pornography. Those who buy child pornography find links in the spam ads
- most of them will lead to portals. On these portals, but also in forums and
newsgroups, there will be advertisements for security solutions that enable
you to evade tracing AND FILTERING. There are commercial offerings for
foreign, uncensored DNS servers but also for VPN solutions (eg
www.strongvpn.com). In these VPN solutions an encrypted tunnel is established
between the client and a server without logs, and under a false identity
somewhere in the world - the connection may even go through more countries.
Even if the (impossible) suggestion of Mr. Sch端nemann was implemented, there
would be absolutely simple methods to circumvent it. Since Server 2008
Microsoft came out, there is virtualization. There are commercial offers where
no child pornography is actually bought but a virtual workstation is a leased
on which there is a great gift: a workstation full of videos and files ... The
connection can be established very quietly via Windows Remote Desktop or VNC.
No files are trasmitted between the computer of the customer and the server -
only keyboard commands and screen content - usually in encrypted form and
without the slightest trace about what you have viewed. Since the screen of a
computer located e.g. in Russia can be displayed on a PC in germany, the
customer will automatically bypass any filtering, censorship and surveillance
by the German government. Well, the distributors of child pornography can even
calmly sell virtual machines - against which Visa and MasterCard certainly
will have nothing ... When the customer then connects to the virtual computer,
he finds a nice file that is nothing else than a TrueCrypt Container for which
he also received the password to open it. The container can also calmly sit on
his home computer after transfer and because nobody knows what it is, he
remains just a user like millions of others. The Russians have been producing
complete solutions for about 4 years. In these case the business will not run
dry. But the German government will spend the money of taxpayers and the
economy for the irrational and expensive systems.

If you still haven't noticed: Technology is not the solution to child
pornography. No filters, no censorship and no total monitoring can change
this.

# Effective prevention measures

To find prevention measures you should finally throw moralities out of the
window and think about this question: WHY IS CHILD PORNOGRAPHY CONSUMED?

I have 10 years of experience with the topic, I have talked with incredibly
many people about it. What comes out is that about 1% of men have strong
pedophile (pre-puberty children) or ephebophile (pubertal children and
adolescents) fantasies that do not allowed for a normal life because they have
clear sexual preferences. Many report to me being even sexually disgusted by
adults even if they are otherwise socially fully integrated. Moreover, up to
29% men (depends on the culture) have occasional fantasies about young people.
These fantasies never come up and the people usually lead a normal,
inconspicuous life. It is not entirely coincidental that films like
"Confessions of a Sixth Form Girl" [original: "Schulmaedchenreport"], etc.
were extremely successful ...

The sexuality belongs to the psychological basic needs according to Maslow. I
don't consider pedophilia and especially ephebophilia a disease but simply a
sexual preference - this is controversial because my opinion is still shared
by only a few scientists (but that was a few decades ago the case with
homosexuality - whose prosecution did not have an effect, did it? ). However,
I have the advantage to know of the intimate lives of many pedophiles.Many of
them have come into conflict with the law (which is almost inevitable with the
current legal situation) and were sentenced to compulsory treatment. I AM NOT
AWARE OF A SINGLE CASE WHERE A PEDOPHILE WAS HEALED AS A RESULT OF THERAPY
(and I can assure you that I know of incredibly many). The only thing that has
been achieved for some pedophiles is a postponement of the target age to which
they felt attracted. Pedophiles often report that they attach their interest
in younger children to stressful situations. Good stress management causes the
pedophile's target age to go up a few years. Just as earlier with homosexuals,
many have integrated into society, married, discreetly, and have sometimes
even children they love and never abuse. Most live a deceptive double life,
suffering from permanent fear for one's existence that their sexual
orientation could be detected. If discovered, they could lose everything in an
instant. They suffer more or less severe depression because they have hide it
from the society to survive. Instincts always win, sooner or later. Whether
you travel to Cambodia, have a CP archive or have an affair with the daughter
of the neighbors: it is constantly a Russian roulette which a pedophile can
hardly escape.

The question we should ask is: what kind of a decent life can the society
provide for the pedophiles? It is a mistake to believe that pedophiles are
monsters. If one is heterosexual, he does not fall over every woman. One is
also not in love in every woman. A gay man does not rape every man he sees on
the street. It is similar for the pedophiles, they do not feel attracted by
every child and even find children sometimes antipathic. The media is world-
class in undifferentiating reports. People like Dutroux are considered
pedophiles even though I see him rather as a dangerous psychopath who targets
not only children but also young women. Representatives of child protection
organizations want to make us believe that pedophiles have a power problem
with adult women. Although this part is quite possible (that pedophiles
unconsciously fear adults and children are safe and therefore preferred), I've
found out with a large number of pedophiles that they have an absolute
REVULSION against adult women. They have also often a collection-,
enforcement- or control-related obsessions. Then there are those with a Lolita
complex, a strong attraction to virginity and innocence (often happens when
people have been brought up religiously strict with strong repression of
sexuality, they idealize chastity and usually have a violent, authoritarian
mother).

