Pirate games contain links to child porn sites
Links from Pirated software to child pornography
International police organisations are trying to track down the source of a pirate game CD that contains links to child porn sites. One example of the illegal software seized by ECPAT (End Child Pornography and Trafficking) as “a gold-coloured CD and it has a hand-written label, so it's ... clearly a pirate."
Denise Ritchie from ECPAT said "The CD has been identified as made and produced in New Zealand, but that person themselves may have downloaded it unwittingly. You can go to certain sites on the Internet, find out where pirated material is and download it, without being careful about what else it is linked to. It's a matter for police to prove intent, whether someone deliberately set kids up to be enticed or shocked by child pornography links.”
Police forensic expert in computerised child pornography, John Thackray, has identified the site from which the game was initially downloaded and has confirmed that it is directly linked to other sites containing “severe and disturbing images.”
New Zealand Internet service providers had banned all access to the site via their servers, but the wider issue of a global ban has not been resolved, a problem which will crop up time and time again as the Internet’s organic global growth passes through a multitude of policing zones.
"Nine out of 10 of these incidents would be accidental," Denise Ritchie went on."One out of 10 would have been put on as a joke, or to entice or even to cultivate a victim or victims, with a malicious intent to desensitise children that sexual contact with others or with adults is quite acceptable. They might think, and their parents are likely to think, it's the equivalent of 'Let's look inside this Playboy magazine' but we're not even anywhere near the same league as Playboy when you look at what's on the net."
Denise Ritchie from ECPAT said "The CD has been identified as made and produced in New Zealand, but that person themselves may have downloaded it unwittingly. You can go to certain sites on the Internet, find out where pirated material is and download it, without being careful about what else it is linked to. It's a matter for police to prove intent, whether someone deliberately set kids up to be enticed or shocked by child pornography links.”
Police forensic expert in computerised child pornography, John Thackray, has identified the site from which the game was initially downloaded and has confirmed that it is directly linked to other sites containing “severe and disturbing images.”
New Zealand Internet service providers had banned all access to the site via their servers, but the wider issue of a global ban has not been resolved, a problem which will crop up time and time again as the Internet’s organic global growth passes through a multitude of policing zones.
"Nine out of 10 of these incidents would be accidental," Denise Ritchie went on."One out of 10 would have been put on as a joke, or to entice or even to cultivate a victim or victims, with a malicious intent to desensitise children that sexual contact with others or with adults is quite acceptable. They might think, and their parents are likely to think, it's the equivalent of 'Let's look inside this Playboy magazine' but we're not even anywhere near the same league as Playboy when you look at what's on the net."
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