> The ease of producing and profiting from child pornography has risen tremendously in recent years Have I missed something? Running a porn site with underage

> The ease of producing and profiting from child pornography has risen tremendously in recent years Have I missed something? Running a porn site with underage content and receiving big money from big payment processing systems stopped being an option in the early 2000s after some big busts. Then individuals would try it, and would try to use shady payment sites linked to other crimes. Then child porn, and even traces of past discussions of it, simply disappeared from open web (thanks to Google silently sugarcoating the search results, and hosting and ad businesses being increasingly picky about what they want to see). A typical person won't be able to find any of those producers (apart from obvious scams and honeypots) neither on open web nor on anonymous networks. Heck, even I, having some experience, probably won't be able to find anyone “selling child porn” even if I was told to do so and visit every possible place of discussion. Though I agree that producing all kinds of media with modern technology got easier enormously. A dedicated handheld camera looks like a steam engine today.