Re: You got that right

It has never been proven that there are pay porn sites or distribution schemes made by preteens and teens. And their very limitations on ownership and control of financial assets make me believe that they are not more and actually less likely to actually exist than adult-run pay kp sites.

That said...

While no reliable statistics have ever been (or will ever be, imho) released, it is rumoured, and I agree, that the largest producer of new kp in the West are minors themselves. However, they tend to distribute it for free, directly by cellphones or using pre-existing forms of transmission that other people not interested in kp use for other materials.

is this a sign of revolution

Yes, it is.

It's not the money, as I said, I don't consider possible that pay sites run by minors themselves exist. [*]

It's more like "adults can shoot pron, and so can we".

IMO such sites are less about sex than they are about declaring preteens and adolescents as being able to have the same rights as adults, sexual or otherwise.

I agree.

Amateur pron, as opposed to "professional" and "scripted" and "featuring known stars" is more about the assertion of your own body and sexuality - more like the "hey I can do this" behind a video of a school play or game than about any specific content. So yes, it is a form of "hey look what I can do with my [substitute your fave body parts :p]" but not as much because it is directly sexual than because it was supposed to be forbidden.

So should these immoral, indecent, irresponsible little "perverts" desist or persist?

They should persist.

1) We don't only need people in jail or the registry from the law being wrongly applied, because those cases can be isolated. We need people in the jail or the registry who are undeniably "guilty" by the code definition to show that the law itself is garbage.

2) They show that children know about sex, usually more than their parents; and ARE sexual beings, usually more than their parents.

3) They show that they don't need to be abused or coerced in order to learn about sex, perform sexual acts, or shoot the pron of it. And further, that they enjoy all of it.

4) Further, they show that they aren't traumatised by shooting pron. The very few cases that come to the law's attention don't seem to involve any, and they're but the tip of the iceberg.

5) Like Cat NX used to say, we need minors being prosecuted by these laws too. A lot of the public can and likely will be swayed when they see that the laws for Protecting Minors harm minors rather than protect them, and that will be achieved not when "everyone knows a dirty old perv" but when "everyone knows a 12yo who was tried as an adult for shooting themselves"

[*] I have read a reasonable number of cases of one-on-one exchanges, where Minor offered pron of themselves to Adult in exchange for a deposit to kiddie account, to cell time / money, or for specific and rather expensive gifts like some tech device or garment. However, I don't count those, because one-on-one exchanges, while somewhat facilitated by the existence of internet, don't make for a paysite nor do they usually use the same methods and channels of distribution that either adult or kiddie pron usually employ - ie, they are transmitted through personal rather than public means.