By Antone Gonsalves, TechWeb News ![]()
An industry trade group on Monday launched an education site to fight child pornography on peer-to-peer networks, and plans to launch in February tools that would enable the group to send suspected illegal images and video to law enforcement.
The Distributed Computing Industry Association’s P2P PATROL site is the latest effort in the group’s initiative against child pornography, which started in the spring. PATROL stands for Peer-to-Peer Parents and Teens Reach Online.
The site provides information to help visitors identify illegal child pornography from child erotica, which may be offensive, but is not necessarily illegal, Marty Lafferty, chief executive of DCIA said.
“Some content may be objectionable, but it may also be on the (legal) edge,” Lafferty said.
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