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Originally Posted by kronas
call me a skeptic but i dont see much of a point in this if the hard drive is 'turned in' whats stopping the person from going and buying another one and i doubt many would come forward who are mentally sick in my view
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The whole point is that it is not just about turning in hard drives that's just one very small aspect of the whole situation. It is nothing like the previous gun amnesties whereby people could hand in the gun completely annonamously and with no questions asked. In this case the handing in of the hard drives and any other material is part of the overall process of individuals comming forward before they are found out. By doing so they may be treated more lieniently than they would have been if they were eventually tracked down and procecuted.
Remember there are still several 1000 people uncertain of whether they were caught by operation Ore and other such operations which came out of that.
By including the surender of HD's as a requirement for more lienient treatment they are trying to preserve information which will assist in the tracking down of other sites and individuals.
It only takes one HD to identify a currently unknown source of child porn which when investigated could lead to many other individuals and other sites. This is why HD's are routinely seized in a whole range of criminal cases as they are part of the trail not just in that case but often in many others too.