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Originally Posted by Sociable
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 cqught 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.
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yes im aware of all that i did read the article but i highly doubt a sizeable amount of people will come forward because its a dependancy its like a drug you keep going back for more and your not going to give it up because its not harming you
and you always will think you wont get caught
by offering a chance of an amnesty it will reel some in who are afraid of getting caught by the operations that the police persue but on the whole it wont change much
the current operation proccedure of netting them in the act by luring them in to signing up to websites is the most affective method IMO