The use of the Internet facilitates their purposes but this report will deal with the regulation of child pornography on the Internet under various legislation. Child pornography is a serious concern for parents and law authorities and the Internet is unfortunately used by paedophiles to traffic in these. As you will see below there have been recent operations which were followed by successful prosecutions in the UK and the US.

RELEVANT UK LEGISLATION DEALING WITH CHILD PORNOGRAPHY

The offence in section 1 of the 1978 states:

(a) to take, or permit to be taken or to make, any indecent photographs or pseudo-photographs of a child;

(b) to distribute or show such indecent photographs or pseudo-photographs; or ........."

The section 7(7) of the 1978 Act gives a legal definition to the pseudo-photographs by stating:

"(7) "Pseudo-photograph" means an image, whether made by computer-graphics or otherwise howsoever, which appears to be a photograph."

The meaning of photograph and the introduction of "Pseudo-Photographs"

The definition of "photograph" given in section 7(4) of the Protec

"(b) data stored on a computer disc or by other electronic means which is capable of conversion into a photograph."

SurfWatch gives parents and educators the opportunity to limit unwanted material locally without restricting the access rights of other Internet users. No material is actually removed from the Internet or any server. It is simply blocked at each individual computer where SurfWatch is installed. SurfWatch screens Internet newsgroups, World Wide Web, FTP, Gopher, Chat and other services.

Their efforts have led to dozens of arrests nationwide.

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