So, what kind of life options does the society provide for a pedophile? The
ostracism, stigma and castration for life with permanent GPS monitoring?
Perhaps a new Ausschwitz with gas chambers should be built for the pedophiles
to get rid of them? It is a little brutal, but death syringe soundst much
better. Perhaps even life-long detention in prison, or encouragement of
psychiatry at the Swiss Dignitas [?] just to report a dignified failure at a
high price tag [very unsure of translation]? Today, there are no decent living
perspectives for a pedophile. To lead a happy life pedophiles CAN AND MUST BE
CRIMINALS.

If you want to reduce abuse and child pornography, you must start at the right
place: major funds must finally be put in the research flow in order to offer
for pedophiles a hope for a decent life (among others in the preference
structure education [?] whose understanding is essential for any sexual
preference). There must be radical work on stigma. No one will show his true
sexual orientation if this can lead to the loss of what he loves and possibly
possesses in life. Under such circumstances it is rather a laborious double
life to live until he one day perhaps makes a mistake and everything goes
public. Pedophiles have been reported to me that they have visited doctors to
ask for advice. Some were thrown away and never again asked to appear to their
family doctor that had known them for years. I do not know how these doctors
and psychotherapists understand the Hippocratic oath but it clearly shows how
strong the stigma is. Media and authorities do much to targetedly support this
stigma and to tear this thema in a populistic fashion. In Anglo-Saxian
countries sexual offenders are only permitted to live in certain areas that
are always getting smaller. Many cannot even live in an apartment because of
the laws. And thanks to publicly searchable databases, when they live
somewhere the entire neighborhood is soon filled with posters and warnings
about these sinners so he is automatically ostracized and no longer can make
connections there. Often, he will then fall victim to violence, "group
lynching trials", that often does not reach the true offenders... [assumed to
mean the consumers of CP, not the bad parents who produce the worst stuff]

Pedophiles come from all social strata, there are workers, unemployed people,
clerks, technicians, teachers, headmasters, lawyers, doctors, artists and
judges. They are found mostly in sectors with children and young people where
they usually do unobtrusively excellent work. It is wrong to accept that
pedophilia and Ephebophilie are only issuses of men. Anyone who has seen child
pornography will be surprised how often there are other adult females in the
pictures. Mothers can also have incestuous affairs pedophile inclinations as
much as women may have (many times mothers have sadistic feelings towards
their daughters, especially when they come into puberty - this also has
something to do with the emergence of a rival and jealousy). Many years ago I
knew a case of a remedial teacher which left her husband because they she had
a lesbian relationship with a girl from the home. Later, the girl moved in to
the remedial teacher's home and they lived together. No one can control which
sexual preference one develops and sexuality is a basic drive of human beings.
The question is: if you are heterosexual, how long would it[?] endure without
sexuality? How would you shape your sexuality if no woman would let you to
touch them? You have to ask the same question concerning pedophiles and think
about how a pedophile can lead a happy and decent life.

The criminalization of child pornography is one of the most stupid decisions
ever made - for various reasons. First, the costs of prosecution for
possession of child pornography are enormous for the state and often very
little results are achieved and after all nothing can be changed about the
actual fact that the crime has been committed. A friend's home was searched
and had all his computers and 4500 video cassettes - on which he for years had
recorded movies - taken. It took 2 years to work through them all and in the
process a huge sum of taxpayers' money was spent FOR ABSOLUTELY NOTHING.
Because he had recorded TV movies on the video tapes! Germany is very rich,
making expensive proceedings for child pornography. Put those who write horror
stories and one-sided descriptions in the jail so that it becomes really
expensive to the taxpayer [?]. Germany has enough money, so let's just do it.

Secondly, it is justified by the argument that viewing of a child porn picture
harms the child. How? The actual exploitation has happened a long time ago!

