I don't think market forces are what drive the production of CSAM. Rather, it's some weird fetish of child abusers to share their conquests. I'm sure you're aware, but when CP collectors are busted, they often have terabytes upon terabytes of CP.
But that's, I think, tangential - I don't understand pedophilia well enough to say something meaningful here.
Quite funny: looking for some figures, it seems I wasn’t the first one to do so, and that finding anything even remotely reliable isn't easy at all. See
> I'm sure you're aware, but when CP collectors are busted, they often have terabytes upon terabytes of CP.
Always appalled me that there is so much of it out there. FFS.
For some reason, it reminds me of when the French government decided to spy on BitTorrent networks for copyright infringement (HADOPI).
Defense & Interior asked them not to, saying that it would only make their work harder.
That some geeks would create and democratise new tools not to be caught downloading some random blockbuster, or even just out of principle, and both child pornographers & terrorists would gladly adopt them in a heartbeat, because while they weren’t necessarily the type capable of creating such tools, they had historically been shown to be proficient enough to use them.
Quite hilarious, when you think of it. Some kind of reverse "Think of the Children".
We still got HADOPI however, and now any moron has access to and knows how to get a VPN.
If there is no market for it, there might be less incentive to produce any more of it.
Not that I believe we should all be continuously spied by people who merely pinky sweared to do it right and not abuse it.