Idiots.

[toptec]

Spacecat wrote;

I was listening to a news item about a police crackdown on internet child p**n. It was all about tracing downloaders and I suggested that some effort to trace the source wouldn't come amiss.

The answer to this is that for 1 million quid the CEOP can track down 100 downloaders and their paymasters shout from the rooftops how brilliant they are. It would cost the same money to MAYBE track down one Uploader and the paymasters would demand explanations why the CEOP is not doing their jobs properly.

How short sighted is that! It is the same way with Drug suppliers and drug users.

 

[Space cat]

The answer to this is that for 1 million quid the CEOP can track down 100 downloaders and their paymasters shout from the rooftops how brilliant they are. It would cost the same money to MAYBE track down one Uploader and the paymasters would demand explanations why the CEOP is not doing their jobs properly.

How short sighted is that! It is the same way with Drug suppliers and drug users.

I agree, but there's more to this than target driven policing. Joe Public's opinion of drug users may vary between victim and criminal but most - probably all - people would agree that dealers are worse. When it comes to child pornography it seems to me that the users are seen as Evil Perverts whereas the dealers are just common criminals who are "only in it for the money".

 

[Bodgeit and scarper ltd]

and I thought they had just taken there burkas off!

 

[megawatt]

Downloading isn't the offence ... Being in possession is what you will be charged with.

This is why investigations take so long ... The dibble need to do quite a lot of work to secure a conviction and each one costs ££££'s

MW