it's is not that much easy as it seems to be. Any person sitting in one of the remotest corners of the world can load it on the internet. this is like putting a drop in the ocean. This is not the way it can be stopped and it is ignorant for that attorney to say that it can be. The internet is too vast. It sucks but that is the way it is now. one can't help it???

Action speaks more than the words do. yes it can be done, here not one, but all need the honesty and will to do that. If they have power to stop it, they should use it. any such endeavor is a welcome step coz this is the one area of internet that I feel should be banned. nevertheless, words cannot express what I feel about this subject, but i don't see an end to my disgust or an effective ban either.

@Ted

Easier said than done. though i argue in favor of such move. still i know that i ISPs don't have the power to stop what is posted on the internet. it is difficult to locate them. Once found it is easy to shut them down, but first they must be found. and here the main problem is, lot of them, rather almost all, are disguised, and are discovered via word of mouth. By then they are already established, and the creators have moved on. It has to be a continual surveillance, and that is a hard nut to crack.

with the rising internet uses, the problem is getting wider and hard to stem. the other side of the coin is one can ban things but nothing can be done about human psyche. and as far as i understand, banning things never works, be it drink, drugs or porn. Banning things creates a desire to see or experience them. It simply goes underground and generates more cash for the providers. That's human nature.

oh thanks a lot. the idiots are out of the slumber to find that it goes on under their nose. the F*** What rock have they been under for more than a decade? I think it is more a matter of, now that there is pressure they have decided to act like they care, if they had worked earlier this would have not been a term we might be knowing. but its too late even to cry over the spilt milk.

The sex-related crimes are not new but crimes exist before the internet came into being? If ppl here mean that internet is the culprit to drive the crimes?? I condemn this pusillanimity and say internet does not have the power to turn ordinary people into sex offenders and murderers.Some common sense please. Disturbed Individuals do disturbed things and always will. Banning pornography will serve no purpose whatsoever.

The Internet cannot be purged of child pornography. However, if proper measures are taken, it can certainly be checked to a large extent. The Internet, after all, caters to the good and perverse tastes of us human beings and since the number of perverted people across the world is substantial, we’ll need to check child pornography and once we have done that part, all that we can do it tolerate.
Technology comes with certain disadvantages. With the Internet, this is one of the many disadvantages. But even the many disadvantages are actually negligible compared to the resourcefulness of the World Wide Web and its uniting influence.

not exactly. it is not possible. and do u think a ban will work?? i think not, becoz the creators of the 'nasty' sites are not a kinda people who respect the law anyway. They are organized criminals and blows the rules and curbs to winds. they are very, very difficult to find and stop and mostly not in this country. Besides - whatever method implemented to ban this would be circumvented in short order.. just ask anyone who gets flooded with Spam despite the newest filters.

It is not only extremely difficult but next to impossible to get the internet rid of child porn. What can we possibly do? Suppose if we catch hold of the child porn vendors, buyers and sharers and confiscated all the content, they would again be available the next day. We must realise that we cannot arrest all pedophiles on the net at once and we must also realise that there are thousands of digital copies of every child pornographic material.

Most of child porn stuff is not sold but shared between pedophiles from all over the world including Europe, America and Asia. The favorite way of them to do is through p2p networks like bittorrent etc and there are hundreds of thousands of them. For example download eMule and check our for such stuff and you would find entire servers, thousands of them dedicated to serve child porn. It is not possible for cyber crime detectors to trace who is downloading what from those networks. If an underground server is located and shut a mirror will be activated immediately.

unfortunately the answer is 'no'. this is one of the ill side effects of the internet we have to live with. search for child porn in google, aol, yahoo and you won't get a single link that will redirect you to a download page of child porn. but they exist in millions and every day tens of thousands of gigabyte worth of illegal child porn data is downloaded. arrests are made, but it is not even the tip of an iceberg. much bigger. much sinister. and it is growing.

It is a child's play to get child porn on the net despite strict laws against keeping and trying to access such material. The underground industry is growing and perhaps outgrowing the conventional legal porn industry on the web. The more we do, the less we feel is being done because of the sheer pace at which it is growing.

Can we get our society rid of murderers?
Can we get our society rid of rapists?
Can we get our society rid of robbers?
Can we get our society rid of arsonists?
Can we get our society rid of burglars?

If the answer to the above question is a BIG NO then the answer to "Can we get our society rid of pedophiles?" is a BIG NO as well. As long as there are pedophiles in the society, there would be child sex abuse and child porn images and videos shared. The internet is only a convenient medium because of the anonymity it provides the users. Before the internet such material were traded through federal posts and private couriers.

Well the question IS if we can get rid of this. Then the answer is no. But we can still try to get rid of the problem. Trying is better than nothing. Brian is right, we can’t get rid of something as big as this or murders. I mean it’s already taken root and people will just have to see the moral side of it and know that it is wrong and not do it.

Well sure that sounds simple. But if you add up all those sites it would go into the thousands. You’ve also got home servers and a lot of countries aren’t going to want the US messing with their affairs. Frankly it is possible but I doubt it will happen. It would require EVERYONE to cooperate and that will never happen.

Well the question here is can we get RID of child pornography. There is always going to be pornography on the internet no doubt about it. But child pornography needs to stop but how are we going to stop it when you have people living in places that the US won’t be allowed to touch? All you’d be doing is just pointing out all the places these people can be. Sure you may get a few but in the end it won’t matter, there is still going to be child porn on the internet.

Even to stop it it would require billions of dollars and the funding would have to continue throughout many years and years and you would still have some ”cells” placing this kind of stuff on the internet. I agree it has to stop but I don’t it is able to be completely stopped.

Easier said than done!Child pornography is silently encroaching even the apparently child friendly gaming sites,all the images and photography sites have atleast few sections dedicated to nudity and soft porn which any child can surf and have a dekko! @ Aneez, I hope this time you don’t want to start a controversy yet again! I think its wishful thinking on your part...but once for all I would love to agree with you and fervently pray that whatever you have stated becomes true in the near future!

Yeah but if you relate this to any other circumstance that wouldn’t be good enough.

You can’t just try at some things and this is one of them. In one of my posts here I said at least we can try but to be honest, the only way of helping if to eradicate it.

Succeeding is only catching ever sick person out there that does this stuff. It is wrong and it needs stopped. But I find it hard to believe it will be.

That is unless Aneez is right and there is going to be a total block of it. I all for trying but trying isn’t going to get the job done.

This cannot be stopped till the time the sex maniacs exist in the world. We all very well know that these kinds of people are present in our society and they will never stop this horrible act. It gives them pleasure after all?? Sick!

@ Aneez, i am there with you! And as you have stated...all of us together can make it happen! Would love to know your views on my post
”Behind closed doors”!

@ Aneez, thanx for your valuable comments on my article! Atleast we are not loggerheads at everything...glad to know that we think alike on some issues!:)