"Individuals advanced to higher levels of membership by providing child abuse images that the individual had produced, providing a large number of images, or providing images that had never been seen before." Incentive structure HHS court documents show how users would graduate to more privileged statuses in a distributing scheme to produce more content. RELATED: Homeland Security Data Centers Produce 'Predominantly Useless Information'
RELATED: Don't Ask Chris Rock About Newt Diddy's Getting a Cable Channel And, in many cases, the children being victimized were in obvious, and intentional, pain - even 'in distress and crying,' just as the rules for one area of the bulletin board mandated." Holder told CBS News that "Some of the children featured in these images and videos were just infants. One particular category was entitled 'Super Hardcore,' notes the DOJ release. required members to organize postings based on the type of content. Rules of conduct The Dreamboard website includes rules written in English, Russian, Japanese and Spanish that specify the type and category of child porn that is uploaded to the board. RELATED: Eric Holder Prepares for Contempt Vote with Barbecue
Here's how federal officials say it operated: Put together, the announcements from Holder, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano and separate media reports reveal unsettling allegations about the ring's hierarchy and incentive structure. The operation targeted a private, members-only Internet bulletin board called Dreamboard that, according to Attorney General Eric Holder, "was created and operated to promote pedophilia, and to encourage the sexual abuse of very young children." Federal officials say Dreamboard had an estimated 600 members around the world and that the sweep of Dreamboard constituted the largest prosecution to date of people involved in child pornography. Wednesday, the Departments of Justice and Homeland Security announced the prosecution of 72 people and the arrest of 63 people in a massive international child pornography ring.
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