Inernet Crimes

Child pornography in Internet

It is now more than 500 million Internet users and there will definitely be more . One of the most dangerous elements found within the Internet society is its use to display illegal images of child pornography . Many child pornographers choose the Internet for distribution of their material . Millions of bytes of child pornography are offered in the Internet daily . Consumers and manufacturers of child pornography use the Internet to facilitate their activities . Sale and distribution of child pornography , and even the children themselves , has turned into a huge

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In latest years , the supply of child pornography has grown rapidly , and that is thanks to the Internet . As a result , many men have become addicted to it . Not every man who enjoys viewing child porn is a classic pedophile ' But the ease of access to child pornography through the Internet has attracted many men and then captured their interest for further years . Many people suppose that pornography is harmless imagining it has no effect on them or others . The reality , though , is that pornography has extensive destructive consequences . It harms the users themselves , those around them , and those who are photographed and thus abused . This harm is particularly serious in the case of child pornography . There were certainly taken measures by the society to prevent the widespread of child pornography and the present paper discusses the legislative measures , laws developed in order to stop it As the most commonly used communication environment , the Internet couldn 't escape the legal issues that all the others had to face . Legal systems all over the world had to introduce special provisions , in order to deal with the new e-criminals (10

The facts are scary . In 2001 , the pornography industry earned more than 10 billion . That is way more than the money spent on movie tickets and the performing arts combined . It is also revealing to consider the drain on economic productivity caused by pornography because most internet pornography viewing occurs during working hours and at work

Here are only several examples of cases involving people who abused either their own or other children and used them to satisfy their demands in child pornography

- GALVESTON , TX , August 20 , 2004 . A man collected child pornography on his home computer to keep from molesting his own three daughters Timothy L . Bourgeois , 48 , was found guilty and now faces a maximum of 10 years in prison without the possibility of parole

- AUGUSTA , GA , August 14 , 2004 . 41-year-old Darryl Stanley Holley , was arrested for five counts of child pornography after police seized 5 ,000 child pornography images from his home computer

There is a major problem in this subject and it is that the legal definition of child pornography is quite broad , and becoming even broader , that no one in the world has a clear idea precisely what one talks about . As a result , many parents have been put in prison or otherwise harassed for photographing their own children

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