IP: Kiddie Porn Traders Outed

[Dave Farber <farber@cis.upenn.edu>]

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>http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2561681,00.html
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>Gnutella porn surfers exposed
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>Zeropaid.com wants to keep Gnutella clean by posting a Wall of Shame -- the
>IP addresses of those who attempt to download porn files.
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>By Bob Sullivan, MSNBC
>May 4, 2000 6:09 AM PT
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>Search for child pornography on the Internet, and your IP address just might
>show up on the Zeropaid.com Wall of Shame.
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>The music portal Web site is currently playing a trick on those who are
>looking for pedophilia using the Gnutella file-sharing program. Download one
>of Zeropaid.com's temptingly named images, and the site logs your time of
>download, IP address and domain name - and then posts them on a Web site for
>all to see.
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>The Wall of Shame went into operation April 27, in part as a reaction to an
>MSNBC report indicating file-sharing software Gnutella was being used to
>trade child pornography. The idea is to scare and embarrass would-be
>pedophiles into avoiding Gnutella, thus cleaning up the service.
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>"Most people are using Gnutella to download music. Very few people are using
>it for child porn, and I don't want them on it," said Jorge Gonzalez,
>founder of Zeropaid.com. He thinks the Wall of Shame might be enough of a
>deterrent to scare pedophiles into heading elsewhere.