Thirdly, by now it should be crystal clear to everyone that child pornography
is the perfect weapon to ruin the lives of people (even those who are not
pedophiles). Many innocent people already saw their existence get destroyed
(one case among many is Landslide). I hope that soon these cases are brought
before the European Court for Human Rights in Strasbourg and that the
governments should be held accountable and financially bleed for the filth
they have caused. Many have child pornography on their computers without
knowing it (because of spam, or Trojans used to make the computer a proxy). CP
is the perfect means to cause huge problems and social ostracism to an
unpleasant person. And the government (and the child protection lobby) will
use it as THE argument to decieve a totally unsuspecting population (and even
parliamentarians). You have seen how the terrorism-argument has been misused.
You can at least collect evidence and come up with counterarguments, etc.
against terrorism. But child pornography is THE WEAPON against which one
cannot give counter-arguments because it is totally illegal to do research in
order to form a clear opinion. It can thus lead to wrongdoings, limit our
civil rights and be used to push total monitoring of citizens. I suspect very
strongly that the relevant government officials have at last dropped the
penny. Child pornography can not really be stopped or the producers and
operators cannot really be identified. So we filter it away so that the
general population believes that something has been done. In the process the
monitoring technology is set up and soon used for other purposes. Then it does
not take much longer until it used for the prosecution of copyright violations
and for controlling critical views. We can also send some love to Deutsche
Telekom and Deutsche Bundesbahn. To me China is soon more secret than Germany.

The possession of child pornography should be decriminalized, and only its
production and distribution should remain a criminal offense. Physical
violence against a person, no matter what age, should be drastically and
severely punished. From puberty onwards, should a person be allowed to make
voluntary decisions about their body and to determine freely with whom they
want to have a voluntary sexual relationship. Drawings, stories and other art
products should never have been criminalized because the mind is free, and
such products have not harmed indivudal humans (I know of a case from New
Zealand where in a house search a diary was found where the person described
their sexual fantasies - among them were even fantasies with minors, and he
was ultimately convicted for writing these descriptions). The whole discussion
about clothed model children on the Internet is totally superfluous. Many
people, mostly poor families, had an additional revenue source through such
Web sites and it provided considerable help against poverty. Where, I ask
kindly, is the difference whether a pedophile masturbates now in front of a
computer, in front of an Otto catalog [a well-known German clothing store] or
thinking about a girl on the beach? That certainly sounds very immoral to
everyone but if one wants to understand the essence of the problem, you have
to finally take on the reality. Everything else is window dressing and stupid
chatter that leads to nothing and completely misses the target. Why do today's
children and teenagers take sexy pictures, sometimes completely naked - even
keenly? Nobody forced them! They don't earn money from it. It is exactly what
I learned during my talks with Eastern European girls involved in such
productions: many had financial interests. However, many did so but also
because was fun and financial aspects had no bearing. And many operators
simply gave cameras to girls. They made the photos without the influence of
adults. The pictures were then published by the operator and the money
divided. There were no victims but partners, even if the partners were minors.

Instead of spending more and more money in irrational censorship, filtering
and witch-hunts for possession of child pornography, this money could be
invested in programs that aim to provide a better future and, above all, a
better quality of life and the necessary education for poor children and young
people. This would already eliminate the families whose motivation is
financial. There will, however, always be the models posing provocatively as
well as a sympathetic families that allow them to do this. In brief:
voluntarily involved children and young people who are having fun - in my
opinion, these are not victims. Those who are violently forced into things
they do not want are the real victims. From puberty onwards, young people
should be allowed to decide about their own feelings and their bodies.

This whole discussion about morality and sexuality is an incredibly stupid
thing to which religions have contributed significantly ... One hears
different theories from various sources. What is actually harmful for children
and adolescents? In the U.S., the sight of a naked human is allegedly harmful
to the poor child. Well, in Germany, the Bravo magazine has for decades
reprinted pictures of naked girls and boys for the purpose of sexual
enlightenment. In Germany, there should therefore be a lot of injured children
and adolescents. When I was child, we went with the school to collect waste
paper. Here we found the most exciting magazines in the wastepaper... I know
very well how this has awakened my interest. On that account, I was really
deeply shocked as a child when I had to go to the butcher and saw how animals
were handled and killed. Until today, this remains a traumatic experience for
me. Today more and more violence is shown freely and at the same time people
are lobbying about sexual self-control. It is allowed for everyone to form an
opinion about the situation. But it is hardly possible to form an objective
view because the access to information is prohibited by the Government. I hope
that in this sense I have - though perhaps sometimes with immoral statements -
shown another side that so far has remainied strictly confidential. I wish
very strongly that I have given enough food for thought. Without radical
rethinking nothing will change.

With kind regards,

Mr. X

Another note: The PCPro article mentioned in the text is available at
http://www.pcpro.co.uk/features/74690/operation-ore-exposed.html

The English-language Wikipedia has a page on the case at:
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Operation_Ore

<i>Thanks to Mr. X for covering these documents, and http://hack.fi/ for
principle translation to English.</i>