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Most homemade pornography ends up on the web
By Dan X. McGraw | Wednesday, October 24, 2012
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A study has found that nearly all homemade pornography ends up on the open Internet within hours of being uploaded after being harvested by so-called parasite websites or by some other means.
The Internet Watch Foundation found 88 percent of homemade pornography ends up on public websites. The online advocacy group tracked more than 10,000 of the 12,000 images from private sites that found its way to public websites within 48 hours of being uploaded.
The images were sometimes harvested from so-called parasite websites. Parasite websites crawl the internet in search of sexual content, and the group found in some cases these sites hacked accounts to gain access to images.
The IWF found 68 parasite websites in their study.
"This research gives an unsettling indication of the number of images and videos on the Internet featuring young people performing sexually explicit acts or posing," said Susie Hargreaves, the CEO of IWF. "It also highlights the problem of control of these images - once an image has been copied onto a parasite website, it will no longer suffice to simply remove the image from the online account."