P2P filesharing servers used in huge Spanish child porn ring
Spanish authorities arrested 121 people who were operating a child pron ring in Spain.
Spanish police arrested 121 people in the country’s biggest-ever crackdown on child pornography, seizing discs containing millions of video and photo files shared by a network that distributed them in 75 countries, authorities said Wednesday.
Two of the suspects produced pornographic material themselves using members of their own families, police said in a statement. Those arrested came from all kinds of backgrounds, including pilots, salespeople, porters, taxi drivers and bank employees, it said.
The operators of the ring utilized peer to peer filesharing networks.
Most of the suspects are Spaniards, police said without naming the other nationalities. Police said the detainees used peer-to-peer, or P2P, servers to share at least three download sites.
Spanish authorities said they have arrested more than 1,200 people in connection with child pornography on the Internet in the last five years.
