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Disturbing find on a torrent site - am I naive?

I was browsing some Google search links to find out what would be involved in tethering my iPhone (using it for wireless data access for a laptop.) Seems that the first thing to do is to jailbreak it - and a link was provided to download the program. Unexpectedly, the link took me to a torrent site to download the jailbreak application.

This torrent site is a very well-known familiarly named torrent site. I browsed a bit just looking around and was curious about one of the torrent file group names. I selected it and there was a "preview" picture displayed for the torrent file content. It was of a young (VERY) girl dressed in a rather provocative outfit. Not nude, but dressed along the lines of something like a naughty nurse Halloween outfit. I backed out of that window and scanned down and found another similar type of file name - sure enough, the preview picture was similar to the other.

These girls obviously weren't of legal age, they weren't teens, I wouldn't even consider them as pre-teens. I mean these pictures were of little girls!

It's very obvious that these pictures are not something that a healthy minded person would have any interest in seeing. I'm not naive, I watch the news and see reports of pedophile arrests, child pornography arrests, etc. I'd always expected these file sharing pedophiles to have their own forums and secret internet chat rooms to exchange email addresses, etc.

I'm just disturbed that these type pictures are available on a torrent site that is very often mentioned on tech boards. Do officials know these files are exchanged so openly?

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Old 04-03-2009, 04:03 PM
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I'm just disturbed that these type pictures are available on a torrent site that is very often mentioned on tech boards. Do officials know these files are exchanged so openly?
Sure. Officials know all about it. But law enforcement has limited resources. And there are no borders on the internet. US law enforcement can't go after people in every country on earth.

If you want to see it, its available, and the chances of getting caught are not high unless you are brazen.

FkUckkers that hurt kids need to be burned at the stake.
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The Torrent sites I have used in the past all had a "Report this Torrent" link for stuff like that.

Make use of it.
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The Torrent sites I have used in the past all had a "Report this Torrent" link for stuff like that.

Make use of it.
Never have seen a torrent site, but this seems sound advice to me...
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All free Torrents sites are flirting with legalities anyway. Supposedly, 50% of their links are to copywritten files. Pirate Bay is in court at the moment & they could very well disappear. In many ways, Torrents & Peer to Peer in general are the last bits of the 'wild west' Internet. And that's good & bad.

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