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Hip-hop site hosts child porn

Posted on 29 Jun 2009 at 17:44

Child pornography was downloaded from a Swiss hip-hop music website to around 2,300 computers in 78 countries, according to Swiss police.

Jean-Christophe Sauterel, a police spokesman in the Vaud canton of Switzerland, says videos of minors engaged in sexual acts were hidden in a Swiss site where the principal content was "perfectly legal."

Those accessing the illegal material through a portal on the hip-hop page site paid $10 to download one video and $500 for the full collection of 101, with proceeds going to operators in Russia.

"It's through that site, without the owner of the site knowing, that the files were implanted," he claims. "It is the first time in Switzerland that we are confronted with this kind of case."

The investigation, triggered by a tip-off from Interpol, took place between May and July 2008.

Arrests have been made in the US and Poland. The address of the website involved was not made public.

Author: Reuters

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