Re: I wouldn't be surprised if 100Gb really is biggest

Paedestrian, from your experience, would you say that the majority of CP, or all that you came across were home-made (or based), as in not for sale or profit? That's what I've read, anyway on the subject and feel it's fairly common knowledge. However, I do know that trading for money was used in oldschool days i.e. Usenet (still used today, but was a major source of CP trading back-in-the-day). I think, and its been documented, that why CP is or, might be a $xx billion dollar a year industry (stats varies form 20, 60, to 120 up to 600, who knows?) is because of the money spent by the LEAs.

If you do the math, it'll add up. From Privacy Lover:

DECEPTION THREE:
âChild pornography a 20 billion dollar businessâ
The cost of a social worker= $30.000 dollars a year
The cost of a police officer= $40.000 dollars a year
The cost of a police inspector=$75.000 dollars a year
The cost of a politician=$100.000 a year
The cost of a Â âcharity workerâ =$30.000 a year
The cost of child porn conferences=$100.000 a year
The cost of child pornography internet filters=$1.000.000 a year
The cost of bizarre lavish anti child porn budget=+$1.000.000.000

The major costs of child pornography are the agencies and people in charge of going after it. Most child pornography is underground there is no multimillion Hollywood studio producing it as some want you to believe. /End of quote.

Even if websites (not .onion sites) actually sold CP for say, $100 a vid. It just wouldn't add up to the claims of LEAs. And, I'd bet any money that that vids were just ones that were/are from P2P networks i.e. home-made, not made for sale/profit.

Now, from what I've read LC (Lolita City) is just for uploading/downloading pics/vids, not for making a profit of any kind. You also said: âMy experience was that the amount of CP on the internet was TINY compared to the amount of legal, adult porn.â Well, I'd very much agree with that. If you look at the amount of tube sites for adult porn and every website that offer free pics, it would be dumb to say otherwise.